WB didn't make them do it. According to the meta explaination WB was going to do it whether they were a part of it or not, smh. I really hated all that meta crap in the movie.
@@brandonreed09 well let's see either I let you butcher my IP and do whatever you want or I take an active role in it. A more competent director could have done a better job. Lana and her sister are one hit wonders.
When they were showing Neo scenes from the first movie in the theater I was only focusing on the first movie they were playing because this movie was that bad.
@@LaSocietedesGeeksDisparu-ir4uq i dont believe wachowski couldve made a better movie, in fact matrix 2 and 3 were already declining in quality. its a cop out to make a 2 hr movie about it
Smith and Jude were the only ones who called him Tom a couple times. The rest of the time it was Neo or Mr. Anderson. Saying "everybody" called him Tom is beyond exaggeration.
I'm not sure why, but I never thought Thomas Anderson was a name that fit Keanau Reeves very well. On the other hand, I can't think of another name that works any better. He's not a Steve, Phil or David either.
Maaaan in my opinion the biggest charm of the first matrix was the wisdom and tutelage from Morpheus and the Oracle. They really made the movie for me. Keanu played his role perfectly but Morpheus made the movie otherworldly. His mystique and unexpectedness. The fact that you didn’t know if he was hero or villain in the beginning. The wisdom he was imparting. The Oracle with her one scene, life altering/philosophical/prophetic/character redefining conversation with Neo. There will never be another movie like the original matrix. Greatest movie of all time.
@@austinsavage precisely. We were on Neo’s journey of discovery with him. Self discovery. Awakening. Peeling back the layers of the world and self. So many relatable undertones and metaphorical implications of the story. I think I’ve watched it 200 times no exaggeration.
I agree the ending with trinity was out of nowhere. Even if they are meant to be equals. Neo was significantly weaker in the film so it just felt so off.
@@thereisnothinghere8829 shes not the one. Neo is the oracle says she would fall in love with the one... which means she's not the one. The writer pulled this whole movie out for a quick buck
Maybe they did and he couldn't. This movie seems like parts of it got hamstrung by other productions taking priority; they couldn't even get Hugo Weaving
@@OnslaughtSix I understand what you mean, Keanu was in pre-production for John Wick 4 so obviously he wasn't going to cut his hair, however, it is up to the director of the film to make him look the part, may be style his hair differently. It just looks like he worked off the John Wick set, and straight into this one. It wouldn't bother me that much if the film wasn't so meta that it makes so hard to immerse yourself in it.
Sure. If you watch it again, the purpose of Smith is to: 1. Bring back the character, like the others. 2. He serves as a foil to the Analyst at the end, preventing their recapture, so that he can kill them. Apparently ensuring their demise, instead of capture is vital to Smith's freedom - for reasons that aren't clear. Removing Smith would have allowed the Analyst to ensure their capture. Perhaps Smith was destroyed after they both got out of the Matrix?
It's kind of like he just 'noped' out of the movie for no reason. He could have probably just gotten away with saying 'the script says this is where I exit the movie'.
Ugh I really didn’t like this character…or even bought for a second he was Agent Smith. He gave me “romantic comedy villain” vibes …never took him as a threat once
It felt like a movie that didn't want to exist. Forced. A Matrix film with forget-able action sequences? It does little beyond make fun of itself and put down some of the achievements the characters in the previous films fought for.
There was a rant from Merovingian about sequels and reboot, even the brainstorming scene that hinting matrix resurrections is a cashgrab which kinda tells me they didn't give a sh*t
The point of this movie was a meta critique about our need to escape in fantasy to process grief. Lana Wachowski stated that this movie was born from her need to process the loss of her parents.
This was PRECISELY how I felt when the credits rolled. “What was the point? Why were there SO many tonal shifts? Am I supposed to take The Matrix seriously, or as a joke?” Literally so jumbled, which was disappointing.
The fact nobody clocked on to how Neo and Trinity are actually different people to the old one's. Not actually looking as we see them. Neo's a bald Portuguese guy and Trinity might be Karen
Terrible, depressing, incoherent, and weird. They spent over half the movie trying to legitimize and explain the changes that occurred since the prior movie. And the scripting and plot were horrible. I believe the ending was really about a transition from male to female. The "one" who used to be male is now female.
Did you forget about the fights with Keanu in the Dojo and in the bathroom with Smith? Those were awesome, wideshot fistfights right up until the final moments of them.
The " i want my money back" faces i saw at the movie theater once the end credits were rolling over that mediocre rage against the machine cover was priceless.. ... lol......ohh wait.. if that can't get any worse you should check the 15 second bonus feature after the end credits ....ohh boy,.. have your vomit bag nearby :(
I would have walked out of the theatre if I had gone instead of streaming it. I literally feel depressed now, after seeing how much they massacred this film. Wtf were they thinking? Did no one think to stop this from coming out?
The action in this was ALL forgettable unfortunately. Apart from the one bit where people were throwing themselves from sky scrapers. All was too clean and polished. Also showing the original movies in the film didn't work for me... If anything they should've made CGI reconstructions of the originals, if they're supposed to be from "a game". Some of the effects were really terrible too... like the ghosting effect first seen near the start with Morpheus. I know why it was done, because they would've made a film anyway without the Wachowskis. But it just feels lazy and generic and generic was the one thing I didn't expect from it.
