Quite. It's interesting because in the first film he wins a fight against an old man who sacrifices himself, in the second there's an unconvincing victory over his barely trained son, and in the third he gets beaten by the same son who seems to be mostly self taught to complete his 'training' so when he dispatched a man with a brutal force slam into the ceiling my inner self was cheering. The figure of terror was finally a genuine figure of terror.