The bulletproof suits were willy, but not as silly as him falling 5 floors and not getting killed.
After that, they were no stakes anymore, because you knew anything could go and it would not matter.
Case in point: in the first (second?) movie, he get stabbed once, and it changes the whole rhythm of the film. You are thinking "oh shit, now everything he does will have to be performed with this wound". And the story matches that, his moves are not the same. He has to overcome this problem, and there is a lot of suffering. It makes you care such much about him.
In the latest one, he gets hit by 3 cars and you go "meh".
I did enjoy JW4, but not remotely as much as the first one, where we were counting bullets and it matched the known gun capacity.
Now it's just another dumb action block buster, albeit a superb one.
It's the tragedy of the common because most viewers will be happy with the DBZ effect taking over. So it's a commercial success. But it has lost part of what made the concept special.
People will remember the feeling of seeing JW1 forever, it set a standard. We compare things to it in the same way we compared things to the Terminator, Alien or the Matrix (twice Keanu? Really?).
It created its own category.
JW4 will just fade away.
It's one of the best parts about the series: the protagonist isn't invincible, he's just very good. But when he gets hurt, he actually gets hurt and needs to recover from those injuries (or take drugs to cover the pain).
Edit: it seems a lot of people commenting on the invincibility of John Wick did not actually watch the 4th movie. Spoiler alert: by the final showdown, he's barely conscious and keeps going despite his accumulated injuries solely due to sheer force of will, and ultimately dies of his injuries.
What are you talking about?
He is wolverine in JW4.
He's wearing a suit that is designed to absorb and dissipate kinetic energy. It makes sense that it would help dissipate the kinetic energy of landing on concrete and getting hit by cars.
If you paid attention you noticed that after these impacts, he was significantly slower as a result of the injuries, and was less capable after than he was before. By the final showdown, he's literally struggling to stand, multiple bones are bruised or broken, and he keeps going by sheer force of will.
He is wolverine in JW4.
Literally, no, if you saw the movie all the way to the end. (Spoiler alert: JW dies from his accumulated injuries.)
I still make this mistake after all those years.