Bugs run from the agents stuck with me as the best action scene. Gave me hope from the start.. She was by far the best performance in the film out of the new characters
I think the only part I really liked was the IO scenes. Seeing how Zion improved by integrating machines and programs was really cool. And seeing General Niobe was really cool. The whole movie was really confusing and the ending was cool and dramatic but it made absolutely no sense.
The fact they ended with Trinity developing powers like “The One” kills any ideology that Neo is special. They conveyed all free minds can develop into something “The One” and that goes against what Neo is in the first 3 films.
It actually rewrites the idea that "The One" was actually always both of them together, and not just one or the other, and I'm okay with that. Neo saves Trinity just as often as she saves him. This coming from someone who HATES The Wheel of Time for how much they emasculated the male characters, by the way.
@@yinzertoyguy3678 trinity got shot and would have died if Neo did not save her Neo got shot and just recoded himself. It doesn't make any narrative sense that Trinity was also the one. The Oracle and Architect explained it at length. This plot point is just thrown in from a brain storm session from people who forgot every point of the The first movie. Makes me wonder if the truly did steal the idea because since the Matrix, they've been lost as to what to do with any of the characters and plot.
Can we talk about how the new Morpheus is supposed to be a code based off the original Morpheus and the original Smith, and is literally like neither of them in any conceivable way
This movie was like a bunch of side missions in a video game, do something mindless and action oriented for no reason, get some specific item. Then do it again and again for no reason, just to move the story along. Followed by unskippable dialog with an NPC, that discusses "Important Game Lore!" Yay, Gotta love exposition dumps and so much cringe when Neo's co-workers babble on about the "Matrix Game?" What, why?..... Just a mess of a movie.
Dude, they convinced neo he was crazy by trapping him in an old mans body and not letting him see it, then had everyone around him talk about a game he created to solidify in his mind that it wasnt real….they mind fucked him so bad and it flew over most peoples heads.
One of my biggest issues was the redundancy of it all, especially in the opening sequence, telling us what we're seeing instead of continuing to elaborate the plot
Just watched it. Im crying now 😭!! Such a horrible joke! I can't believe they destroyed the original masterpiece and one of the best memoriesin ourlives!!! Damn you Lana.
The only part I laughed about was the machines made Neo's entire experience from the original movies into a popular video game he coded. It seemed like the sort of dick move the machines would do.
But also, isn't that stupid. Like shouldn't the machine brain go hey even if we disguise all this to our very best, maybe making his own memories a global media product he created wasn't such a good idea, cuz you know he could start to remember. Ooops think I just spoiled it.
The choreography of Yuen Woo Ping, the cinemtography of Bill Pope, and the music of Don Davis are sorely missed. Ultimately, the first Matrix was lightning in a bottle and the Wachowskis have been trying to convince themselves that they can recapture it over and over. Also, that cover of Wake Up was godawful! They should have used the orchestral version from the trailer.
You can tell a lot about a movie how it holds up over time. Rewatching the first original matrix is really cringe now. But it did a lot for Sci fi genre, but man these movies stink
The editor was different too. I spent some time scouring the IMDB pages trying to figure out why it felt so different to me, even when I saw the first trailer, and the absence of all of them was noticeable. Production, art, and costume designers returned so that stuff was still "on brand" as the people in the conference room said
This exactly! “It’s time for me to unplug once and for all.” I now understand that I have to let the matrix go. I’ll always have the film from 1999. But I’m done.
The acting from Keanu Reeves really let me down absolutely no emotion it was like he didn't want to be doing it, definitely out of character and the action scenes were even worse on Neos part
I saw it last night and there were like 15 people at the theater. During the whole film i was like... ive seen all this fights, action scenes, etc already. For me was a 5/10, but the sad part is that in the original trilogy at least i sort of care for the story... in this one im not interested at all for sequel. One of the things that made the original so memorable was that the agents were stone cold killers and the only option was to run, now agents feel like stun doubles at a jackie chan movie and every character will kick their asses, agent smith was a scary dude and in this one you dont have any of that. The feeling is not the same at least imo.
Precisely. In this movie, even minor characters are heroes and nobody really dies. As the audience, why should we care or develop a sense of attachment to any of the characters when the movie doesn't even really make a point of establishing why they are important and why we as the audience should care about them
matrix always had romance tho. the machines couldnt comprehend what was "love" , the first movie even shows that love awakened Neos powers, which is why after the 3rd movie trinity resurrections in the 4th she was able too unlock the same powers in the end.
@@Belowone There was a romance element to the trilogy, action being the forefront. This was much heavier into the romance, but they didn't fully commit till the last third if the movie. This movie simply didn't know what it wanted to be.
Love is the spiritual force behind their seemingly impossible abilities. Love is a universal energy but you have to feel it to understand. The point of the movie was very apparent and very important to the matrix fans that felt real love before. It's a force behind it
People bash this movie yet theyll go watch 8 retreads of Spiderman, 10 nonsensical reboots of Batman and no one says a goddam thing. Any movie can be better in unlimited hindsight but im glad they did it and i loved watching it
I was checking HBOmax every 10 minutes chomping at the bit to watch this and by the end of the movie I was pretty disappointed =( 1) The fight scenes were mostly underwhelming (Shang-Chi had better) and the movie lacked any of the amazing innovation of its predecessors. 2) It really felt like it didn't move the story forward much at all. It just retread old ground like a sight seeing tour but not in an interesting way. 3) The love story was always the least interesting part of the other films (imo) and it was even less interesting here. 4) While the performance of the Morpheus and Smith actors was good the roles really seemed off-axis with replacements. 5) That ultimate thing with Trinity was just nonsensical. There was literally no explanation for it. 6) honestly, if the whole movie was just Keanu/Anderson wrestling with his own sanity it would have been more fun.
