![]() John Wick was forced to kill a woman he really didn’t want to, so opts to do it in a respectful manner. Slamming the car in reverse, John Wick quickly catches up to him, then pulls a 180° so the bonnet smashes him and sends him toppling through the air and into a steel pole. The victim here had already been injured when John Wick rammed him with his car, before he tried to stagger away. The sequel kicked off with a bunch of lovely vehicular action, with this being the very best bit. ![]() Although it seems like it’d be easier to shoot directly through this dude’s face, John Wick goes for a more stylistic approach by reaching down and pointing the pistol back upwards in a sort of uppercut motion, perhaps to make sure the blood splatter is more in frame. Here John Wick takes out two guys at close range with several shots, but the final shot to a man whose wrist he’s holding is particularly good. He then brings it back, blade up, bringing an ugly torrent of blood with it. After slowing the guy down with a shot to the shoulder, John Wick wrestles with him a little before thrusting a knife-carrying arm through his legs from behind. Just before this guy has a blade rammed into his chest to finish him off, John Wick gives him the kind of reach-around no one ever wants. But he pauses to let the ladies escape, because he’s a gentleman, too. He gets up in there regulating viciously, blasting the baddies and torching their riches. The church scene in John Wick has the titular character at his most Christ-like, when he finds the Russian mob desecrating a church. I think the one time in the gospel he gets proper pissed is when he finds a temple being used by traders and gamblers, so smashes the place up. You know who was a chill bro? Jesus Christ. The last thing he says to the man before killing him is “you killed my dog”, then, as the victim is spluttering water with his final breaths, he kind of gargles “fuck you” as a reply. John Wick drowning a bloke in a basin might not sound like a stunning death, but it’s the dialogue that makes this one great. Holding him in a leg lock, John Wick changes mags on the semi-automatic rifle he’s using before using it to take out two approaching assailants, standing, finishing off the guy he was just holding with a point blank shot to the head – then finishing off two other nearby dudes with two shots for each in rapid succession. After a bit of a fist fight with a balaclava-clad bad man, John Wick positions him on a kitchen bench face-up with his head sticking over the side-then bashes his head down, fatally rupturing his spine.Īfter throwing a fella to the ground when he got too close in the catacombs, John Wick is fired upon by some other guys, so rolls the first guy around to be used as a human shield. This one is pretty silly, but it’s a great example of a simple sound effect and subtle digital effect put to good use. For extreme action movie nerdery, a hilarious collection of statistical data on ever single one of those 205 kills was put together by George Hatzis, who painstakingly created infographics for John Wick and John Wick 2.īefore we marvel at all the beautifully rendered, inventive violence of the third movie, here’s my top 20 kills from John Wick and John Wick 2. The third movie has been promised to come with the highest body count of the franchise yet, which means it’ll top the 77 kills of the first film and 128 of the second. If you want the killingest action event of 2019, you definitely want John Wick 3: Parabellum. If you want fun, fantastical on-screen murder constructed by virtuoso action directors using long takes and wide shots, you want John Wick. If you want a ridiculously over-the-top cinematic killfest, you want John Wick. That was a silly claim-not because “killingest” is a not even an actual word, but because that movie wasn’t a John Wick movie. Recently a trailer for a film called it the “biggest, baddest, killingest action event of the year”.
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