The Matrix Resurrections has turned out to be an absolute flop in theatres, and its easy to see why. This film was a disaster from start to finish. Join me as I review it.
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Agents are now pussies, Law enforcement uses rockets like candies. Bullets follow stormtrooper logic. Machines are 'synthients' and you're supposed to trust them because she said so, else we put your head on a spike. All you need to expose the bad guy is a mirror. Plenty of reasons why I agree with your choice of title, Drinker.
@@Lucas12v Yeah what even happened there, "schedulation conflicts"? That sounds too unprofessional to be true. What is this, little Hugo overslept the bus to school and couldn’t come? Obviously one of the two parties didn’t want anything to do with the other.
0:08 The Matrix: Resurrections 0:47 The Matrix: Redirections 4:57 The Matrix: Regurgitations 6:02 The Matrix: Revelations 8:31 The Matrix: Re-circulations 8:54 The Matrix: Regenerations 9:20 The Matrix: Retaliations I hope I haven't missed any 😅
When I saw that they were making this movie…I naïvely thought it would be a worthy revival. I felt 16 again and I was geeking out at the idea of it. Then I saw it…I left the theater quietly and feeling empty. It has to be similar to what being left at the marriage altar feels like.
It feels like Chrismas Romcom so I quit disappointed after trailer. Nothing that pumped me like Trilogy, and I found that actors of Agent Smith a Morpheus are not in this and this was red flag for me. At least there is that Unreal engine demo...
And then he gave 70% of that entire paycheck away. (Really.) That's Keanu. He's just a guy...who happens to act. Bought the entire crew Harleys too. (And even got upset when some reporter leaked the truth about his generosity-he didn't want the attention. (The movie blew chunks, sure-but Keanu is that dood. Fact.)
@@Noir0rioN According to his friend, he gives that much money away too cause he's embarassed by all that wealth he has. Factor that new Matrix movie into that, and I really respect him for it.
Based on what I've read, WB kept pushing for a new Matrix, the Wachowskis said no but after losing their parents they said okay. However the movie was pretty much used as a coping mechanism (hence the resurrected characters) and possibly also a mean to satisfy WB's constant nagging. So they clearly didn't put up too much effort for the quality.
Yeah, it definetly has to be a meta-piece. I mean even if ti was completely fresh directors they'd at least put some effort in. This whole thing is deliberately a big insult
You mean WB “nagging” to use the Wachowskis only profitable property after 15 years of giving them hundreds of millions of dollars to make pretentious drivel that nobody wanted to see?
@@kevinzhang6623 no I mean if it was genuine then a nebiew would be better. Like they'd have better action coreography and cgi, and less obvious writing. But they decided to purposefully avoid these due to their meta-narrative
I can’t get over the continuity error of that handshake 🤝 Their right hands go together, but due to poor blocking, they got Neo looking like he’s going in with the left. Literally could’ve just flipped the camera to over her right shoulder
All I needed was to see that blue-haired gender thing and I wasn't going to bother. And the uh, changes that the Wachowskis have undergone between then and now? No thanks.
The trilogy was decently wrapped up. With that one line architect said. "How long you think this peace will last? " " As long as it takes" says the oracle. Could have started franchise again with that conversation
The Matrix was known for three things: 1) Amazing hand to hand fight choreography 2) Creative gun play 3) Introducing audiences to some armchair philosophy through the guise of science fiction What the The Matrix Resurrection offers: *None of the three things mentioned above.*
The Matrix Resurrections has characters explaining to you the themes of the previous 6 hours of film, just in case those themes were too intelligent and flew over your head.
I just watched it on TV the other day and it felt like a fanfiction in motion. First, we have to circumvent canon. Resurrect Trinity and Neo. Next, construct a backstory around *why* the machines would not only resurrect them but keep them alive. Sprinkle it with liberal use of flashbacks. Add a touch of modern political philosophy. It's a fanfiction, without two of the major characters. Four, if you count the Oracle and the Architect.
This is the only film where using CGI to de-age the actors could've made sense, since the matrix is a simulation, and they decided not to do it. Hell, they could've used CGI to turn a young acrobatic kung-fu fighter into Keanu in post so he looked like a badass and not a middle aged has-been. They could've even written it off, by noting how "you don't notice things look unusual in a dream until you wake up" if they wanted
The brother's Speed Racer movie was great, yet it flopped because WB made it years too late. MTV reruns of the 1967-68 cartoon were popular in 1993, so there was little interest for a Speed Racer movie in 2008.
Sad thing is there's a hint of a even better movie in that disaster with the machine Civil War. Human involvement through the Matrix would have made sense and you still get the awesome fights these movies are known for. The humans could even have some infighting over who which side in the civil war to choose. I could imagine two separate crews going into the Matrix to fight over it. Perhaps the humans could finally come to the surface to build a new city with the help of the machines and we see a new Society integrating human & Machines who decide to live in both the Matrix & the real world in the end.
That already sounds like a better movie. When I heard about the machine civil war, thru this movie and the Animatrix series, I thought, "why don't they make a movie about THAT?"
