Somehow The Matrix has returned - Matrix Resurrections Review 

When they introduced the friendly faction of machines and explained how they settled their differences, I remember thinking to myself that is so fascinating that I'm surprised that's not the subject of this movie. It's very much a film in search of a conflict at times. Kind of the movie equivalent of booting up a video game you already beat and wrapping up some loose end side quests.

The first 1/3 of the movie had me a little excited to see what was to come. But then they played it safe. No stakes, no drama, one big happy ending.

The Matrix Ressurections was without a shadow of a doubt a movie I have seen.

"A bunch of interesting ideas but not tied together real well" is probably a good description of much of the Wachowskis' filmography.

Regarding Hugo Weaving, they wanted him to reprise the role and he was keen as mustard to do it, but their schedules conflicted.

Brings new meaning to "They fly now!"

Within the first half hour of the movie, a character literally says: "Warner Bros. forced us to make a sequel", which tells you all you need to know about how interested the director and actors were to come back to the franchise.

I pirated this movie and still want my money back.

Chistina Ricci's character basically got cut out of the movie, she was the market researcher who is literally in for like 30 seconds yet she was still one of the top credits in the film. I'm guessing there was way more satire in it at some point and it was either cut for time or didn't work.

The one part I liked about NPH's character was they at least explained why they basically needed to cause stress for the humans because it increased power output, which explains things like social media and people being attached to their phones...but the fact that that no machine before him figured that out when, machines are logical so clearly they would have experimented to figure out ways to increase output earlier. It kind of is a microcosm of the whole movie, some really good ideas on the surface that just aren't fully realized in the end. There is a lot here, it just wasn't executed well enough.

I think the thing about CGI isn't that it's just getting better (though it certainly is), it's that a higher and higher percentage of movies are CGI. There's less incongruity between a digital element (say, nano-tech Iron Man) and the environment around it when that environment is largely, if not entirely, digital.

A certain aesthetic to the original Matrix was lost over the trilogy, and totally absent now. The cars, the tech, the phones, everything felt timeless and built the world up. Reloaded was just latex and Chrysler concept cars.

"I would like it more if it was just board meetings" a quote for the ages

The thing with the Matrix movies is you can literally reboot it as many times as you want as still have prior movies be canon. Even the first 3 matrix movies stated that they were in the 5th (or whatever) version of the matrix. So you can keep rebooting over and over and just have the reboots be a part of the story and lore

Imagine Keanu Reeves and Hugo Weaving, partners at the company, each has their own story strand of questioning their reality/learning who they are, and neither of them are sure how much the other one knows. Tension crescendos into an action set piece that ends in Neo being pulled out of the matrix by the new crew to save his life. Then Agent Smith gets a B plot similar to the motivation they gave him - to kill the Analyst to prevent another reboot, whilst the A plot follows Neo and his new rogue crew on a Trinity rescue mission. The plotlines intersect at the finale with a huge kung fu fight, three on one, Smith, Neo, and Trinity against the Analyst. What happens to Smith at the end? Idk, leave it open.

I think they could’ve really gone further with Morpheus and that moment where he’s like “hold up u made me just to be locked in a program?” And that theme of creator vs creation and neo realizes he’s sorta the same as the machines in that regard

Making the people jump out the windows to attack them was pretty sick ngl

I liked it more than you guys did, but I wish they leaned harder into the premise of the first act. I wish this was one of those movies that really made you question what's real and what isn't / is he going crazy or is it actually happening - then in the 3rd act you go hard into the Matrix and see Tom (maybe as an insane god) fulfill the promise of 'the one' and actually "do anything he wants" besides really kind of plain superpowers (speed, strength, flying). P.S. If you catch it, they actually don't trap Neo with just little coffees - but also the shop with really good noodles. They know him well.

Should have been called "The Matrix 4: A Movie About How Cool The Matrix 1,2&3 Were."

honestly the whole movie was pretty bloodless and felt like there was no stakes really.

Keanu Reeves returns to play John Wick impersonating a computer hacker.

I have no idea why Bugs would not have justifiably investigated Thomas Anderson, the creator of a video game trilogy detailing things literally no one else could know. Why this wasn't the independent variable to influence said investigation as opposed to one's fucking "DSI" is absolutely infuriating.

