The other thing to is there are SO many occasions where the grunts that fight John could have killed him if they really wanted to. Instead, it's like there are unwritten combat rule assignments where it's like they have "no, everyone is supposed to use only knives and hand-to-hand in this fight" but then it'll be a "okay, now it's all good for everyone to use guns in this fight" and then it'll be a "only, fists and kicks only for this fight" but there's no indication of when it switches over. But each time, John and the henchmen he fights just go along with it. All it would take is for one gun-wielding dude to show up when John has his hands full with knives and he'd be a goner with a bang. And there's plenty of occasions where John is on the ground and half a second from getting finished off, but they let him get back on his feet again. I don't get why there's this sense of combative honor in a society like this. In any video game, if there's a bad guy I'm fighting on the ground, like hell I'm letting him get back up.

Plus those grunts, man, so many of them make such stupid, fatal mistakes. Oh yeah, go right out in the open rather than take cover or actually use the surrounding environment. Ambushing John totally isn't allowed here. And sure, waste your time and lose your window of opportunity at killing John just because you wanted to do a fancy trick with your knife just before you get pulverized in the face. Totally top league assassin material there. And sure, fire your guns on full auto rather than actually using aim and controlled burst fire so you're hitting something other than air.

Yeah, good movies, but there are plenty of occasions where your eyes are going to roll. But I guess they need to make the henchmen pretty incompetent, otherwise John realistically wouldn't last five minutes.