Explosive Third JOHN WICK 3 Trailer Stars Keanu Reeves, Halle Berry And Ian McShane

JOHN WICK 3 opens in theaters May 17 and today, Lionsgate has released the third trailer for the upcoming film.

In this third installment of the adrenaline-fueled action franchise, super-assassin John Wick (Keanu Reeves) returns with a $14 million price tag on his head and an army of bounty-hunting killers on his trail. After killing a member of the shadowy international assassin’s guild, the High Table, John Wick is excommunicado, but the world’s most ruthless hit men and women await his every turn.

From director Chad Stahelski, the film stars Keanu Reeves, Halle Berry, Laurence Fishburne, Mark Dacascos, Asia Kate Dillon, Lance Reddick, Saïd Taghmaoui, Jerome Flynn, Jason Mantzoukas, Tobias Segal, Boban Marjanovic, with Anjelica Huston, and Ian McShane.

“All of this for what? A puppy?”.
“It wasn’t just a puppy.”

The last words of the trailer for John Wick III pretty much sum up the trilogy. Keanu Reeves is back as John Wick, retired assassin extraordinaire, a man of such lethal prowess as to be revered and admired in this parallel, crazy world. From the looks of it, this third installment has all of the things that made the first two great, plus Halle Berry, AND ninjas on motorcycles. Lawrence Fishburne also reprises his role (good to see these two together again in a non-Matrix movie). The violence has been dialed up to 11, and the fight scenes in the trailer seem even better than that first two movies. It will be a great Friday night popcorn binge kind of movie, that’s for sure.

It’s hard to call John Wick a hero in the conventional sense, since he was…you know, a hitman.  He gave it up to be with the love of his life, and as is explained to us in the first movie, he was given an impossible job in order to win his freedom, and he did so in such a spectacular fashion that even the crime boss who sent him recalls the errand with awe for the man who essentially insured the rise of his empire that night by killing all of the rivals.  And then, of course, after the wife dies (shown in flashbacks in the first movie), he receives a puppy that she had arranged for him to get upon her death, to keep his heart from hardening. And then, in an act of greed and stupidity, a punk breaks into Wick’s house, to steal his car keys for the sweet car, beating up Wick, and killing the puppy, setting off a Hellstorm of bullets and death that has lasted 3 movies now.  The first two take place over the course of a couple of days, and from what we can tell in this trailer for the third movie, the timetable picks up minutes after the second movie ends.

A glorious ballet of violence and destruction, and to keep it up, John Wick only needs one thing:

“Guns.  LOTS of guns.”

I’ll be in line to see it as soon as it’s possible to do so.

By Marc Butterfield