The second reason that John Wick comes out ahead of Neo and The Matrix is that sadly, the Matrix fell apart in the third film, The Matrix Revolutions.
While each universe keeps getting bigger, John Wick does it in a way that it’s never overshadows what makes the movies great – John Wick killing and destroying everyone and everything in his way.
In John Wick Chapter 3 – Parabellum the simple story is built upon in easy ways that makes sense. It doesn’t bite off more than it can chew.
It’s a film that really gets lost in the complicated (for an action movie) plot and keeps introducing new characters that overly complicate things as well.