Kind of agree with you. The first 3 films were a perpetual Buddhist reincarnation of the matrix story to balance the humans as they live in slavery or blue pill fake living. The last rendition of agent smith was a virus that could end both civilizations, human and robots. Trinity and Neo died as heroes. It was bigger than those two and their love story. The new ideas in this film could have begun a fascinating sci fi world outside of the matrix. This movie didn't have to be a heap of recycled trash.
I've just watched this woke disaster, really disappointed until it got to the 1 second scene of the toaster civil war and said to my wife " why didn't they make the film about that.
@bl8388 sorry but it's not Buddhist, it's hindu which is basically the same thing but there is slight difference, even the song is based on a hindu slogan achitoma jothirga Maya, from darkness to light
Definetly, but I don't think we'll ever get a new matrix piece beyond maybe another animatrix. Like it is obvious the Wachowskis didn't want anything to do with this. It is so garbage and muddled, and so explicit with call backs that it really isn't a film. It's a meta-piece
The film is so meta, that the director might as well have walked onto the screen, told the other characters to leave, and just talked the audience. “That Hollywood, am I right?”
The "joke" meta stuff was bad, but for me it was the "serious" meta stuff that was truly egregious. Like the digs at Ben Shapiro, or when Toilet-Brush Head goes into a diatribe to Neo in the real world about how "they" take your experiences and weaponize them for themselves against you, which was a painfully obvious commentary on the "Right Wing" supposedly hijacking the term Red Pill (Wachoski openly admitted the entire reason "she" made the film was to reclaim the term for the Left). Add onto that all the really gross stuff about family bonds being an illusion and used to imprison you (and the key to liberation and being your true self is to sever those ties) and the whole movie just comes across as one giant self-therapy session for Lana Wachowski. Lana is clearly a messed up human being and this movie felt like their attempt at rationalising their unhealthy coping strategies.... Almost as though Lana has spent a lot of time in therapy and didn't like what their therapists said, and they made an entire movie as a way to explain why the therapists were wrong - which explains why the villain of this movie is literally depicted as a therapist... 🤷♂️
Agents are now pussies, Law enforcement uses rockets like candies. Bullets follow stormtrooper logic. Machines are 'synthients' and you're supposed to trust them because she said so, else we put your head on a spike. All you need to expose the bad guy is a mirror. Plenty of reasons why I agree with your choice of title, Drinker.
Honestly I at least enjoyed 2 and 3, and they felt like they were in the same universe at least. 4 was just the worst sequel I've ever seen. And that's saying something.
@@Thecriticaldrinker..22 Quality content my guy. I absolutely love the character you have created. I didn't know he also existed in the comments but thanks for reading! Keep providing your dynamic, brutal but hilarious content please :D Edit: Oh, I have read a few other comments now and inevitably some folks react predictably.... probably watch Love Island or summat. There is so much sewage being thrown out these days its comforting to know there are others also repelled by it.
I'm old enough to remember when the original Matrix came out. The Internet was still in its infancy (no leaks or social media at the time), and the one thing that made that movie so special back then was the fact that so little was known about it. The first trailers were very cryptic, with most of the marketing consisting of asking people the question *What is the Matrix?* and I remember that lots of people barely knew what they were going to watch when they bought the tickets. The second and third were not as good because they were running out of creative juice and ended up relying too much on action. They still had a few good ideas in Reloaded, but failed to deliver in Revolutions. We still felt compelled to go watch them though because we wanted to know how the story was going to end. With this entry, however, there's no surprise element anymore. It tries to reminisce on what once was but the whole thing feels off since the world has changed too much since 1999-2003. This movie feels like going out on a Saturday night, getting drunk, hooking up with your ex-girlfriend you haven't seen in almost 20 years and expecting to get that spark going again. It's not going to happen. She's now divorced, overweight, and you can no longer relate to each other at any deeper level. You'll just leave with a bitter aftertaste and end up regretting the whole thing.
8:35: Given Keanu has done all the John Wick movies in his 50s, I don't think the problem is that he's too old for exciting action scenes. I think the problem is that the choreography is garbage.
The problem is that this movie really should have taken his age into account while working out the fight scenes. Keanu might not have the physical strength and speed necessary for the fast-paced fights of the original movies, but focusing instead on timing, strikes meant to disable or weaken his opponent, and taking a slower and more strategic approach would have made up for that. Using lazy Taken-style quick cuts just highlights how this version of Neo is an inferior knock-off of himself.
Ironically, the Chad in the Matrix film is Chad Stahelski, the director of the John Wicks films. So they had a guy on hand that knew how to make fight scenes. Odd.
Keanu doing jazz hands during the entire third act was pure lazyness, and considering the budget for this movie, I think Keanu got paid A LOT for this movie
LMAO thank you for watching this movie so that I didn't have to! I had a feeling that pretty well everything you said about this film would be true just based on the trailer so I never did go see it. I'm extra glad now that I didn't. Thank you for this humorous and honest review!
Normally I go watch a movie even tho' my friends say it sucks. Now if MANY friends, family says "it sucks", then it's really hard to be independent. TY CRit Drinker for saving me time.
