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John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023)
If everything is special then nothing is.
Just watched John Wick 4 and jesus, I DID NOT like this movie. It was nearly three hours long but it barely justifies two. The action and stunts are very good but when it's non stop for hours on end, my eyes just glaze over. The story is nonsensical and infuriatingly overly complex. Every single place in these movies is an elaborate hideout with neon lights and candles and racks of shiny guns. Everything is so polished and there are hundreds of henchmen in $1000 suits. You never feel like you're in a real place. A real bar, a real hotel, a real train station. When EVERYTHING is special, NOTHING is.
Apparently every single person in the world is an assassin... there are no normal people in this world. No veterinarians, no grocery store baggers, no police, no teachers. Everyone is a goshdang assassin. That's not interesting!!
Oh there's a special currency these assassins use in this world? When everyone has a gold coin, that's just called currency. Oh there's a special hotel just for assassins? Oh wait, there's one in every country and there's hundreds of people in every lobby. That's just called a hotel.
These movies make the most incredible, jaw dropping, fascinating things mundane.
If everything is special then nothing is.