Point 6 yes please!!!! If the whole movie was Neo's mind coming to grips with what happened while the machines ressurected him and in the end of the movie he woke up, I would've done a standing ovation.... at home... which would serve no purpose.... but I still would've done it.
Yep 6 is the right thing. They could have just use that meta-narrative, and in the last 15 minutes, go ham and revert to matrix. We could have got a nice sequel and future plot for another sequel.
I didn't even finish it. An hour and a half into the movie, in the middle of a lackluster and pointless action shootout scene I checked the time and saw an hour left and nothing resembling a point or plot to the movie up to that point.
I personally hated it. As you put it the tone was terrible, but my main issue was the way they handled trinity and the new characters. As you so excellently put it, they tried to do so much with the character in such little time it barely left you time to register. On the other hand Bugs was so underutilized it almost made me question her role in the movie. I want to see fresh faces brought to the matrix, i loved the new morpheus, but bugs felt as if she could have been switched with any other female character in the movie without any effect on the overall plot
@@adamloutsenhizer1959 i kind of dont understand your point. she was the one who saw the man (who at the time thought it could possibly be neo) trying to jump of the building and saw the man float. She IS the reason why neo is found. If it wasnt for her and her rebellious ways, neo would probably be stuck in the matrix.
@@JP-dh6ep She was amazing in the first scene, but then so underutilized it gave her no character development. There was no reason given as to why she saw that and no one else did. She could have been replaced by any other “enlightened” character
The problem with the Waschowskis is that they're amazing at high ideas, but mediocre with execution. The original Matrix worked because it had a singular idea: What is the Matrix. The entire movie then served to distill that one idea into a coherent story. Reloaded & Revolutions somehow seemed to equate bigger / louder / convoluted with better. They managed to dial it back in a little with Resurrection, but I didn't feel like they were able to seamlessly thread the meta-commentary with the nostalgia and the sequel. In fact, it all felt rather ham-fisted. I tangibly groaned at the Frenchman's commentary. It literally felt like a nagging.
I literally forgot the frenchman was in the movie. they did that character so dirty. There's no point in bringing up old characters and plot devices just to ignore them all in the name of "saving Trinity".
doing a little research, you'll find that the original Matrix's high concepts were *barely* the Wachowskis' own. The beauty of the first Matrix, besides the groundbreaking special effects & action, WAS the execution of the concepts adapted into the screenplay.
@@briansolo I know the idea of life as a simulation has long been a philosophical debate, but if not even the original Matrix was fully their own brainchild, then I wonder what the sisters are good for (based on their body of controversial work). Lana tries to preach about the matrix of "film-making" here and it feels like the lecture of a C-list weekend workshop 🤦🏻♀️
I just noticed (and I don’t know if someone else has commented on this already) that Dan has framed his movie pass card which I find hilarious and extremely on brand
It was a gift, so he didn't frame it himself... I think it is briefly brought up in a livestream. Still funny nonetheless. (I think it's been there at least a couple weeks too so probably has been brought up)
Oh that makes a lot of sense and thanks for catching that! I quite honestly thought it was a credit card and I thought well that’s odd that can’t be right?? So yeah the movie pass thing makes a lot more sense. Thanks 👍🏼
@@TJLowAsab As mentioned in the review, he's still doing John Wick movies. Action sequences aren't beyond his ability to perform. The problem in the movie is that they left him enough power to not ever experience danger, but not enough power (of any sort) to do anything cool. The entire final action scene is a bunch of stuff happening while Neo shrugs it off through the power of aggressively flinching and nope-ing the danger away. Will the bullets hit him? Not if he holds his hands up in front of his face and blocks them with a mental shield! Will the falling bodies hit him? Quick, raise your hands again and grimace harder before you're forced to experience consequences! There is no story explanation that can make boring, uncompelling action okay.
@@ferallemur 💯 and it's mostly Keanu himself doing the action scenes in John Wick, not his stunt double. He absolutely could have done it. Age in the real world doesn't matter for a Matrix avatar. It's only code as they say in the original.
I'm pretty sure nerfing Neo's powers had to do with the fact that the Machines were actively suppressing his powers for 60 years and quite literally mind-fucking him the entire time. It's like some of y'all didn't even pay attention to the reasons given for 99% of the plot. To further prove my point, he is flying at the end of the movie alongside Trinity, if they decide to make another sequel, I'm pretty sure this means that he will be back at being the powerhouse he used to be now that the machines are not able to suppress him.
Missed opportunity is the perfect description for this one. Felt like it could have been a masterpiece but got so caught up in all the different things it wanted to be that it ended up being a mess. I simultaneously loved and hated the movie and left the theater feeling so weird
What I got from the movie is that they redefined "The One" which was both Neo and Trinity all along. Instead of trying to wow us with new visuals they kind of set it up to possibly become a TV series that dives deeper into what happened over the past 60 years.
