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 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.