The vast majority love these movies absolutely, but I can't help but feel like some of the more pretentious YouTube reviewers feel these movies are mindless in comparison to something like mission impossible. 4 months later and I honestly stillbelieve John wick chapter 4 is one of the greatest action films ever made and as much as I really loved Dead Reckoning part 1, I still think chapter 4 edges it out for best action film of the year. To me, chapter 4 was the culmination of everything Chad and the team put their soul into. Everything in this movie is perfected and while I get why some prefer the first movie, this is easily the Fallout or Fury Road of the franchise for me. Plus, it felt like a great ending to Johns story if they choose for it to be that. I see some people question the logic of these movies, but like, I can do that with any film.
Even the simple fight scene between Caine and wick is above most fight scenes I've seen in recent years.
I think it's in your head. I'm not saying some people don't dislike this series but by far its such a small minority that it's not worth getting bothered with it. I don't get why care especially in this case when JW is very very well loved and the love by far outweighs the hate. Not everyone is going to like every movie
And John Wick
is mindless I don't get how anyone can argue this. I love this series to death, but it's not a deep series...and it's not trying to be. Both series are great, but I would say it's different than Mission Impossible (not that that's incredibly deep either) in that regard. It's all about preference. The John Wick series is a bunch of great action set pieces held together by a flimsy script that's elevated by some fun performances and really cool world building. That's not a knock against it. It's balls to the wall action done very well. No one is going to John Wick for the dialogue, the pathos, an interesting message, or anything deep. At least I havent seen or heard of that
I would call a lot of balls to the wall action films "mindless". They're not made for you to think, they're not trying to impress you with the script. They're trying to impress you with the action set pieces and scenes.
That doesn't mean they're bad if they still deliver the action like John Wick, a lot of older Stallone/Van Damme/Snipes/Arnold movies, The Raid, some John Woo movies, Fast 5-8, most eastern Asian martial arts movies, etc. "Mindless" in the case of action movies doesn't mean devoid of talent or skill to make.
Now if someone is saying making these movies doesn't require talent to make or that the crew making them are "talentless" (which I've seen so many people do with the Fast series) I have a problem with that because that's just insulting. Regardless of what you think of John Wick, the Fast series, etc. the amount of effort these kinda movies clearly put into practical effects, fight choreography, etc. takes a lot of talent. I get not liking them though but using "talentless" is just being disingenuous and kinda a jerk imo
