Plot
Less than an hour after the events of the second film, John Wick is now a marked man on the run in Manhattan. Before he is labeled "excommunicado" as a result of his unauthorized killing of High Table member Santino D'Antonio inside the New York Continental, Wick travels to the New York Public Library and retrieves two concealed items – a "marker" medallion and a crucifix – but is injured following a fight with a giant assassin named Ernest. Wick seeks medical treatment from an underworld doctor, but his excommunicado begins before the doctor can finish. Wick finishes patching his injury and shoots the doctor to protect him from the High Table, but John is found by a gang whom he kills in an antique weaponry store.
John meets with the Director, the head of the Ruska Roma. John presents the crucifix and requests her help in arranging safe passage to Casablanca. The Director reluctantly helps, as John is a former protégé and is from Belarus, knowing that this act will violate her peace treaty with the High Table. An Adjudicator of the High Table meets with Winston, the manager of the New York Continental, and the Bowery King, the leader of a network of vagrants. The Adjudicator punishes both for helping John, giving them seven days to resign their positions, and hires Zero, a Japanese ninja. Zero and his students find the Director, slaughtering her guards and stabbing her hands as punishment for helping John.
In Casablanca, John meets Sofia, a former friend and the manager of the Moroccan Continental. John presents the marker she owes him for aiding her daughter to be directed to the Elder, the only person above the High Table. Sofia takes John to Berrada, her former boss, who tells John he may find the Elder by wandering through the desert until he cannot walk any longer. In exchange, Berrada asks for one of Sofia's dogs. When Sofia refuses, he shoots the dog, which is saved by a bullet-proof vest. In retaliation, Sofia tries to kill Berrada but she only wounds him at John's warning. The two fight their way out of the kasbah and drive into the desert, where she leaves him.
The Adjudicator and Zero confront the Bowery King, who refuses to abdicate his position. Zero's students slaughter almost all of his henchmen. As penance for helping John, Zero cuts the Bowery King seven times with a wakizashi.
Collapsing in the desert, John is brought to the Elder and states that he is desperate to live to "earn" the memory of the love he once had with his wife. The Elder agrees to forgive Wick on condition that he assassinates Winston and keeps working for the High Table until his death. To show his commitment, John severs his ring finger and offers his wedding ring to the Elder. John returns to New York City and is attacked by Zero and his students, before reaching the protection of the Continental. John meets with Winston, who encourages John not to die as a killer but as a man who loved and was loved by his wife.
The Adjudicator arrives, but Winston has no intention of giving up his office and John refuses to kill him, leading the Adjudicator to "deconsecrate" the NY Continental, revoking its "neutral ground" status. The Adjudicator notifies Zero and sends heavily armed and armored enforcers to kill John and Winston. Winston decides to defend the hotel by furnishing John with weapons and the assistance of Charon and his staff. After killing the enforcers, John is ambushed by Zero and his students, and John proceeds to kill all but two students who were respectful towards him. Eventually John confronts and fatally wounds Zero.
The Adjudicator agrees to a parley with Winston, who explains his rebellion as a "show of strength" and offers fealty to the High Table. After John arrives, the Adjudicator questions what should be done with him. Winston shoots John repeatedly, leading him to fall from the roof of the hotel. The Continental is "reconsecrated," but the Adjudicator informs Winston that John's body has disappeared, and that he remains a threat to them both. A seriously injured John and his dog are delivered to a now heavily scarred Bowery King, who states that he is really pissed off at the High Table and asks John if he is too. The film ends with John replying "Yeah."
Cast
- Keanu Reeves as John Wick
- Halle Berry as Sofia, an ex-assassin, former friend of John and the manager of the Continental Hotel in Casablanca.
- Ian McShane as Winston
- Laurence Fishburne as the Bowery King
- Mark Dacascos as Zero
- Asia Kate Dillon as the Adjudicator
- Lance Reddick as Charon, the concierge at the Continental Hotel in New York
- Tobias Segal as Earl
- Anjelica Huston as the Director
- Saïd Taghmaoui as the Elder
- Jerome Flynn as Berrada
- Randall Duk Kim as the Doctor. Duk Kim reprised his role from the first film.
- Margaret Daly as Operator
- Robin Lord Taylor as Administrator
- Susan Blommaert as Librarian
- Jason Mantzoukas as Tick Tock Man, one of the Bowery King's men
- Cecep Arif Rahman as Shinobi #1, one of Zero's pupils
- Yayan Ruhian as Shinobi #2, another of Zero's pupils
- Tiger Chen as Triad
- Boban Marjanović as Ernest
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