Man this movie makes Black Adam look like a Marvel's Infinity war I'm so glad that we did not go to the actual movie theater and that we had HBO Max and you could just watch it you know but men on this piece of s***. Just drives and drags and stumbles and mumbles exposition stumble stumble bad fight exposition just so stupid weightless all this exposition pointless premise that makes no f****** sense just everything it doesn't work Keanu Reeves looks like he'd rather be anywhere just wanted a paycheck and then he took it and regretted it
I think the official stated reason this movie was made is because "people we don't like have been using the redpill/bluepill meme and we wanted to reclaim it." Because all the best movies are made out of spite.
This is why I've completely given up on hollywierd, it's all BS. Nothing original and taking established characters and completely changing and/or neutering them.
@@kennethboyer2338 Either you haven't seen *_Spider-Man: No Way Home_* yet or you are letting yourself be a prisoner of the moment. Chill. Yes, Hollywood is a tool of the global-elites to further their agenda, but it has ALWAYS been that. They've just put the volume on blast the past 6-7 years or so. There are still masterpieces that happen in the midst of trash. Focus on the good movies like *_Ghostbusters: Afterlife_* and *_Spider-Man: No Way Home_* and forget about movies like this.
To be fair, John Wick 4 proved Keanu Reeves can still pull off awesome fight scenes at 50+. I blame the sloppy and slow choreography on Matrix Resurrections.
Its art, the rich people are showing you that they got nothing better to buy. At least they can use your old dreams as toilet paper and be amused by your reaction. I think it's coming from China, if they can push you away from American media, maybe you will start watching Chinese movies. Sadly, Chinese movies tend to be better than American movies anymore.
@@elinope4745 lmao I guess China lives in your head rent-free. Hollywood is nearing a state of creative bankruptcy due to inept and incompetent executives and creatives. Gotta clear out the internal rot before shouting "China! That's why!"
I think someone should do a documentary about HOW the Wachowskis actually managed to create the first Matrix successfully. Did they sign a deal with the Devil? Where did they get the script? Who hired the fight choreographer who did wirework and cinematographer who did bullet time? There's got to be a story there; cause I no longer believe that they were the creative force behind that movie
The irony is that there was still a story to tell about the Matrix, it just didn't need Neo anymore... This was one of the few moments where it actually would have been better to have an entirely new cast which is hilarious. At the end of the third movie people are given the choice to unplug and humanity has regained its footing in the world, we actually get to see glimpses of this with the machines in Zion actually creating synthetic food which function like the plant counterparts except they don't need the sun. Here is where the story comes in... Earth is still fucked. The sky is still blocked by swarms of nanites and the planet is essentially dead, which means that humanity is actually in a really messed up situation of needing the energy that comes from harnessing themselves as well as the help of the machines to be able to actually come up with a solution to save the future of nature on earth. The script practically writes itself and you could even have a whole other trilogy spawned from this in sequence... The Matrix Reflections(Humanity is trapped with the machines in needing the matrix in order to fix the world), The Matrix Requiem(the sky is no longer covered by nanites, which means both the machines and humans no longer need each other however the Matrix has kept both going for so long that the shutdown does not happen easily for either side with factions for and against on both sides), and The Matrix Reborn(The radical factions cause chaos both in and out of the Matrix for both sides until the unified humans and machines work together for the common future. What started as a tool for slavery and power harvesting is also a tool for knowledge and allowing humans to instantly learn whatever is needed, the movie ends with the machine hivemind looking to the sky with our protagonist standing next to them).
It needed Neo. In the Bible which Matrix was based on Jesus/Neo is ressurected. In the last part before 4th installment Neo was pronounced dead after killing Smith. He never ressurected. That is a missing link.
@@amrokas It honestly really wasn't. They were dependent on solar power, humans blocked out the sun, and the machines put humans in pods to turn their body heat into energy. A human body literally cannot output more energy than it takes in. Humans in pods could never be net producers of energy.
@@WombatDave It honestly really was ;). It was explain right after Neo was awakened "As Morpheus, who's played by Laurence Fishburne, explains to Neo shortly after this truth is revealed to him: "The human body generates more bio electricity than a 120 volt battery and over 25000 BTUs of body heat. Combined with a form of fusion the machines had found all the energy they would ever need." So why would machines ever need to seek for an alternative?
Same, but I'll admit I liked how they dunked on the corporate nature of movies and video games while also making fun of the reboots, sequels, and prequels of old IPs. Feels nice that at least someone in Hollywood acknowledges it's stupid. Not as stupid as making Neo and Morpheus comic relief characters though.
@@andreivaldez2929 It was an attempt to have the cake and eat it too. It's like walking in on your spouse cheating on you and they just say "Yeah, this is pretty fucked up, right? I suck." and they just carry on banging someone else in your bed.
20 years later . The CGI and fighting at the least should of beem mind boggling. The story already was stretched for the trilogy. All we wanted was a nod to the orginals, with insane badass sequences. Think what Tom Cruise has done with every iteration of Mission Impossible movies
I think they dodged a bullet too. I thought it was kind of interesting how the new Morpheus and Agent Smith actors were both 25 years younger than their respective predecessors, and I now feel intrigued to see how the narrative of this film explains them looking sort of different. April 28, 2022, 4:03am
IDK Maybe with all that time, the Wachowski Siblings could have created an interesting sequel. Matrix 2 and 3 had their issues, though they also had some great scenes and concepts. Why do all the "good" directors and "writers" have to Lucas up the sequels??? Cocaine must be one hellova drug.
