John Wick 3 exploded into theaters with an updated arsenal of novel, kinetic action sequences, but beneath the mayhem, director Chad Stahelski peppered this film, much more so than the two prior entries, with a salvo of homages to other films from Rocky to The Raid, inking a blood soaked love letter to his cinematic inspirations. Our panel of reference assassins will defy the High Table and expose the litany of visual, audio, and narrative allusions to classic cinema that add impact to Parabellum.
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