No, It wasn't Neo and Trinity all along. This is a new matrix, it's not just another iteration of the old one. Neo was the anomaly in the matrix created by the architect, but the analyst created a matrix where both Neo and Trinity are anomalies because both of them together generate way more energy than usual. The analyst explained that in his first versions he put them together but that overloaded the system so he had to put them close enough but not together in the matrix to get optimal power.
No, you all don't get it. It reverses the Adam and Eve story basically bringing Adam and Eve together again from their fall(out) with the snake, which is The Analyst or Satan. That, or is it about transvestism
Actually, Lana Wachowski is a genius! So devious. She made a movie so bad, that people will now see The matrix 2 & 3 as great films! While simultaneously destroying the IP before Warner Bros could milk it
In terms of Matrix sequels this one is at the bottom for me. I loved the 2nd and while the 3rd is a mess it is still fun. This one was just strange and seemed like it was trying to be smarter than it actually was. I agree with Dan about the action being pretty disappointing. There was not one single memorable action set-piece compared to countless in the original trilogy. Some cool moments and new characters in this one but overall it felt sort of empty
@@jonathancurran5366 3rd one is definitely a mess but I still enjoy a fair bit of it. The 2nd one though I really do think it’s a brilliant action movie. Has 45 minutes of some of the best action scenes ever running through the fight in Merovingian’s Chateau to the Highway chase. Then you have other ones throughout it like Neo’s quick fight with the agents at the start, Neo and Seraph too and then Neo vs all the Agent Smiths. Great stuff in there
Going from groundbreaking fight scenes in movie history (at least in usa) to Bourne shake camera work, by far the worst fight scene in recent history, is a betrayal bigger than Cypher. I understand you can’t re-invent the wheel in terms of SFX, since the original Matrix we had 20 years of Nolan, Snyder, Marvel e etc. But to settle for mediocre, man that’s hurts.
This movie was full of exposition and the action was lackluster. I gave The Matrix Resurrections a 4/10. I gave the original trilogy 10, 8, and 7 respectively.
Not bad scores man. The second and third were not great BUT, seen within the architecture of the trilogy, they just about work. This one was just crammed together nonsense.
The meta commentary was so overwhelming, I was waiting for Lana Wachowski to be in the mirror when Neo see’s how the rest of the world saw him in the new Matrix.
I seen an article that said the executives at Warner Bros begged the wachowski sisters for years to do a matrix 4 even tho they felt the story was over after the trilogy. One of the two eventually caved and u can really see in the writing at the beginning 30 mins of the movie… that she didn’t really wanna make this movie. The meta commentary about studios forcing sequels was cringe. All in all …it was okay, I agree that I like matrix 1 & 2 more than resurrection and matrix 3 the least
Lana has said it was her idea to make the movie in response to both of her parents dying as an exercise in grieving, they didn't just drive a truck with 800 billion dollars up to her house and convince her to do it.
Hey we stopped at the same point! I stopped with an hour left and then I figured I’d force myself to watch the rest. I could only make 15 more minutes before giving up. This movie was straight garbage
@@Ghost-jy9hk haha, I kept waiting for at least a decently choreographed and shot action sequence to scrape some redemption off the walls of this mess. We always have the first Matrix! The subway scene with Smith still gives me chills!
Imagine if they had let Neo overcome the new slowed time ability of the Analyst so that he and maybe even trinity as well could fight him at that level, rather than just having it canceled out by Smith with no real explanation. We could've had Matrix fights with time manipulation, or even just frozen time fights something a kin to when Flash fought Superman in the Justice League movie. Imagine them fighting within a slowed down time where they punch through walls or buildings etc, and the debree is sent up flying all around them, but time is too slow for the debree to clear so they are just fighting through all this floating glass or jumping off of falling chunks of buildings etc. I mean they could've done so much more with this!
They F'ed it up! I already knew this movie sucked before watching this review but used this as a test of your movie reviewing skills. You PASSED! Thank you fine sir!
The Animatrix shows that there’s a ton of interesting stories that can be told within this universe. WB need to take this IP well away from the Wachowski’s if they ever want to use it again, if they haven’t already buried it for good. The Unreal Engine tech demo showed that fans still have a ton of goodwill for the franchise.
Just watched it through this morning, the second renaissance is always chilling but man, the animatrix is leagues better than resurrections. My own opinion but I’m sure I’m not alone
@@peeko_luxx2873 the second renaissance is amazing, I’d love to see a big budget live action version of that. Directed by somebody capable, not the Wachowskis.
i was really into the movie for the first like 30 minutes. but then they just kept talking and talking and talking and the whole trash with zion. i think its obvious to everybody that the genius of the first matrix was 100% a fluke
I enjoyed it. I liked the sequels too though… I like the matrix. The only thing I missed was that we didn’t have anything really groundbreaking and it annoyed me that neo just force pushed everything.
The first half of this film is next level bad, meta to the point where its a film essay parody and not a film and Morpheus just Deadpooling it until the halfway point where it finally picks up the story from part 3. Action also is weak and poorly shot and edited. Once the story focuses on rescuing Trinity, it picks up and is fairly engaging...until the film just kinda stops and ends. Apparently there wont be a part 5 so what an underwhelming entry
Agree. The meta flashbacks and non stop commentary on the first films is so bad. The second half it becomes watchable. The action scenes were so underwhelming from the previous films.