I just wanna know why he hates BUGS’s blue hair? She looked dope as fuck in the matrix. Fits we’re on point. Shades were killer. Hair was always nicely quaffed and looked good. Maybe I’m just partial. I really loved BUGS as a character. (And RESURRECTIONS rulez btw)
The Drinker! This was great to watch and I agree with your points. Have you done a "The Drinker Fixes... " for this yet? I'd really love to see it fixed, just like you did for Multiverse of Madness. Cheers mate. Skål!
The Matrix Resurrections is like ordering crepes at a diner, then the waitress serves you American pancakes yet the menu clearly said crepes, leaving both parties confused when confronted with reality, you ask the waitress why and she tells you that crepes and pancakes are the same thing. Facepalming hard, you reply that they might made of the same ingredients but they most certainly not the same. The Matrix Resurrections might be made of the Matrix lore but its certainly not a Matrix film. Edit: Holy shit this thing exploded, thanks! Go watch some more Critical Drinker videos.
When your film is about a love story featuring The Matrix, rather than being a movie about The Matrix featuring a love story, you know you've cocked up.
The love story, and it must be clarified it's between a man and a woman because that's important for its function, is only a smoke screen for the fact that they castrated Neo and the previous movies. It's there to distract you from all the penis envy, cough, I mean cunt "power".
Please, go see the end credits of Matrix Resurrections and see why they made about a love story! you might think twice before judge the story. 😂😂 Also, this movie was also The Matrix,! that tiny mind just didnt paid attention enough because you listen to what a drunk guy words has gospel.
I had my own ideas about the next instalment of the series, I think that I should have sent them in. The first problem was with how the movie started. I'm still trying to decide what was worst, that the start was irrelevant to the film story or that it was thoroughly confusing. Inception on steroids. For starters, I wouldn't have jumped the story 60 years in to the future. I would have found a more interesting way to bring Neo and Trinity back to life or for them to have survived as we don't actually know for sure that they died. Trinity could had just lost consciousness instead of dying and there were two reasons for a strong case for neo not dying. First, the last scene of his showd the machine city, as he would have been seeing it when he lost his eyesight. Second, the Oracle said at the end of the movie that she expected that they would be seeing Neo again. The most interesting elements of the series, seem to be what's mentioned to have happened but not shown in the movies. That's a lot of wasted good plot possibilities that a much better movie could have been made of. For instance, Neo and Trinity could have survived and as Neo had powers in the real world and Trinity seemed to gain some also, they could have played themselves 20 years later and be like older leaders in charge of other awesome fighters but still be powerful and awesome in their own rights, a sort of obi one kanobi character if you will. The young boy who got himself out of the matrix was the only person who had managed to do that in the movie so he would have to have had some series abilities so it was a complete waste not making him the most powerful character or the next "the one" so his story set up in the animation and in the films was just pointless. The new movie would have been much better if it was much closer to the time of the previous movie and followed on more sequentially in the story bring about what was just mentioned in the new movie. On the plus side, I did like now Morpheus was portrayed but not that he was a machine character. It would have been better if he was a real person and say, the son of Mortheus. After all, Morpheus was with Naomi at the end of the previous movie and they could have played themselves as a married couple in the same way as Brendon Fraser was married with a grown son in the last The Mummy movie. If the new movie just retained some of it's older but still stronger characters along with one or two newer ones with some powers and it took up where things began to change and go wrong after the peace treaty time, the new movie could have been a great one and set the stage for another couple of awesome following movie. This last one wraps things up pretty neatly but it's such a waste of a series that had a lot of potential which ultimately, got completely wasted.
I like how in the original movies when people ran up the walls, it was usually to jump over enemies, or get out of the way of an attack, but in this film they just randomly start running along the walls, as if the bullets that were aiming for their head will somehow now miss them now that they went horizontal.
my favourite one in the original was trinity cartwheeling through the metro gates or something, a big move and a lot of effort for something trivial xD I giggle every time I watch that scene.
When I found out that Laurence wasn't even asked to be in the new Matrix, I raised an eyebrow. And after watching this, I'm glad he wasn't. His legacy didn't need to be sullied with this garbage.
Its 60years later, he's dead in story, and the 'new' Morpheus doesnt look like him for in-story reasons. Wouldve been cool to see him but I understand why they werent bothered to.
I'm a fan of The Matrix. I started watching this one on the plane, and after 20 minutes, I decided it was better to look at the clouds outside my windows for the rest of the flight.
