re: Will the John Wick trilogy end up being better than the Matrix trilogy?

I get what you're saying, but every trilogy has the potential to go off the rails if the writers/directors try to do too much with the story like the Wachowskis did with the Matrix trilogy.

John Wick could easily go off the rails if the wirter and directors lose focus.

However, I have a feeling (considering the directors' backgrounds) that they will make a trilogy that is just as focused as their action sequences...which would be incredible! I think that the directors are probably smart enough to realize where the Matrix went wrong, especially since they worked on the Matrix trilogy with Keanu Reeves.

The way I look at it, the directors could have been poorly influenced by their time on the Matrix sets to make a John Wick movie that tried too hard to be something bigger.

But they didn't. They made an extremely focused John Wick movie that is (in my opinion) a perfect action movie.

That's very telling. These two directors are a product of the extremely large and flamboyant Matrix world yet they created a simple world that is the exact opposite of the Matrix world - they created a focused world full of possibility.

They could've easily went off the deep end and they didn't.

I think that's a good sign.