I found the through line on Matrix Resurrections to be about how the things that brought us joy, fame, success in the past can turn into our nightmares, and we can become trapped by those thoughts & feelings if we allow those things to consume us. I believe it’s a reflection of Lana Wachowski journey since the release of the original film.

I am reminded of the old Roger Ebert line - "Is this movie more interesting than footage of these same actors drinking coffee and talking?" If not, probably should've filmed that instead, I reckon.

The opening sequence wasn’t in “the game”. They explained the concept of what “modals” are which is where the opening sequence occurs

That opening takes place in a modal Neo made at some point shortly before the start of the movie. A modal is just a sandbox environment that's separate from production code in real life. In the film, it's implied that the modal is a mix of the game and the old matrix code that Neo wrote. It is also suggested that Neo ran the modal in a loop, which appears to be Lana's way of saying it was also machine learning training. That's backed up by new Morpheus talking about learning and growing from the Agent Smith and Morpheus sides of himself. So since all of that took place in the modal it can be assumed that Neo changed the looks of everyone else inside of it to help the new Morpheus grow. That would also be why when Neo is shown images from his game they look like the old movies because that's production code.

A Matrix 4 with a new director and no (or very few) returning actors involved would just be The Force Awakens with extra steps.

The first act was so interesting to me, the idea of a matrix within a matrix, and having neo be the creator of this secondary matrix was something that I thought was gonna be important. Tbh the plot should have delved into this, and Neo should have been revealed to be the architect.

The modal at the beginning is not the game trilogy that he made. The live action shots we see later on are the game franchise. That's why Tiffany thinks Trinity looks like her and her bot family laugh it off. For ease of explanation here I'm going to refer to the Matrix from the first trilogy as Version 6 and the Matrix in Resurrection as Version 7. While inside V7, Thomas Anderson is working at a game studio called Deus Machina and they are producing a game called Binary. In his spare time, he works on his own little side projects which he builds apparently using the code that was used to build V6. Since he was the One and could manipulate V6 at will, it makes sense that he is well versed in coding 'modals' in V6 code. He produces these reality loops which are used to train the artificial intelligence that he's creating inside this code. The modal we see at the start of the game is used to train the ai creation that is a mix of Agent Smith and Morpheus. However, because the project is also inside the Matrix V7 (think of it like a game inside a game, like being able to NES games in Animal Crossing) the people in the real world are able to see his sections of 'old code' when looking at V7 and are able to enter it, since it's made of Matrix V6 code and can handle the minds of humans in the same way as V7. The characters in that modal are not the same characters necessarily as the characters in his Matrix games. The modal is just an experiment. Bugs essentially cuts the program of Morpheus/Smith from the modal and pastes it into V7, which is why the program goes missing from the modal and Thomas sees the error message on his computer where he was running the modal. Remnants from the last Matrix versions always linger, in much the same way as in the original trilogy, Version 1 had become their Heaven, and Version 2 had become their Hell. Version 6 seems to now be a game engine inside Version 7.

I thought Neil Patrick Harris felt really out of place in this movie

I like the idea that the Matrix scene in Space Jam 2 with the Granny was actually just another "modal" that Neo made as a video game designer in this new Matrix world. Really adds a lot of depth to this enigmatic world theyve built.

Jessica henwick always seems to have good performances but in bad shows/films. Would love to see her in something actually good

They also likely have more power in this Matrix because this one was completely designed around harnessing THEIR power specifically, while the other Matrix was trying to inhibit that power

The first 30 minutes almost set up an interesting story, then it became a matrix movie

Who else would’ve been happy if they had done a prequel instead? Showing how the war began first place? How the technology evolved throughout the years. How are humans first adjusted to the matrix.