I was one of the unfortunate souls that watched it over the Christmas weekend. My dad was a huge fan of the original trilogy. We watched it on HBO Max. He got up about an hour into it and went off to take a nap. I asked him later in the day if he wanted to watch it and replied “No. I’ll watch the first Matrix instead.” I finished watching it. It was hot garbage. I went to go see Spidey NWH again later that day.
thats ok only low IQs with small attention spans didn't like it, Disney is more of your thing since u only watch movies for CGI action scenes. You are the "sheeple" the movie makes fun of, OH WAIT U DIDNT MAKE IT THAT FAR LOL
Lawrence Fishburne - “I’m not sure why they didn’t call me back for this movie.” Also Lawrence Fishburne after Matrix Resurrections is released - “Thank God.”
knowing when to stop is one of the most important lessons for an artist to learn. unfortunately, the maturity that process requires isn't in high demand in hollywood. the sad truth is i've got a lot of experience ignoring films in the matrix series, so one more doesn't really change anything for me.
In Lana's defense, she did want to stop. She only made this film as a coping mechanism for losing her parents. WB were the ones demanding and pushing for a sequel.
It feels a lot like the Terminator franchise. I didn't care for most of those so I either watched them years down the line or not at all. I didn't care about Matrix 4 so I probably won't ever watch it.
@@under_score3829 "She only made this film as a coping mechanism for losing her parents. " Her saying that sounds itself like a coping mechanism, tbh. Me, I not only ignored this film, I watched the original Matrix film last night and enjoyed it. I don't think I'll bother rewatching 2 and 3 either, tbh.
Part 2 and 3 were already shit if you ask me. They were already milk products. So this shit isn't even milking the franchise. It's milking the milk of the franchise..
@@Micha-qv5uf I use to hate the 2nd and 3rd but I also understand the matrix concept so now I love them it’s a deep thinking movie most ppl only liked the matrix for the action and never caught the mental aspect of it
I watched this last night. I was hoping that they were going to turn it around and make everything Neo went through in this movie be some sort of containment program where he has to go through the same events over and over again in some sort of sisyphusian punishment for rocking the boat so hard in the first movies. If the first movie was an exploration of the allegory of the cave, this one then being caves within caves. Sadly that was not the case, and all the weird commentary on modern media and sequels, and the strange misuse of the color blue with many of the characters was for nothing. It really felt like the studio said "make another matrix movie" and the director didn't want to, but couldn't turn down the fat paycheck.
The Sisyphusian over and over is what was heavily alluded to in the Matrix Reloaded during the scene with Neo and the Architect. Those 'tvs' were instantiations of Neo, many instantiations. There were definitely more interesting places to go with this latest movie but they didn't go there.
When I saw the first trailer, I thought that's what this was going to be as well. The Matrix keeping Neo imprisoned and punished, and essentially someone discovering he was still alive and what it would take to remind him of what he had done and rescue him.
Personally, I would've like for this movie go towards the Second Renaissance route from the Animatrix and explore how machines view humans after their freedom. I'm sure some machines harbor hatred since the war but others might want to look toward forgiveness.
I'm sure you put less than 10 minutes of thought into this comment, but came up with more or less the perfect "it was all a dream" plotwist I've read in a comment section. Why weren't people like you hired to write this movie?
After my 3rd attempt, I managed to finish this movie last night without faling asleep, and I am truly sorry that Keanu Reeves, Carrie Anne-moss etc were forced into this blight of a movie. This movie goes directly into the "This movie is NOT canon and I do not acknowledge it's existence" box, which also contains franchises such as Fast and Furious (Post 2fast 2furious) and all 3 of the most recent Star Wars movies.... That box is where I keep my sanity safe from cash-grab sequels.....
They weren't "forced" into anything. The same way no one will have to "force" you to do some mediocre acting in exchange for a million dollars. This movie IS canon. It HAS to be, because otherwise we will forget the lessons learnt from trying to revive a series that has already concluded. To deprive it of being canon means ensuring the cycle of bloat continues.
Watched your review over a year ago. Today I watched the movie because I had nothing better to do. Reading a book would have been a better choice. Watched your review again. Gotta say, spot on and even quite balanced for this kind of disaster...
I see my days of having no desire to see this film are just getting started. Thank you, Drinker, for falling on this grenade so that others don't have to.
I started watching days ago. I've turned it off many times and shut it down for good after a scene where the MACHINES have preferred -pronouns- names. They prefer to called simbiots apparently. Eff off film!
I did that a long ass time ago, think it was back when terminator salvation came out? Might have been when Conan the barbarian came out? Can’t remember.
There are so many moments in this film where the script may as well have had one of the characters turn to the camera, break the fourth wall and say "heh, remember that from the other films?"
There was zero reason for this to exist other than for creators to be spiteful of those who made them what they are. We're in a serious age of creators just absolutely hating the audiences that made them, and they're finding out quickly that it's not working out for them
I do believe that they "nerfed" him cause, well even tho he does a good Job on the John Wicks movies, Keanu is just too Old to do Kung Fu , like in the Trilogy. Wicks fight are brutal, but less flamboyant with short and clean moves, close to the body and the target. Matrix fights are basically like Old School Kung Fu movies, lots of movements, Leg work and Kicks, wich would be difficult for Him now, lets not kid ourselfs. So they came up with that Jedi/Force push stuff, where all he does is push his hands forward and shit just flies away... There is the Figth with Walmart Smith, but its filmed really close, there's lot of shit flying around and the camera is shaky, so you hardly really get a good look at whats happening. And this is also another issue of this movie, it looks like they got a Figth Choregropaher that has never seen 2 people fight in their lives and certainly never saw any of the Matrix movies...
