Picking Nits
Why Tarasov is left alive at the chop shop; the Commodore 64; the never-ending bullets and coins that never fall out; the 'I'll kill them all' speech needed one more take; John Wick is bad at talking
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- Why did he not kill Tarasov at the beginning after killing everybody else in the chop shop, and what kind of honor is that, when he had just killed 39 people.
- Using a Commodore 64 is shaky, since no 1999 computer would survive being hacked, though it felt purposeful: like the 69 Mustang, which was forgotten for what aged best, the film mixes cell phones with an out-of-time feeling to seem timeless.
- A passion nitpick: he always has more bullets and cartridges in his pockets, then the bigger machine-gun magazines too, and nothing falls out when he rolls around, not even the gold coins, while a normal person's pants burst with wallet, phone and keys; the defense is that a tailored suit creates space where none exists, and a suit that is literally bulletproof could hold extra rounds.
- Forgotten for what aged best: Wick uses dead people's guns instead of reloading during his killing barrage, and he may kill Santino with someone else's gun since he has no rounds left; the lesson is not to brag about duck fat.
- The 'I'll kill them all' speech at the end wanted a little more, a fastball with one more take dialed up ten percent and perhaps another sentence about people coming at him his whole life; another thought the reading was great, and one host, seeing John Wick 3 that day, immediately wanted the third film when this one ended.
- John Wick is good at many things but not talking; he has very few good lines, and 'I'm thinking I'm back' from the first film sounds cool but makes no sense, so he may be a little brain dead with assassin CTE.
- Asked whether assassins can get CTE, the answer is that CTE does not exist in the world of John Wick. — Chris Ryan