The slap in the face from the after screen credits really hurt

Honestly, I think many matrix fans just try to see this movie as something it isn't. And I say this as a matrix fan myself, I even like the third movie. Yes, the philosophy aspect was a huge part of the matrix franchise, but I think this time people just try to use it as a cover for the dumb parts. "The action is bad because it's a critique of the new action movies", nah, it was just underwhelming for a matrix movie. It was just bad. I'm not gonna list all of them, but if you can find a bad thing about this movie, you can also find someone saying "oh, no, it's actually a critique." No, it's not, it's just bad. The critiques are not subtle at all, they are pretty heavy-handed actually, and I think even they were not executed very well. I saw some people saying things like "it's a love letter to the fans", nah, it's a soulless cash grab, if not a middle finger to the fans. And I also saw things like "they could make a perfect movie but they chose to subvert fans' expectations." Like, what? Nobody expected a new matrix movie. Certainly, nobody expected a perfect movie. Did they just create expectations to subvert them? Wow, okay. And I think that's as good as they can make at this point. I don't think Warner Bros and Wachowskis have the ability to make the perfect movie the fans would want. One review made me laugh especially, I saw a guy saying "people will realize how good this movie is after a decade, just like the original Matrix." First of all, the original matrix was an instant hit. People didn't "realize how good it is after a decade". First Matrix made 460 million dollars, adjusted for inflation it's like 770 million USD. Matrix Reloaded made like 740 million dollars, adjusted for inflation it's like 1.1 billion USD. Those are not figures that underappreciated movies would make. Even if you don't remember or are too young to know about the matrix craze back then, you can see that matrix was received well right from the start, because it was a good movie. Besides, I hate that "rick and morty fan" mentality that suggests you have to have a high level of intelligence to appreciate a movie. If it's bad, it's bad. People don't think it's bad just because they're dumb.

I've watched it twice, and I've been a game dev for over a decade. Apart from the ham-fisted meeting scenes towards the beginning, which shows how big projects can be pulled apart into meaninglessness due to too many voices -- which is true of all media -- I didn't find any particularly insightful commentary on "video game culture." Frankly, I'm suspicious of anyone that even says "video game culture," particularly if their a journalist.

I agree that the threat of the matrix is gone. In the first film, the Agents were so badass and scary. They were like Mr. X or Nemesis in Resident Evil. You don't fight them. You RUN! But then going forward they were just whatever. Sure, Neo became superman and was able to fight them no problem. But even Morphious was holding his own on the tanker truck in Reloaded.

I think what distinguishes this from the first movie (badly) is that the first movie had high concepts and it used action to show those concepts in easy to consume form. The action was great and it was not necessary to the concept but it was in service to the story. This movie plants a few seeds about concepts like consumer and studio culture, and then COMPLETELY sets them aside to become a mediocre action movie. The action is separated from the story like oil and water.

I was fine with the critique of remakes, etc. But it was so intent on explaining how bad forced sequels are that it doesn’t actually subvert expectations at all. It just showcases that a traditional ‘studio’ franchise reboot would have actually been much better. If they one upped modern Hollywood by critiquing it and then having a wholly innovative, creative take on how to do it well, then they would be proving themselves right. But they actually made me side with WB on this one. That a sequel made by a legitimately interested new team and made as just an obvious and traditional sequel would have actually been significantly better. But they deconstruct the franchise but to no point and don’t do anything with the pieces they took apart to analyze. It’s like they were making a bad movie to prove a point but there’s no prize for winning.

The movie did miss out on a great opportunity regarding the new Morpheus. Because ... SPOILER ... ... the new Morpheus is a composite the original Morpheus and Agents Smith's traits, there could have been an interesting relationship between the new Morpheus and the new Agent Smith in terms of how morpheus's character grows.

The constant replaying of old scenes made me think of straight-to-video sequels. Not memorable, but I thought it was fine. It's my 4th favorite Matrix (I like Reloaded the best, expands the world and the freeway scene still holds up). I thought they were setting up Neo as the Architect, and maybe they bailed on the idea, but that would have been more interesting.

i dont remember morpheus having that much swag like damn

The first half was genuinely good and conceptually interesting and I thought I knew where they were going with it... until Neo woke up and it fell to crap.

The Matrix game in the movie that we see is the modal, it isnt the game that was released to the world. It was created subconsciously to look and act differently to get real world human attention. He programmed a different Morpheus to be found and red-pilled to assist in the real world again.

The reason the matrix is a video game... is because Thomas Anderson is a programmer. In his first Matrix life, he was a software engineer by day and a hacker by night. As a superhero, his power was just altering the code of the Matrix at will. Like, how did that go over anyone's head?