It may be projection for the praise they sought for so long has made them realize that it won’t be enough to sustain yourself from the overall disappointment of life and could lead them to self-destructive behavior that it makes them resent the ones who praised them in the first place. That’s why God is so important. He can give you life and a purpose.
Let this film serve as a reminder for two important things: 1. Film directors only go bad with time. Some go faster, some go slower, but past a certein point, it's a road downhill. 2. Having the original creator of a franchise direct a new sequel/reboot/rehash is no guarantee for success.
Cough Prometheus cough, perfect example. The Matrix (original) was a fluke, the wachowskis haven't had a hit since. And they pretty much ripped off everything to do it the first time.
Directors are best at the beginning because they are more ambitious and they are forced to be more flexible with their decisions. As they gain more clout, they get more and more self-indulgent and insular. Surrounding themselves with yes-men also doesn't help. Creative people always need someone around them to say, "That's a stupid idea!"
Honestly how long have you got. They could of done so much with a franchise like the matrix. They could of done how Morpheus came to be and the captain of the nebuchadnezza. Or the rise of the machines. Maybe an Agent Smith origin story. They could of took any one of the animatrix short storys and took it to a full feature film. I wouldn't of even minded if they had a slow burning phychological thriller styled film of how neo wasn't aware he was in a simulation leading up to the events of the first film. The fans wouldn't like the latter suggestion for its lack of action but at least we would of got a better character development of the main protagonist. Also if the had of done the latter and kept it away from all matrix association and the film only ever mentions his name as 'Tom' at the cinema it would of been a really big reveal to find out it was 'Mr Thomas Anderson' aka NEO.
I laughed mockingly at the biggest reveal in the movie. It's a good movie but christ it's not even on the top 10 list of movies so I don't get why people even wanted this, much less want to roast it.
So I ended up watching the movie -- finished about 20 minutes ago -- because I wanted something on that I wouldn't care if i fell asleep in front of, mostly due to watching this video when it came out. Boy oh boy... some of the criticisms are on point, like the meta cynism, which was pretty obvious even back then. But I've gotta say, most of this quick review is about as cherry picked as studies that say cigarettes will cure all that ails you. The sad part is that I'm starting to see that more and more. As I run out of good movies and shows to watch, I will fall back into random things that I doubt will be more than average but expect much less due to reviews such as this, and find that these reviews from The Drinker are looking more biased and skewed. I'm not sure if its a change in his actual ideals, or just that he is doubling down on them because it feeds The Algorithm. Whats worse is that The Drinker seems to have missed actual dialogue that explained some of the "plot holes" and "retcons", not the first video that I've noticed that in it; perhaps his release schedule is too much for him to keep up with and he releases them with known misinformation; much like Linus Tech Tips. Was it a cash grab by Warner? Yes. Did the movie straight up tell us exactly what was told to the Wachowski's by Warner in relation to making this 4th movie? Yes. Did it pander to the more progressive audiences? Eh... unless you say that having someone with blue hair does, then I guess you'd consider any woman with a non-natural hair colour to be entrenched in the left. Was it a bad movie, or a waste of time? It was average, something thats not quite a waste of time, but not something to set time aside for
I'm glad I'm not the only person thinking he's gotten more aggressive in his biases. I watched it the other day for the first time and wanted to watch some videos on it to see what I missed only to have Drinker tell me it's the worst movie ever. It wasn't bad I particularly enjoyed all the easter eggs in it.
@@mildlydazed9608Yeah, I'm skipping the videos on movies that i know I'm already not interested in, and are low hanging fruit for the channel; Marvel movies, Star Wars, etc. Like sure I'll probably check Star Wars Ahsoka out on my mum's Disney+ since I enjoyed Clone Wars; but I'm going in with low expectations. Meanwhile I'm now actually going to watch the Barbie movie, as I indifferent to it when I saw it, then got curious based on people's opinions on it (mostly how a lot of men who got their undies in a knot over a sub par beer, are losing their shit over Barbie lol), I want to see how it actually plays out. I've read enough people talk about how the "Kens" in the movie eventually have a huge self-discovery moment which is a pivitol lesson that boys should learn before their teens, about one's self worth being independant from their sexual, or financial status. And now another reason is to see exactly how truthful the Drinker was with his review
You can see how little fucks Keanu gives with this acting in this movie its like his acting says "you made me be in this POS but that doesn't mean i will help you ruin it further"
I'm pretty sure that's Chad Stahelski, stunt double for Keanu in the original series and director of John Wick etc, so Chad is meant to be yet another meta reference.
@@rootvalley2 It means, only "chad" could have made her choose him over neo and that is exactly what happened in the movie, neo was an incredible man but chad in her mind was many times better than neo till a psychological tradcon act made her to choose the beta, in this case possible neo. Anyway, women would never leave chad in any way, reason this movie was a lie.
