When we were first introduced to John Wick in 2014, we couldn't predict that it would turn into a brilliant piece of work that would redefine the action genre like we've never seen before. This discipline from the filmmakers and Keanu Reeves quickly elevated the genre from what we're used to seeing in our theaters by having meticulously choreographed action sequences with committed actors, filmed beautifully and edited with fewer cuts as possible. However the key to this franchise getting consistently better is how the story continues to add to John Wick's character. The world he exists in is defined by rules that must be followed. Every plot receipt serves as a reaction when rules are broken and everyone must suffer the consequences. On a deeper level, John Wick suffers from being too adherent to these rules that Rob him of his humanity. Despite turning his back on this world to become a normal man, he is denied that existence and everything he does is not as a man in pain but as a man rebelling against the very system that created him, no matter how many he takes with him. Here is proof that gratuitously violent action movies can be a high art when character development and world -building is given equal attention.