It was okay. Some of the concepts were clever and interesting, but their execution felt confused, maybe rushed. The fight choreography was boring. I zoned out like I do during fight scenes in some Marvel movies. The switch up with Trinity was nice, but the very ending was unsatisfying. The ending of the first felt so liberating, like I haven't felt that way in a theater since. The ending of 4 sounded like Mom-God and Dad-God are here to fix how messy the simulation has gotten. That's a goal, I guess.

There's some real bitterness in this movie towards movie goers. It could have just been called "You are all Sheep who only want Reboots and Franchises, how coming you didn't like Jupiter Ascending!?!?!" and it would have been accurate. What was disappointing is that the one thing that the original did so well, the action, this movie did a really bad job with. The entire end sequence was Keanu riding around on the back of a motorcycle holding out his hands to block stuff.

I like your thoughts of reenvisioning this as a fullblown satire. Sadly, they barely even scratched the surface of those promising ideas. I for one would've taken one of two other approaches: 1) The protagonist (Tom) struggles with psychosis and self-worth issues, and for some reason, Neo's "essence" is grafted onto him allowing him to see beyond his own perceived limitations and to help other disoriented people within the Matrix find their place within it, or 2) The Analyst is an "awoken" human plugged into the Matrix who attempts to create a utopia, which utterly backfires and has several prior iterations of the Matrix overlap. Either way, don't play Tomb Raider with Neo and Trinity, and don't obliterate their legacy and the peace they brought about ... just to do it.

How you guys remain so polite about it, I'll never know.

The Animatrix was the way to bring The Matrix back. Not like this, not like this.

I feel like there's this trend in movies now where they do/say things that point out how ridiculous the things that happen are, or they mention internet culture. it's meant to be a winky joke, but more accurately it seems like a "if we say it, you can't say it" type thing. it reeks of insecurity

So listening through I wanted to explain what is happening with the different trinity in the opening and different morpheus. The reason they're played by different characters than Carrie Anne Moss and Lawrence Fishburn is because what we see at the beginning is NOT the videogame of the original movie. That is a totally seperate thing Neo made on his own, like, in the current time of the movie. The original 3 "videogames" have the regular original cast, the opening where new morpheus is was made serperately from the 3 videogames. That's the MODAL they keep talking about throughout the movie. So later, when we see them showing Neo scenes taking straight from the original movies, those are from the first "game." If that makes sense

I wish that The Matrix would just go ahead and do a spin-off about other characters besides Neo, Trinity, and Morpheus. The Matrix universe is HUGE and yet they keep Star Wars syndrome coming back to the same three to four characters. Could there be international ships with all Aussies or an all Japanese or all UK crew? Colm Meaney should also be in The Matrix.

Ever since Shang-Chi came out, I can’t help noticing how muddy and cut to hell the action/fight scenes are in most movies. Everything was so clear in Shang-Chi, the fights in the new Matrix look shit by comparison.

Glad to see that you enjoyed more of the introspective parts of this. I too found those parts to be the more interesting parts of the film. Wish they had gone that direction instead. I think an alternate version of this movie could have left it vague about whether the matrix was "real" or if Anderson was crazy.

This movie is hyper meta to the point of ridiculousness and you're either on board for that or you aren't. I enjoyed the hell out of it and appreciated what Lana was trying to say but I also completely understand anyone who doesn't get enjoyment out of that. This was a film for a niche, for better or worse. I am in the niche, most people are apparently not. And that's fine!

People saying they “liked bugs” is just them saying they are open to new characters . She didn’t have a personality or a story

The problem with Matrix 4 is it’s just a movie. And because it’s a Matrix movie, we hoped for better

You’re telling me that the machines with their prized battery, Neo, didn’t monitor him closely enough and check to see if he was developing his own agent Smith/Morpheus get out of jail free card in the game they had set up for him to make?

I don't know anything about the matrix, for the first 20 minutes I thought thomas andreson was an actor until I looked him up and saw it was Keanu

With the resistance members, they made the same mistake the Alien franchise made post-Aliens, where they threw in a number of characters but didn't bother to spend any time whatsoever in letting you know who they were or why you should care. Hell, Mouse in the original was like something from Tolstoy compared to everyone who wasn't Bugs. You knew him, his character, his wants, and you felt bad for him when he died.

