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John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum Film Review

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The Art Of Action  As much as the superhero genre, specifically the Marvel strain of films, have rather saturated audiences with its abundance of choreographed heroics, the action genre is a category of features which was always morphed into many different styles; depending on the contextual circumstance. Indeed, Whereas the aftermath of the Second World War inherently changed film-makers at the time to depict battles fought by the brave and noble, films such as Cornelius Ryan's The Longest Day or J. Lee Thompson's The Guns of Navarone , and how these films in return   led to the spy genre seen throughout the James Bond centric films of the 60's, it's fathomable to perceive just how much the action genre has changed since it's arguable inception from the very beginning of cinema. Such change is evident through Chad Stahelski's acclaimed John Wick series of films which purposefully takes the choreographed stylisation of the Hong Kong 'Heroic Bloodshed