The Matrix: Resurrections

[CaptainWacky]

I really hope there isn't a scene where the actor Keanu Reeves wakes up in bed and says "woah, I just had a dream that the movie The Marix really happened!" and then Carrie Anne Moss comes to his door and he's like "Carrie Anne, what are you doing here?" and she says "actually my name is Trinity because the movie The Matrix was, in fact, real!"

It doesn't quite do this, but the first half hour or more is really meta with Thomas Anderson as a game designer who made The Matrix as a trilogy of games (which look exactly like the movies.) And actually this the most fun stuff in the movie and not intentionally bad like that post I made!

I liked Jessica Henwick and the guy who play new Morpheus, but then he barely has anything to do for the last half of the movie and spends a lot of time as nano bot man which is a bit of a waste of a charming actor. Neil Patrick Harris was good as the villain. Jada Pinkett Smith bored me.

The worst/weirder part was having Agent Smith in it but not played by Hugo Weaving and having no real recognisable traits from the original Agent Smith. He felt like a new character so why not just make him one?

Was the new Matrix more full of bots than real people? Because at the end it seemed like every building was completely full of bots. Or were they real people who are taken over by bots like how people could be taken over by agents in the original?

We don't get much of Trinity's point of view at all which I found disappointing as her choice to leave becomes the most important thing by the end. It was nice when her and Neo were finally together and flying.

It all kind of felt and looked more like a streaming tv show than a movie so maybe it would have worked better as one of those and they could have spent more time on the cute friendly machines and stuff.

 

[whisky]

Saw it last night, not the worst matrix film, did seem more nonsensical, like watching a dream, was a little confused by how much one of the good guys looked like the new Smith, and Smith working with Neo at the end was a nice twist.

Does seem to follow the trend of an existing male hero having given up and being reminded how to be a hero again by a strong woman.