@@reyalexandro Yuen Wo Ping is sorely missed here. People say he was just choreographer but he actually had a say where the camera should be, where and how the camera moves and where the edits should be in the fight scene. This is just American style shoot the whole thing in wide, insert shaky close ups and then ask the editor for a miracle....
Ikr! I always felt one of the reasons why they gave Neo the ability to literally stop bullets was to justify more hand to hand combat in the movie series. This movie seems to have completely lost that. They just keep trying to should him or blow him up 🤦♂️
@@brandonreed09 the first fight with fake trinity triggered the hell out of me….none of these fights were even choreographed correctly they were all over the place and randomly and goofy as fuck. What movie did other people see? Are just going to ignore films like the Raid, shit even something like shang chi or idk…THE FIRST MATRIX FILM.
One of the biggest complaint that I've mention on the comment section is that have not yet heard anybody in a single video talk about yet is that not a single main character not even the side character has died throughout this movie, now that's what you call serious plot armor.
Cloud Atlas (2012) is their unequivocal magnum opus. It's one of a short list for our generation's "2001 A Space Odyssey," in that it was misunderstood in its own time but in the subsequent years of people contemplating the many things it was saying, finally allowed for the masses to grow and understand its grandeur.
@@sakuragi1062 I understand this type of response. I mean what Cloud A. was attempting was something new and we as consumers are generally not kind to the "new." I also get that nobody wants homework after watching a flick and we're not accustomed to movies with 6 timelines! and just as many protagonists! But time will justifiably serve this movie well. Don't believe me? Here's what Tom Hanks and Lana Wachowski had to say about it years later: Tom Hanks: In 2013, he stated "I've seen it three times now and discovered, I swear to God, different, profound things with each viewing." In a 2017 interview, he called it "a movie that altered my entire consciousness", stating "it's the only movie I've been in that I've seen more than twice." Lana W. in a 2015 interview with the Toronto Sun: “When we think of the movie we imagine we’ll be remembered for, I think it’s going to be Cloud Atlas because it touches people in a way most movies don’t,” Lana says. “And that kind of impact endures whereas the coolness factor of Matrix will eventually wear off.”
If the machines were going to put Neo and Trinity back into the pods, why did they fix their bodies? Making them alive enough to plug in would make more sense. Fixing Neo’s eyes made 0 sense to me.
If they used only their DNA to rebuild them, then there's no reason for any injury to be there, because DNA doesn't store that kind of information. If they used their own data (Matrix data, like what they did with the strawberries at Io), then the latest info would be blind-by-burn Neo and impaled-by-parts-of-the-ship Trinity?
You pretty much nailed my thoughts on this film. Now, I'm one that actually enjoys Reloaded and Revolution. When I first saw them, my mind found an explanation for what I was seeing and I really enjoyed the action. This movie, though, I still found an explanation but I found the action to really lack that "Matrix-y" feel. I did enjoy seeing a lot of the actors from Sense8 get main roles.
@@colonelccccc The lack of Mr. Anderson... from Smith is a huge cringe. The movie wasn't bad but in my opinion I feel likes the Worst Matrix out the series. They went everywhere with this one. Honestly it doesn't even seem Canon or connected to the main story. More like this was it's own unique Movie with the Title "Matrix". I enjoyed the Movie too, plenty of 4th wall and Easter eggs in the Movie that caught my attention. Other that, this movie lacked Action, waaaay too much talking. Felt like Matrix by Edger Allen Poe, which isn't that bad just saying it felt like I was watching Syfi play at Broadway. Good movie, weird direction.
I loved reloaded. Revolutions was ok. The beginning felt like a different film. If Hugo Weaving came back as smith and had his moment vs the analyst. I’m sorry but when Jonathan Groff slapped the gun out of the analysts hand that was the gayest slap I’ve ever seen lol. I love Groff but this was dumb. I laughed out loud when they were straining to reach each other. Although I did feel good when their older selves see each other for the first time in the real world. But fight scenes felt lazy and slow.
After watching this movie twice now, I'm still left with the exact same question I had when I first heard it was being made: why do we need this movie? what's the point? I still don't know. I agree with this and other reviews. It was fun while watching it but it was also ultimately disappointing.
I feel physically assaulted by Lana Wachowski with all her meta commentary. Felt like I was punched in the face with all her issues it was that blunt. No subtlety whatsoever, making a bunch of characters talk like they’ve never had real conversations before. It’s a cobbled together mess of movie, that felt like four separate jigsaws smashed together. Also, Jessica Henwick carries so much of this film.
Matrix 4: We F up the last ending, and so this is a better one. Anyways, some movies are not meant to exist, just like Prometheus, Aliens: Ressurection, and Covenant.
I share your thoughts pretty heavily. It was very similar for me to the Breaking Bad sequel movie, it just kinda felt like Lana Wachowski wasn’t happy with the ending of Revolutions and wanted the franchise to have a different ending lmao IMO, Bugs should have been the main character and Neo/Trinity’s story should have served as the inciting incident for her story. It kinda felt like the third act forgot about all of our newcomer characters.