Still don’t know what happened, but “He’s turning bots into bombs” was sick

I never comment but this made me crazy. In the new matrix Neo and Trinity where been emotional manipulated. That's what made people in the matrix want to stay. I think Smith is able to fight super bullet time because of the lack of feelings. He has no emotional attachment in that world.

The Merovingian basically turned into how I imagine Martin Scorsese on his deathbed. Screaming about blockbusters and comic book movie sequels until his last breath.

The "too much noise" idea feels to me like a metaphor regarding politics in a certain resent era in America. There were so many crazy, galling, and divisive things going on that you couldn't even finish the conversation on what was wrong with thing #1785 before thing #1786 happened. There was just so much happening every day that you couldn't think long enough to know how to contribute to positive change.

It might sound unfair, but there was zero chance I'd ever like a Matrix sequel with a recast Morpheus and Smith. They were always my favorite characters, and the script can contrive whatever perfectly sensical explanation for recasts that they want, it's just not something I could ever fully enjoy.

I feel like there’s a lot to this film that needs more unpacking, but it did really resonate with me as a lifelong fan of the matrix franchise, and I think the film is broadly a response to the intensely personal nature of the first set of films (the many trans themes, the way the action is pieced together as a pastiche of everything the wachowskis thought was cool, all of the broader mix of philosophical concepts) and how that clashes with the films coopting by the studios that owned them. It’s for this reason that I don’t really like the idea of anyone else doing anything with the matrix, because I think the series is just such an intimate reflection of its creators, that cutting out the wachowskis entirely would I think deprive it of its soul

I think James and Nick and too hung up on the idea of the Matrix as a video game. The video game DOESN'T exist. It's all lies told to Neo to make him complacent and continue to do meaningless work. His prior experiences were real but the Matrix have convinced him that those experiences were just figments of his imagination and he then came up with the game based on those experiences.

At the start of the movie when they were brainstroming a matrix sequel i thought the whole movie was going to be like that And i liked that ideia I thought Neo was making his own matrix sequel in his computer, while a different more corporate matrix sequel is beign made by his company Like all the scenes of the trailers that are trying to invoke the originals movie where going to be from the corporate version, while Neo make his own "game" with new original characthers, and from that the ideas from Neo's Matrix start to bleed into "the real world" making him question his sanity

I shut it off halfway, I am here to find out how that fanfic ended.

Dark science, cloning, secrets only the Matrix knew. Thats how I'm able to know it after all...

Can't really define exactly why, but the first movie felt like so much more of a contained story where as the ending this time felt much more like "the game is on"

Agents make Stormtroopers look like accomplished marksmen.

It was super ironic that they had Chad Stahelski cameo (the director of the John wick films and an all around action guru) and yet the action scenes in the movie was pretty lackluster.

In my opinion, it should have stopped on the first one.

Watching this 3 days after Spiderman No Way Home puts a sour taste in my mouth. NWH Was the biggest studio-mandated franchise reboot sequel cash grab of all time but it felt great and made everyone happy cheering at the theater, and made the old movies better by showing how these characters lived after their movies. This movie has the Merovingian, who was the best of the sequels, and makes him into a joke screaming "I want my spinoff" which makes me want to be watching the sequels instead of this movie.

I really think this would have worked better as a mini-series on HBO Max since they can give it a large budget per episode.

This movie had so many interesting ideas, any one of them would make for an amazing movie. Some concepts I found really intriguing were: - A matrix within the matrix. - Neo making his own Morpheus to help him escape the matrix. - Neo's story (and the matrix itself) being part of pop culture within the matrix, so when someone starts questioning reality, they are not sure what is real and what isn't. And even after escaping, they still can't be sure whether any of it is real - We saw some of this with Neo, but once he woke up, that was it, he knew that he was in the real world. - The machine civil war. - Humans and machines working together. - The machines overloading the humans with information, using traditional and social media to cause stress, so the humans will create more energy (I feel they could make some great points about our society with this one). - I even liked the idea of Neo and Trinity being the one together, which sends the message that both sexes have to work together (I thought that this was kinda cringe though, there was never any hint to Trinity being the one along side Neo). - I also liked the idea of Neo and Smith working together to bring down the analyst who held them both captive. And what did they chose to go with? The same story as before (with recreating some of the shots and straight up reusing other shots from the old movies), while trying to be "meta" and critique modern movies, sequels, reboots and cash grabs, while also being a sequel, reboot and a cash grab. I also really hated the moment when the Analyst said something along the lines: "I'm using bullet time, the power that defined you, against you". Bullet time is not a power, it's just the name of the filming/VFX technique used to show what Neo could do. Don't even get me started on the time Neo dodged the bullet or the awful fight scenes. We've seen what Keanu can do for the John Wick movies, they should have done something like that. I mean, the director of John Wick was right there (Chad - Trinity's husband). If this long comment doesn't make it clear, I was really disappointed in this movie. I feel like the Wachowski's are great at introducing some awesome ideas, but don't really know what to do with them. I felt the same way with Jupiter's Ascending, if I remember correctly, that movie had some interesting concepts, but the final product was disappointing.

