The John Wick movies are entertaining in that they can usually be counted on for some very inventively staged action scenes, but I have to admit I find them a little hard to take seriously. These "World's best assassin must come out of retirement because all the other assassins in the assassin guild are out to assassinate him, so he has to assassinate them first" type movies are usually a bit over the top, but this franchise takes it to a whole new level. In fights, Wick never seems to miss and the bad guys never seem to hit him. Law enforcement never seems to notice the trail of bodies in his wake. Still, as long as I think of these movies as live action cartoons, I can enjoy them - I'll definitely check out the fourth installment.
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Just think of them as the original A-Team series with CGI. Peppard and Company sprayed bullets all over the place, too! Yet, in four years on NBC, they never fatally hit anything, either.
"Still, as long as I think of these movies as live action cartoons, I can enjoy them..."
Some might consider that an insult to cartoons.
Interesting match, now I'm thinking how Krypto will communicate his no kill code to Wick.
By melting everybody's guns with his heat vision (JW's included)?
@Daviticus: Especially the "Terror Island" episode of the original Jonny Quest series.*
*Race Bannon vs. an entire Chinese Communist garrison!
Talk about "left-field" match-ups! I have zero interest in John Wick, but I'd want to look through this story just to find out how on God's green earth Krypto got connected to him. There aren't many characters who would be further away from John Wick (though Ambush Bug, Freakazoid, The Tick, and Duck Dodgers do come to mind).
Bob, John Wick loves dogs. The first movie is him getting revenge on a gang that killed his new puppy.
I think the John Wick movies take place on the original Earth-3, with debts and favors being how order is maintained as established later in comics.
@Bob & Ross: That's right The puppy, of course, being a final gift to John from the wife he had just lost to cancer (and for of love of whom he had--even if only briefly--retired from contract killing).
Actually, there were five deaths in the series, though only one onscreen.
if Krtypto has human like intelligence, would that affect John as well?
@Ross: Your explanation makes sense... disappointingly so.
To make up for that disappointment, I'd be happy to see him team up with the Road Rovers (or at least Muzzle).
Or, even better, John Wick vs. Dogpool (an anthropomorphic canine version of Deadpool)!
@Anon850: Oh, please, no. Ross forbid!
Ross, how about a cover in which somebody is trying to exchange a captive Krypto (with the Collector?) for something else of value? It could use a prospective title that's been floating around in my head for months...
'Krypto-currency'.
This just in: I went to see the war drama "Devotion," earlier today.
The scenes for coming attractions included the first trailers I've seen for "John Wick 4" (due circa March 2023)!
@Anon1135: I did, too, finally. And I literally cannot wait for JW to turn The Table! :-)
P.S. @ Giluio: proves my point all the more. :-)
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