Favorite John Wick?

I did see the first two movies. I don’t have a favorite because I like them both equally, despite their differences.

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in that order. all 4 are masterpieces and define action movie genre in modern times.

The first one is the tightest. No frills. After that think it's downhill.

Prefer The Equalizer movies.

never seen any of them. I am not into action movies. Are they any good? Or are they like fast and furious or James bond (shallow action only movies)

This. Better just watching Asian movies. It's like a cosplay of those.

Saw the first and second, I think. First one was ridiculous, but somewhat entertaining. 6/10.

Second one sucked. Didn't bother with the rest.

How in the living **** can you compare F&F with James Bond? Well, maybe the later Bond movies are like that, I wouldn't know. If it aint Sean Connery or Roger Moore Bond, **** it.

Anyway, no. The Wick movies aren't especially good. Unless you want to see Keanu Reeves shooting a lot of people, I wouldn't bother. There isn't much of a story.

@Litchie: I haven't seen the very early bond movies, but I have seen most of the ones from the 90s and 2000s (I gave up afterwards)

And they were always the same formulaic story about globe trotting, having casual sex, using gadgets and defeating an enemy that was obviously a bad guy while British intelligence were obviously the good guys.

Anyway, it doesn't seem anything more interesting than fast and furious.

If anything I would say that fast and furious has better set pieces and doesn't have to deal with presenting British intelligence as "the good guys".

Ironically (given the current state of the world and actual perception of them as villains in the franchise) Bond always made it a point not to make the Russians the bad guys.

Barring rando soldier caught up, it's almost always Spectre trying to set Russia/West against each other or someone who has actively betrayed their country.

Like for example Alec Trevelyan (Sean Bean) if bother to follow the plot-line of Goldeneye, his actual motivation against the British government is understandable. Everyone in it are defectors Britain/Russia.

This is repeated again in Skyfall. Silvia has basically been driven mad.

Basically in both cases the British create monsters of their own making.

Oh no, why are there so many votes for part 4? She is childishly naive :)
I really like the first two parts, I consider them something whole.

Just saw Nobody. That was a better Wick movie.

I've seen the second or third with my roommate who's see them all, I don't recall which one though. I thought it was a boring film and kept hoping we were close to it ending... We weren't. :/

Plausibility is always a requirement of my enjoyment of any film.

The Wick films have always pushed it to ridiculous extremes, to the point where I see a trail of 300 bodies in his wake and I end up being pulled out of the experience. The first was the best, but the latter films pushed it much too far. Yeah it’s enjoyable in spectacle, but is so laughably absurd in plausibility I lose interest.

When someone is cutting through guys like butter, it removes any sense of skill because there’s barely any opposition or struggle.

The first one is the best its simple revenge story. The rest while good kinda hampered by politics.

I also think while No.4 is the 2nd best it also jumped the shark when nobody screamed when John killed atleast killed 5 guys then got thrown down few floors during the Nightclub fight.

@Litchie: Nobody is a bad imitation movie mostly due to one factor: the tragic miscasting of Bob Odenkirk.

He’s a great actor but he has no physical presence, his whiny high pitched voice is perfect for Saul Goodman but not a government assassin, and he didn’t have the physical chops for the fight scenes.

Keanu Reeves might be a bad actor but he has a menacing presence and is believable as a preeminent High Table assassin.

I disagree. Bob was a good casting. Also liked his voice, as it made him sound really tired. Which he was supposed to be.

Wick should've died very early in the first movie as no one can dodge bullets. He's basically Superman, which is rather ridiculous. Entertaining perhaps, but extremely silly.

Nobody was somehwat believable, and not Superman. Better movie, imo. I think I would've liked the Wick movies much more when I was a kid. But now that I understand more things, not so much.