These have made a surprisingly large and positive impression on the cultural landscape - enough to overcome my usual boredom about movies which are 99% about action and cause me to watch them. And they are good! Keanu is convincing, so are the many other enjoyable actors who bob up (I especially like John Leguizamo), and the action scenes are basically non-stop but in a way where most of the non-direct action bits involve build-up and also flesh out the sense of an intriguing larger world within which this is all taking place (unlike say The Raid, another often held up as an exemplar of its type).
