You're absolutely right.
I don't know if Keanu Reeves just needed some money the last 2-3 years, but I felt that both Matrix Resurrections and John Wick: Chapter 4 were both subpar for what's expected of his level of action and "Neo-noir" movies. Matrix Resurrections would make any man want to go gay and John Wick 4 just lost the essence of what the movies were originally meant to be (or so I thought). Obviously, between the aforementioned, Matrix Resurrections sucked a massive rubbery one, but John Wick 4 was also a sad way to put the Wick franchise to an end.
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I can’t begrudge the director’s success, because he puts a lot of money in the writers’, actors’, and stuntfolks’ (including my son's) pockets. Look at the box office for each Wick. Up and Up and Up.
However, they become ever more an endurance contest between holding my interest and my sore ass from sitting.
If the director asked me for my opinion, I’d say look to Enter The Dragon: 102 minutes of dynamite, no fat, and some good laughs throughout. “I mean here on the island!”
Ironically, the director’s erstwhile partner, David Leitch, was going to make a remake of ETD.
BTW, Wick 5 is in the pipeline.