Bare with me as it is harder to put into text than I expected lol and tldr but I think Ballpheous and the modal from the opening sequence weren’t scenes from the game but rather Neo using his one powers and such that seemingly allow him to change the matrix to insert a simulation with new programs. new Morpheus was one of those programs, which is why he could be removed from the Matrix. It is also why they are recast in that opening scene Neo is trying remake a memory on a subconscious level I think which is why it is close but not quite right.

I've watched this 3 times. I didn't love it, or hate it the first time. But there are story elements and concepts that are pretty cool and interesting honestly. But the big things it lacks is the amazing action, special effects, the score, and cinematography of the original trilogy. I completely get why people do not like and hate this movie. But I personally don't think it's as bad as people make it out to be. Not sure how this movie allegedly cost 190 million to make. It doesn't look like it. Also not having Fishburne and Weaving apart of the film hurt it. Being put on HBO Max and up against the juggernaut of Spider-Man did it no favors either. I'll revisit the movie again I'm sure. When I heard it compared to TLJ, I figured Neo's characterization was going to be awful. But I think that they actually did a good job keeping him and Trinity fairly canonical with their earlier appearances. But the lack of action hurt this. The word of mouth mixed to negative at best. Ah well! How cool would it have been if it was Hugo Weaving's Agent Smith teaming up with Neo at the end? I also wish Neo did more than force push everything lol.

I like Mason's idea of doing a show, but my issue with that is that the quality would have been about the same as the movie was, because it would probably be drawn out to about ten episodes, but what it really needs is about three and a half to four and a half hours total. So like four or five episodes, but most things that get turned into a series are drawn to ten episodes, and it would end up taking too long.

The description's absolutely right, we did hear it heard first!

I love the first three Matrix films and was eagerly waiting for this movie ever since it was announced, and I was shocked at how bad it was. The only positive things were learning how the machines and humanity can now live together in peace and harmony, and Keanu and Carrie's acting. But everything else... 1. Would it really have been that hard to bring an older Morpheus back instead of killing him offscreen and bringing in a machine fanboy to take his place? 2. So there was a civil war within the machines, and now Io is involved in yet another war, which left humanity once again enslaved in the Matrix means that Neo's sacrifice ultimately amounted to NOTHING. 3. Niobe is an unlikable jerk who gives Old Luke Skywalker a run for his money as the most cynical edgelord around. 4. The Merovingian (who is now king of the hobos) adds NOTHING to the film. AT ALL. He literally just stands there and yells at Neo about how much he sucks before shambling away like Gollum and is never mentioned again. You could have cut him and his goons out and saved us from that horribly edited fight scene. 5. Smith... oh my God, where do I even begin with Smith? Wasn't he deleted for good at the end of 'Revelations'? Why the FCUK would the machines even let him still be around when he, you know, TRIED TO WIPE OUT HUMANITY AND THE MACHINES AND ALMOST SUCCEEDED?! Neo doesn't even seem to care when he realizes that his business partner is his mortal enemy. He's like, 'Oh.' and then they get into another pointless fight that adds nothing to the plot. like the Merovingian, you could have cut Smith out of the film entirely without affecting it at all. 6. Bugs is boring. Her crew are boring, get maybe one line each, and get no development at all. 7. Bugs sounds like she's mumbling most of her lines. 8. Why in heaven's name did the film need to make Trinity's release from the Matrix so freaking complicated?! Would it really be that hard to just unplug her and then whisk her out of the machine tower instead of Star Trek-level technobable about duplicating her brain waves? 9. The climax is a boring, generic escape scene that could have been taken from any thriller released in the past twenty years. It feels like it's building up to a spectacular finale, only to end without delivering said finale. 10. The film can't decide if it's a romance, a thriller, the start of a new series, or a reboot. It tries to do everything and fails. 11. The action and fight scenes are dull, poorly shot, and poorly edited. Compared to the smooth, slick, and professional-looking fights from the first three films, this movie looks like it was shot by amateurs. I hate banging on a movie that Lana Wachowski made to help cope with the death of her parents, but 'Resurrections' is a failure from beginning to end. The Matrix series deserved better than this.

