The bottom line is, you can simplify almost anything to make it seem like nothing if you want.
Some things genuinely do not have a lot there, and some do. Rocky is the action version of Jessica Alba's Honey. Youngster against adversity but achieves success in the end. That's pretty much all it is.
But to say something like The Matrix is nothing but "Fighting the bad guys and then winning.", you'd obviously be wrong. You have to look at what is AIMED at achieving, and what's actually achieved.
I personally didn't like any of the Lord of the Rings movies. Bored me to utter death.
-AC