But "John Wick," with its $20 million production budget, grossed four times that worldwide and kickstarted a successful franchise, the third movie of which — "John Wick: Chapter 3 — Parabellum I love John Wick, but I'm not sure if we really needed four movies, and here's why. Sure, Toy Story 4 wasn’t bad (In fact, it’s pretty good). But, how much better would that series have 5 The Matrix Has A Better Story Than John Wick. The Matrix movies are ambitious to a fault, setting up an entire world that the ambitiously meta The Matrix Resurrections then deconstructed and reinvented years later. While the world-building of the John Wick movies feels more convincing, the plot of The Matrix trilogy and its reboot is less CWox.