This felt like a poor Netflix series made into a film. Agent Smith was about as intimidating as a kitten, and I couldn’t care for anyone else apart from Neo. The pacing was terrible also.
💞Guardiantext🌼org❤and .... The purpose of any Lifetime. From the ancient wise men. You are not the body and mind you are Eternal Spirit trapped in the body, you have forgotten over many incarnations. The Matrix is your own bio computer brain machine that keeps You in the illusion of being a physical Being in a physical world via the nervous system and the five senses. Meditation is putting the body and mind to sleep but staying Awake and Alert inside so you can re experience your Self as Eternal Spirit again. If you remain in this state after Meditation its called Nirvana, Samadhi, The Tao, AWAKE as Eternal Spirit again, The Holy Grail to Eternal Life, Obtaining the Golden Fleece Greek mythology, Self Realization Yogananda, Prodigal son ,Garden of Eden, Satori Cosmic Consciousness, Leaving the Body but not dying Socrates Ramana Maharshi, Krishnamurti , etc etc all the same. THAT IS THE TRUTH.
They did try to bend a Matrix-esque sci-fi into their Netflix hosted show “Sense8” which they absolutely suffocated with woke garbage. Probably better than Matrix: Refinanced.
There really is so much that you can pick apart in this movie, but that did stick out to me quite a bit. The Smiths in the first one right from the start were already intimidating as faceless, robotic government men bent on snuffing out any divergent individuals. When the audiences realizes that they are literally inhuman beings, they become all the more freaky.
Tonight I tried to watch this movie (one year after it came out) and... after the first minutes I thought "what the f..k is this?". After 15 minutes "stop, just can't watch this s..t!". I better look for the Drinker review ... and what? Drinker said the things I thought, and more, and better. Thank you Drinker for showing me I'm not... Crazy (we don't use that word here)
The whole premise fails to work now. The Matrix came out in 1999, a time when the internet was new and just beginning to take off. Hell, most of us were still using dial up back then, hence the phones to get in and out of the Matrix. It's a great movie, and a decent enough trilogy but set in its time and poking fun at your shameless cash grab does not make it any less shameless. I suppose the one blessing is that since it's being panned by critics and fans alike, it's doubtful this monstrosity will go any further.
It's actually split. You think it's being panned because you're in your camp of haters right now. In reality it's pretty divided. There's as many people like it as hate it.
Exactly. It's the essential problem with lampshading. Just because they're pointing out the dang lampshade and cracking sly jokes at it doesn't mean it's not stupid for the lampshade to be there.
@@johnmellor932 I honestly don't know what people like about it. Even if you don't care about the martial arts....anime influences...characters that were the heart of the original trilogy....tone of the original trilogy......and you were totally into a whole new type of film..this was still a mess for what it was.
With this movie I expected them to do something with our overuse of cellphones and social media, but nothing came of it! Sucks! There was some reap potential there.
@@johnmellor932 Its walk out of the theatre bad. I have alittle self respect. I couldn't continue with this. I am a huge Matrix fan! Who is this for!?!?!
The John Wick films prove that Keanue Reeves can still perform incredibly exciting fast paced action sequences, I really have to put all of my blame for this film's lacklustre action on shoddy direction and downright appalling editing. I guess we know which of the two Wachoski's edited all the fights in the original trilogy...
Not really. If you put a twenty-year younger Keanu in a John Wick movie he'd be just as the Drinker says here. He'd move far quicker than Old Keanu moves. The only reason its passable is because the Wick movies are all highly choreographed. Watch some of the combat and you'll see Wick's opponents pause for a hair of a second so Keanu can block their punches and kicks. I'm Keanu's age and the realty is I'm just not as quick, fluid, and strong as I was twenty years ago. Aging is a bitch, and it creeps up on you ever so slowly until one day it hits you. Damn. I'm old.
Anyone who says Reeves was too old for the fight scenes….go watch John Wick 4. He’s very much not too old, it was just the script, choreography, and direction SUCKED.
Studios attempted to use diversity as an attempt to rebrand its image as friendly companies gaining its audiences. The Matrix Resurrections proved this by introducing multiple weaknesses for a franchise already destroyed by its previous sequels. Its attempts to break the fourth wall and go meta within its own universe didn't fit. Its attempts to use female empowerment and feminism as plot points for both new and returning characters are undermined by being obvious. Its attempts to paint men as mindless programs jumping out of buildings instead of spending time with their wives is meh. And its attempts to jump back and forth between the scenes of the trilogy and the film looks like it's made by people with actual mental illnesses. Also, Keanu Reeves' performance screams John Wick more than Neo.
There are so many very interesting stories that they could have told, to build this matrix-verse. Like: Morpheus and Trinity's path to search for Neo, stories of the Merovingian and his wife, stories of the twins, the keymaker, stories of Neo's predecessors. Stories of the Oracle and the choices she made that cost her so much, stories of seraph, stories of sati sand her family, stories of dozer and mouse and their families, stories of cypher's awakening and converting... Enter the Matrix and Animatrix told so many better stories than this fan film.