I'm glad you guys mentioned the NPH scene where Smith is just there casually in another person's body, avoiding the new bullet time (cause Smith is an insta god in this movie for some reason). He punches NHP but then gets jumped by random agents (not bots) and struggles. Power dynamics, pacing, character motivation, etc.. were just so muddled in this movie. Like you all said, some real interesting concepts executed very poorly. I doubt they'll let them make another movie (any movie) for a very long time.

Painting the sky with rainbows reminded me of the sky Sati made at the end of the third movie saying it's for Neo.

The singer of the last scene cover song peeing inside the fan's mouth is the perfect metaphor for this movie.

I laughed so hard when Bugs was caught at the beginning and somehow wasn't shot while running away. Clearly, the movie was telling us nobody was going to die. What a dog shit film.

The scene where you see a new trinity and the new Morpheus is a modal hidden from the analyst and the actual video game is the one with all the original cast the original trilogy

It started really interesting with the new concepts they established from how the war has evolved. But then the later half felt like a cheap cop out with little sense of danger

Idc the movie was sick, it’s not gona be a retread, they did nostalgia bait but this movie is a house of ideas or trains of thought, basically lots of philosophical pondering and big action. It was a very meta movie and is my second fave of the franchise

It’s clearly just a convoluted love story for Neo and Trinity. But it’s implied that removing them from the Matrix could start up the war again, which is specifically what Neo, Trinity and Niobe would not want to happen. Cute but dumb, imo.

James, Mason. Are we really going to overlook the fact that when Neo first wakes up on the ship in the real world, he calls out to Trinity and Bugs replies, “What’s up, doc?”

There were so many fun concepts that I would have liked to see more fleshed out, like the friendly machines, the deal between the new Zion city (forgot the name) and the machines is, the simulations within the matrix itself, whole deal with exiles (couldn't we get an alliance between the exiles and the redpills?), the reincarnated Smith,...

Imagine two psychological thriller movies about Thomas Anderson’s (he’d have a different name) reality bending psychological disorder that make zero mention of anything matrix, and then a third movie reveals it was Neo all along.

This is the most "I'm not angry, I'm just disappointed" movie review I've ever listened to.

First Act was great. But they could have done a Blade-Runner like intro to do some quick worldbuilding to save time. The rest was really drawn out...the whole 'reuniting' thing could have been done in 1,5 hours and then you could have set up some great creative meta sequels (and even the games...)

On WB’s “For Your Consideration” section, they had a ton of different categories for Matrix: Resurrections. Christina Ricci was listed under “Best Supporting Actress”. She is also one of the top billed actors in the film. Considering that she had a total of 30 seconds of screen time and considering that I KNEW before seeing the movie that she was going to be in the scenes at the software company, and I STILL managed to miss her entirely on my first viewing. I had to go back and watch again, specifically searching for her. My guess is that she was essentially cut from the final cut of the movie and I’m guessing that those cuts were made VERY late in post, because nothing she did in those 30 seconds were award worthy 🤣. I know that there were multiple screenings going back to the early summer months. I wish I could get a confirmation from people that watched those test screenings if they can remember anything that they saw in those viewings that were removed for the final release. My speculation is that there was quite a bit more WB bashing and stuff from the meta marketing scenes that just dragged on. Some of the acting in this movie was over the top for no reason. However, I don’t put The Merovingian in that category. His epic FACE-ZUCKER-SUCK mad rant was an A+ to me!

For me this movie talked at me too much with flashback cuts and everyone running up to Neo saying “I’m the grandchild of this character!” really got on my nerves.