Pity the poor villain in this preposterously enjoyable final instalment of this gun-fu series. As ever, snazzily-dressed hero John Wick (Keanu Reeves) has been causing trouble for global secret society the High Table, and the new head of that organisation, the flagrantly highfalutin Marquis de Gramont (Bill Skarsgård), wants John dead.
Unfortunately for the Marquis, all the men capable of killing Wick decide they’d rather keep him alive. That all the best warriors have a heart of gold is what makes the John Wick universe so cosy, with Reeves’ uncannily boyish charisma a crucial ingredient in the mix. Aged 58, the actor sports implausibly smooth skin, lustrous jet-black hair and even sounds young (he yells the word “Yeah!” with the same goof-ball enthusiasm he displayed in Eighties romp Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure).