They should probably just leave the Matrix alone. It was a groundbreaking movie that was very much ‘of its era’, followed by two okay sequels that didn’t really need making either. I don’t need ‘more’ of them, I want to see something new and exciting. People reward Hollywood too much by going to see sequels… in herds they go and see shit like this then complain when it doesn’t meet their expectations.
Someone in the comments said there were so many stories they could’ve explored and I couldn’t agree more. My wish has always been to know what happened to the previous 5 Ones. Why did they fail? What did they do wrong and why was Neo such an anomaly compared to them? Also, I would love to know about the first Zionists and their struggles during the very early stages of the 3rd Matrix (as the architect stated that there were 2 previous failed ones). Who led them during that era? What started the war? They had sooo much content to fall back on and expand but instead they gave us rehashed scenes and Neo and Trinity as the main leads again. I love them, I really do but their comeback was so unnecessary. New leads with Neo and Trinity making cameos (like we saw in spider man 3) would have been the better option imo.
I feel like the point the architect was making in Reloaded was that the difference between Neo and the previous ones, is that he was in love and that emotion made him make different, perhaps irrational (from his pov) hard to predict, decisions. Definitely agree that there were so many other interesting stories to tell from the Matrix. Just have to look at the Animatrix to see that, which had some fantastic ideas.
Honestly they should just leave the franchise to rest. I'm not for keeping movie franchises going on for too long. I even think that no movie should go beyond a trilogy.
The difference of (Keanu) Neo from the other chosen ones was already clearly stated in the trilogy. You just didn't listen and didn't try to think. And @Arghlex, no, this is some BS. He predicted his 'irrational' choice long before. Every single chosen one chose 'The Love Door', when presented the same choice as was given in the second movie (well, those who made it to the Architect's room). The different choice of Keanu Neo from others was shown in 'Revolutions'. Don't you think it's quite obvious, given the title of the third movie?
@@masrfaker Are you saying this movie is about if Neo had chosen to take the other door instead of 'the Love Door' which given the Architects chance to upgrade and reset the Matrix universe? Kind of makes sense although they now need to make a final Matrix and tie up all the loose ends people have mentioned like those in the real world aka Zion, the worlds reaction to being woken up etc
@@monkstandinglast By 'this movie' you mean 4th part? Never seen it, and never will. It doesn't exist for me. Matrix universe ended at Revolutions. There is no logical way to incorporate Keanu as a main protagonist after Revolutions, because he already made his choice. The only way to stretch it is to name your Matrix movie 'Subvertations' (so you are soo gonna subvert expectations :D and just don't give 2caps about life-defining choices of your character). It would be possible to continue Matrix universe, but with a new protagonist, a completely new plot, that goes even further than the choice of Neo, building upon the lies, that machines created. And one more thing, choosing 'the Love Door' didn't give 'the Architects chance to upgrade and reset the Matrix universe'. He almost didn't want it. It was plan of the Oracle, and he just decided to go along with it. Re-watch the trilogy or find some clever review (though, I haven't seen any clever Matrix review in English segment)
I remember at the end of The Matrix Path of Neo, the whichouskies showed up in 8 or 16 bit pixel form and they use there "Dead names" and refer to each other as brothers. Good times before the world went mentally insane
You know the sad part is they could have explored the idea of a machine civil conflict... Neo still alive, but as code... how there could be a faction of machines aligned with humans similar to the Animatrix short films. Goes to show you evil can only corrupt not create.
Yep. Even if forced back into it, there’s a lot Lana could have done that wouldn’t have dented the mythology, and Animatrix is up there with the original.
Aye. The Pitch Meetings for this movie made this point, and you're both right. The concept of the machine civil war is super cool, but would have been faaar too much work for the lazy ass filmmaker.
What really makes you think is that the Intensions behind most movies is evil, pure profit motive, as it certainly is not art. A lot of films are primarily made to make money so in this instance we get exactly what that type of system thinks we want. Or I should say what we have been conditioned to accept. So long as the incentives are there films and art in general will continue to de-evolve into nothing more than corporate propaganda. Sad but it's happening in gaming as the push for profit is literally killing everything creative because it funnels that creativity into a limited vision.
You forgot the most important thing! The fight scenes are terrible. No body can actually fight or trained for the scenes. Who ever was the stunt or fight choreography is terrible. The original matrix had famous hk martial art choregrpahers and Chinese martial artist help train the cast. I remember the cast would train everyday for months before shooting. In this one it looks like who ever was in charge just watched a few self defence videos on RU-vid and used that
@Jip Jackson that’s just lazy and cheap! And how about Lawrence Fishburne not being invited back to film! I reckon the top guys at Warner brothers knew this was going to be a let down because usually once a films released there is clear indication of sequels. This has no indication of future films
So it wasn't just me, I kept saying "maybe it's only now cuz Neo doesn't remember being Neo" but then his 'cool Neo' moments were just him using the force to push the enemy, no hand behind his back fight style and emotionless blocking every hit he gets thrown at, also the part at the end where they fly holding hands, it looked like a Disney movie where they did a lil pirouette and went up
Totally random thing to say, but that abrupt cut at around the 4:50 mark to Tyrion throwing up had me laughing so hard my stomach hurts. Just the absolute perfect reaction to that movie's ending.