I don't understand what happened to Bullet Time. It looks different from The Matrix films. I was delighted to see Keanu Reeves playing as Neo, Carrie Anne Moss as Trinity and Jada Pinkett Smith as Niobe. But for Morphius and Agent Smith were replaced by different actors such as Jonathan Groff and Yahya Adul-Mateen second. I haven't seen the movie yet but I will when it comes out.
There is a lot of creativity in the film, but a lack of creative vision. When we got back to IO I was thinking this felt like a saturday morning cartoon.
Because I see a lot of comments about how the movie is missing the green tint in the matrix, just remember at the end of the 3rd the machines and humans found peace and reset the matrix in a new colorful reset world. That’s why it’s so vibrant in this one
1. I hated that the new Smith called Neo Mr. Anderson only twice and the rest of the movie Tom. 2. Laurence Fishburne should have been in this movie as Morpheus. 3. When you mix action with extremely predictable, that makes it boring. 4. Where is the golden code? 5. Making anyone an agent was a mistake... I like it when the matrix took a human battery and morph it into an agent dressed in a black suit and dark sunglasses. 6. Where is the back story for Merovingian, and why did he just leave as if he became bored with the whole situation. 7. Not having the green hue that we like and recognized when in the Matrix was another big mistake. 8. Another big mistake is making Trinity the same as Neo, ergo "The One" which now makes it *The Two* 😡 9. Having the new version of agent Smith become the hero was just ridiculous!
Yeah... Idk why. But part of me felt like there was many things wrong with this movie. Idk why. I couldn't find... Now we have two Ones? So so confusing
@@TheSeeWhatiSee Remember what Smith said... He could be anyone. Smith and Neo are very much the same. It's easy. "The One" (not Neo) source code imprinted on Trinity, much like The One's source code imprinted on Smith in the original. Remember the time Neo resurrected Trinity? ;) part of The One's code imprinted then.
@@zioncommand I feel like doing that is more of allegory for Lana's transition from a man to woman. The power of The One was originally in a man in the original films, but is now in a woman.
The meta stuff could have been interesting if it actually went anywhere and the continuation from 3 makes sense within the lore. Really my biggest problem with the movie is that it needed to have its exposition cut down by like an hour. It was too long and explained way to much in ways that weren't very fun.
I loved it. Such a badass story. I really liked how it wasnt a neo vs smith movie all over again. I liked the way neo was in a way reincarnated and made a game of his memories and its his game that woke him up and the charactors in the game entered the matrix to help remind him who he is. Such a wild concept. Also like the arc with neo and trinity becoming the oracle and architect. Not as good as 1. But way better than 2 and 3
@@Brythemagicguy1 I will be completely honest (cuz I'm just an honest kinda guy) I was genuinely confused at what was going on with this movie. But I'm careful not to go around saying this is because the movie sucks or is convoluted. I recognize it's entirely possible it's a great movie and I'm just too stupid to keep up. haha I was so confused!!!
Me too. I got excited when they walked out from the mirror. I was expecting finally some action but then started talking and explaining sh*t. I was done. The self awareness was overwhelming and the film stupid. It's also very wordy. Too many wacky woke words. Too much explaining and explaining. I walked out from it.
This movie was Exposition: The Movie and is frankly incomprehensible if you haven’t seen the first 3. There were great concepts with terrible execution where it is the worst sequel. The action wasn’t impressive. What a huge disappointment.
It wasn't a huge disappointment for me, because I didn't watch the film for its entertainment per se, I watched it for its message, and it did try to explain some things that were very important, and the value of that information is greater than the entertainment of the fight scenes. The film spent some time with characters like Jude or the employees brainstorming over the next Matrix IV video game to discuss what the Matrix is all about, many of the sayings in which we, the audience, suggest or talk about when trying to interpret the film. In other words, it's telling the audience that most of the interpretations that we are giving toward the Matrix film are not truly what the film is about. It's also communicating to us that we're focusing on the wrong things, such as when one of the employees asks the question "when you think of the matrix, what do you think about?", and someone says *"bullet-time"* as one employee does the famous Neo Dodge move and another employee pulls out of toy pistol jokingly, implying that we're distracted by the entertainment aspect or the fight scenes which is distracting from the truth. In other words, the film is directly responding to your point. It's saying that people are distracted from the core message because of the type of reasoning about Matrix we do that doesn't lead to its core message or to what is ultimately true. The film is communicating that the only thing which ultimately matters is the core message, and anything other than the core message is a distraction. I agree with you though, the fight scenes were not that great, there was not a lot of action, most of it was dialogue, and comparing how the punches and kicks were with the Matrix Reloaded and revolution fight scenes are much different. There was more "form" and elegance in the fight scenes of Matrix 1 through 3 and not as much in 4. However, there's still something extremely important about the core message that Towers (big time) over the fight scenes, and this message made the film *more* than worth watching.
@@Bi0Dr01d I don’t need a lot of action in any movie and a good message doesn’t make the movie itself good. That doesn’t make any movie worth watching.
