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Body count 116; Keanu trained three months in judo, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, marksmanship and driving and did 95% of the stunts; the Rome DJ is La Casovania (as transcribed), who scored both films; the back tattoo means fortune favors the brave; 'So I guess you have a choice' echoes the Matrix films; the dog is an American bully; Common has played a contract killer four times; the religious vocabulary; Winston's 11111 order matches JFK's executive order; the Bowery King as the Motel 6 to the Continental's five-star
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- The body count is put at 116, though it is unclear how anyone counts, since karate chops to the neck leave people down but not obviously dead; the working assumption is that everyone who comes into contact with him dies, which prompts a Game of Thrones aside about Jon Snow's Valyrian sword.
- Keanu trained for three months in judo, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, marksmanship and driving and did 95% of the stunts; the DJ at the Rome party is La Casovania (as transcribed), a favorite who wrote music for both films; the Latin tattooed on his back, 'fortis fortuna adio vet' (as transcribed), means fortune favors the brave, and Keanu's 'So I guess you have a choice' to Fishburne echoes a constant theme of their Matrix trilogy, which one host is not in on.
- The dog is an American bully, similar to the Staffordshire bull terrier; Common has played a contract killer four times, including Run All Night in 2015, Smoking Aces and Wanted.
- The film is full of religious and biblical terminology: Santino means the little saint, there is a stabbing of the devil in the back, a descent into hell and an excommunicado, and the assassins play like a chivalrous Knights Templar brotherhood.
- Winston's order of 11111 at the end is the same number as JFK's June 1963 executive order on obstructions of justice in Alabama, five months before his assassination, which leads to jokes about revealing who killed JFK on minute 48 of a John Wick pod and a request to finally do JFK, perhaps in season four.
- The director explained the homeless network as a sub-world: if the Continental is the five-star where rich assassins go, there had to be a Motel 6, which became Fishburne's people.