John Wick 3 (5 Stars)

The John Wick films are growing on me. While watching "John Wick 3" today I was stunned by the beauty of the scenes, inside and outside. It's a bizarre world, inhabited by bizarre characters. The most bizarre to me are the women in the control room. They're all exquisitely dressed, and they're all covered with tattoos. They use retro computers, leftovers from the 1980's, and they have rotary phones.

It's a world full of rules. People can love one another or be best friends, but they kill one another if the rules require it. Everything is determined by the High Table, a shadowy group of powerful people. It's not right to call them gangsters. They live by a different code to normal people like you and me. They aren't without morals, they just have different morals.

There's one thing I didn't pick up when I watched this film in the cinema. We're told John Wick's real name for the first time. His birth name is Jardani Jonovich, and he's a Belarusian. (The word can also be spelt Belorussian, depending on how the Russian name is transliterated). That's his nationality, but it's possible that he's a gypsy. The film throws the viewer clues, but it doesn't tell us everything.

Ian McShane, who plays Winston, the manager of the Continental Hotel in New York, is coolness and calm in person. He's not a fighter, unlike the others who serve the High Table, but he doesn't lack self-confidence when surrounded by others stronger than himself. He's confident in his position of authority, even when he's threatened with execution.

And the dog? Well, everyone loves a pitbull.

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