@@Bi0Dr01d What is more important is whether the movie is actually good. A bad movie can have a good message where plenty do, but that doesn’t make it a worthwhile watch. The message frankly means nothing if it was executed poorly. A much better movie this year is Pig which is all about showing empathy and Nicolas Cage as the main character plays Rob. The trailer makes it seem like it’s another John Wick with getting his pig back, but nope, it certainly is not. Rob gives up his riches to live out in the woods which you find out later and doesn’t fight someone to figure out what happened to the pig. I didn’t watch 12 Years a Slave to be entertained even though that’s also a great movie. A movie by the way that is also much better this year than The Matrix Resurrections is Nine Days which is all about existential questions with pragmatism versus optimism. It deals with suicide as well. There is no right answer where you have your preference with how you view life with the questions asked, but that is worth watching a lot more than The Matrix Resurrections. Winston Duke should be nominated for an Oscar as the lead and his character also shows empathy.
@@DanV900 I understand your passionate about your views, but we're speaking on two different planes. I don't expect you to understand what I'm saying because I haven't explained myself because I have to see where the heart of the person is that I'm speaking with, because every person is already subconsciously choosing the red or blue 🔴🔵.
I think the reasoning for the lazy feeling hands out force power type thing is exactly what you insinuated at the beginning of the faults of the sequels. Lana is trying to be too hyper cerebral and outthink the expectation. Perhaps here taking it too literally as well. Yes an omnipotent being would likely not have to do much physical combat or bullet dodging. But I think it would be easily more impressive and less degrading for Neo to just will bullets to stop without any motion at all. But of course we see later that this is also used to imply his sort of faltering amounts of power in order to lift the female ONE to a more supreme and luminous pedestal. I mean they just make him so weak at the end, and I begged in my mind that they wouldn’t have Neo and Trinity both flying off separately after pushing the fact that Neo cannot fly even when absolutely necessary and with the company of Trinity numerous times directly before. Yet there they both go in to the sunset. I guess Neo found his Mojo just a couple scenes too late to make it into this end fight sequence. DARN
I loved #1, liked 2, hated 3. This is, I dunno, a shade less than like, but I didn't hate the movie. What I did hate was leaving out Huge Weaving and Laurence Fishburne. Even the music sorely missed Don Davis + Juno Reactor. Glad I didn't spend theater money on it at least, just watched it on my comfy couch.
I thought Morpheus was about to say Candyman at one point in front of a mirror with Neo. His character was very uneven, and I had no idea of the rules for power levels, or anything really. There are jarring cuts, some in the middle of action scenes, that just didn’t make sense at all, and there’s never anything to bring us back or realize why they stop following the set piece. Example: Caracter T is holding character N on the rooftop with the missiles…after they had just had a long chase to find an exit, then it just cuts and they’re back to safety. It was odd to say the least.
Excellent review. Watched on hbo max. Would never have seen this if I had to pay for it. This is a story that’s out of gas. They repeated the things that didn’t work in 2 and 3. To be honest, it felt like a diatribe from someone who is in a state of confusion
She is a good actress no doubt about that. But think about it, she basically is Morpheus one to one! Only without motivation! Morpheus did all that cause he believed in "the one" to free humanity... Bug did free neo for what exactly? Cause he's a cool dude and a legend? Cause nobody knew he was alive? Her character arch was so dull! She is Morpheus in bad without any reason for her actions...
I agree with you to some extent, but that has more to do with the writing than it does her acting performance. I think that the two "leads" seemed disinterested and I'm not sure if that was the writing or what, but as a huge Keanu fan I was a little bit let down by him. I also think that my expectations were way to high for this movie though so I might have been let down no matter what lol
@@SadAngelCrying they freed Neo because he was a prisoner. Just like why they freed all the other people besides Neo in the original trilogy. The One isn't the only one that deserved to be free.
The Wachowski’s will forever be one-hit-wonder filmmakers and I’m ok with that. After watching all 5 films in The Matrix franchise this past week it suddenly struck me how lackluster all 3 sequels are. Anamatrix and the original film is all you need.
You condensed heavily the mix of emotions I felt as I finished this film. The commentary on momentum and missed opportunities hit hard. There were so many threads like a mixture of smith/morpheus - so many plot threads you could pull, so much drama you could write. They had commentary on not needing phonebooths anymore but never expanding on it. They sort of hinted or showcased an entire machine civil war post neo's victory but mum about it beyond purge and fallout. There was so many ideas that leapt at me from the film that I thought could've sold a better plot than what I was given. I agree with the whole mixed bag of convoluted meta -- callbacks and flits from the first trilogy while forcing you to see clips of the old films while actors are trying to act their scenes or even comment on the stuff they're re-shooting/framing. Wild. Thanks for echoing a lot of my feelings/thoughts. Cheers.
There were some pacing issues with the film. The reason they didn't need phone booths is because they move in and out of the Matrix through mirrors or windows. Niobe jailed Neo because she needed to know why the machines revived him and Trinity. The Analyst states that the more he manipulates and torments Neo & Trinity, the more energy they produce. That he's been hitting productivity records "since he took over." This may imply that the scarcity for electricity that drove the machines to civil war may have subsided because of this, restoring peace.
@@jonathanclemens3755 Yeah. That whole Niobe, Zion, Io dialogue sequence could have been a great movie/limited series of its own...hell, even an actual 'Matrix' video game premise!
