John Wick is played out too, and more recently so. I’ve seen all of them, including the spin-off series and only the first one needs to exist. I’d much rather have a Bond thing.
I think the John Wick franchise, like the Ghostbusters franchise, had one good movie in it. The first one was excellent, partially because it showed some restraint. They went overboard with the second.
The first felt like it took place in the real world, that among the rest of us there’s this community of high class criminals, the various mafias and the like, who have their own underground infrastructures. They bother with all the code words like “dinner reservation” because there are regular civilians staying at the Continental, who is in good with them all and provides them ground to go to in exchange for not bringing any heat.
The second movie establishes that 100% of society is secretly underground high class criminals, that the real world above it is all a fake, and that nothing about this is actually cool.
John Wick is played out too, and more recently so. I’ve seen all of them, including the spin-off series and only the first one needs to exist. I’d much rather have a Bond thing.
I think the John Wick franchise, like the Ghostbusters franchise, had one good movie in it. The first one was excellent, partially because it showed some restraint. They went overboard with the second.
The first felt like it took place in the real world, that among the rest of us there’s this community of high class criminals, the various mafias and the like, who have their own underground infrastructures. They bother with all the code words like “dinner reservation” because there are regular civilians staying at the Continental, who is in good with them all and provides them ground to go to in exchange for not bringing any heat.
The second movie establishes that 100% of society is secretly underground high class criminals, that the real world above it is all a fake, and that nothing about this is actually cool.
I think JW aged worse over four movies than Bond did over 20.
That falling down the stairs scene was like something from an Austin Powers spoof version.
The first one was great, but I really don’t know what they were thinking with the rest of them.