John Wick 4 Finally Has A Structure!
The "John Wick" series has always felt... impressive, but not really for me? The stories of these films manage to hit just the right combination of thin and convoluted to keep me at an arm's length. In one sense, a thin story shouldn't be an issue. Fair enough! If the action scenes are really that good (they are), then the movies don't need "plots" or "characters", they only need connective tissue between action scenes. That formula works perfectly well for plenty of great action movies, smart and dumb alike. The thing about stories that take this approach is that they tend to be short and actually simple. The "John Wick" series, on the other hand, has evolved into the type of bloated worldbuilding most at home in spy movies. I don't really know who this stuff is supposed to appeal to besides Reddit - the run times have aggressively jumped up and up (the first film ran under 2 hours, this latest entry clocks in over 2:40), and th...