Tick tock, time to coldclock: Why John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum is the Swiss luxury watch of action cinema GlobeArts
, the ridiculously titled third entry in the ridiculously conceived Keanu Reeves franchise, I could not stop thinking about Swiss luxury watches. Mostly this was due to the fact that, during a penultimate fight between Reeves’s cool-headed title-character assassin and two soon-to-be-corpses on the top floor of a Manhattan hotel, a huge video billboard can be glimpsed in the background looping the same ad for Carl F. Bucherer timepieces over and over.
series shares more in common with questionably pricey luxury fashion than either party might like to concede. that leaned into the kind of excess that makes no distinction between style and savagery. Nearly every frame offelt like a tableau of contradictions, from the scene where contract killers engaged in a whisper-quiet gunfight in Santiago Calatrava’s sterile Oculus terminal underneath the World Trade Center to the fact that Reeves’s animal-loving hero murdered hundreds of dudes all while clad in slim and natty bespoke suits.
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