8 Problems With John Wick No-One Wants To Admit

1. The Action Sequences Have Zero Tension

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Finally, here's the number one problem with John Wick: there's no tension. At all.

The film's action sequences are exciting at first glance since they're directed with smoothness and clarity, with the shaky-cam that's often plagued Hollywood films nowhere to be seen, and the action scenes are often very inventive and nice to look at. That being said, a good action sequence needs to have suspense and danger, which is something entirely absent here.

In every fight scene, John Wick takes on every bad guy with no difficulty whatsoever and is completely indestructible. You could put John Wick in a large, empty room with 200 armed assassins and you'd know perfectly well that he'd still survive with hardly any injuries at all. There are never any stakes and watching the film's well-choreographed martial arts is initially fun but it gets stale remarkably fast.

This isn't to say that the action scenes are bad since they are undeniably very well-made, but they're also arguably very flawed and ensure that the John Wick trilogy is not as thrilling as the hype machine proclaims.

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