Even more unpopular opinion, John Wick 1 is good but not great. What it does have is 2 amazing action sequences. 1 being the home invasion early on and 2 being the entire nightclub sequence from Kevin Nash to Wick walking out the front door. You could add a third if you include the Perkins stuff at the hotel. Nothing after it even comes close to living up to the choreography and style of sequence 2 and the film just kind of peters out.
The second film never even comes close to reaching the peak JW1 reached with sequence 1 or sequence 2 and I don't like the tonal shift the film made to almost full-on video game instead of the mysterious and tacticool stuff from the first film. It's a very different thing. Some people like it, some don't. The climactic action scene in the hall of mirrors was also a letdown.
Sequence 2 from the first film deserves to be in the action film hall of fame though. No question.
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