A lot of the negative reviews already capture my reactions to the film - fight scenes that are kinda similar to the original trilogy, but lacking in grace and beauty, blizzards of bullets that somehow hit nobody, choppy pace and tons of boring-ass infodumps - but what I am puzzled about is what the heck is going on with the narrative. A topic more suited to a post-watch debate between friends than a review, but the movie seems trapped in its own matrix. The set of ideas has barely budged from the original trilogy. Ok Zion is now Io, and there are some cute new machines modeled on deep-sea creatures, but we are back to toggling between a corporate virtual world and the gloomy, post-nuclear(?) "real" world, and it's as if nothing in the trilogy had ever occurred. What exactly is going on in the machine ecosystem? Why do the machines do any of the stuff they do? Do they also harbor the desires and fears that they keep chiding the humans for? If they do not have desires, why go on? Even the desire for survival is a desire.
Yea at one point when morphoues was in the real world , I thought they were going to dove I. What reality is and that the matrix and real world is no different since we can go into there world and the AI/machines can be in our world …. But it didn’t …. I thought it was going to question was reality is and not a love story .
You said everything I felt in this movie. My husband and I were laughing at the first part of the movie. I said, “it’s self-aware now.” Then I kept expecting some new, awesome, technological advance, and it was just the same old thing as 20 years ago. I’m with you. I thought Keanu should have been kicking way more butt. The action in the first movie was so much better than this. At the end, I thought, “and that’s how this ends?” Smith was a waste and him calling Neo “Tom” was lame. His name is Mr. Anderson to you!
I kind of felt like Neo was ready in the latter half of the movie to have a warm milk and a nap. Remember when he was young and had his first thrilling fight with Smith? I member!
I really like that they didn't even try to make New Smith do a shitty attempt at Hugo Weaving's Smith, you THINK you want that but I really don't think you do. Hugo's Smith is iconic, nothing can compare.
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What I did appreciate was the Wachowskis basically telling us why this film exists in the first 20 minutes. WARNER BROS MADE EM DO IT
moooney. but it was nice of lana to hint that its a scam. she didn't have to do that. she's actually telling us.
She left us a back door in the coding. ;)
WB didn't make them do it. According to the meta explaination WB was going to do it whether they were a part of it or not, smh. I really hated all that meta crap in the movie.
EXACTLY! Once I heard that I just watched to see how'd they'd do it
@@brandonreed09 well let's see either I let you butcher my IP and do whatever you want or I take an active role in it. A more competent director could have done a better job. Lana and her sister are one hit wonders.
honestly the part when they showed machines fighting other machines looked like a better movie from what we actually got
When they were showing Neo scenes from the first movie in the theater I was only focusing on the first movie they were playing because this movie was that bad.
I wanted to know more info about that
@@LaSocietedesGeeksDisparu-ir4uq i dont believe wachowski couldve made a better movie, in fact matrix 2 and 3 were already declining in quality. its a cop out to make a 2 hr movie about it
Well at least now neo has the power of Benny hinn
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Everybody calling neo “Tom” annoyed the crap out of me. He’s either Neo, or Mr. Anderson!
That's deadnamin' baby.
Mr. annddeeerrsooonnnn
Smith and Jude were the only ones who called him Tom a couple times. The rest of the time it was Neo or Mr. Anderson. Saying "everybody" called him Tom is beyond exaggeration.
@@neofromthewarnerbrothersic145 Nairobi even called him Tom. Smith should call him mr. Anderson.
I'm not sure why, but I never thought Thomas Anderson was a name that fit Keanau Reeves very well. On the other hand, I can't think of another name that works any better. He's not a Steve, Phil or David either.
Maaaan in my opinion the biggest charm of the first matrix was the wisdom and tutelage from Morpheus and the Oracle. They really made the movie for me. Keanu played his role perfectly but Morpheus made the movie otherworldly. His mystique and unexpectedness. The fact that you didn’t know if he was hero or villain in the beginning. The wisdom he was imparting. The Oracle with her one scene, life altering/philosophical/prophetic/character redefining conversation with Neo. There will never be another movie like the original matrix. Greatest movie of all time.
That's because you look at skin color.
But I do agree that nobody can do morphed but Lawrence Fishburne.
@@theconsciousobserver6829 exactly 😂😂
@@austinsavage precisely. We were on Neo’s journey of discovery with him. Self discovery. Awakening. Peeling back the layers of the world and self. So many relatable undertones and metaphorical implications of the story. I think I’ve watched it 200 times no exaggeration.
The Oracle was a program from the Machine world. Her tutelage was a lie.
I agree the ending with trinity was out of nowhere. Even if they are meant to be equals. Neo was significantly weaker in the film so it just felt so off.
Because shes a woman, stunning and brave
They said "binary" so many times I figure she is The Zero to match Neo being The One
@@thereisnothinghere8829 shes not the one. Neo is the oracle says she would fall in love with the one... which means she's not the one. The writer pulled this whole movie out for a quick buck
@@thereisnothinghere8829 You are not the one Barry. We are.
The trinity ending is out of nowhere it retcons the last three films lol
The fact they didn't ask Keanu to look at least different from his John Wick look tells how much effort went into this film.
Maybe they did and he couldn't. This movie seems like parts of it got hamstrung by other productions taking priority; they couldn't even get Hugo Weaving
I thought the same at first but I think some parts of shooting or reshoots overlapped with John Wick 4 so maybe he couldn't change it.
That didn't really bother me, the look works for him. He looked a lot older with his head shaved.
@@OnslaughtSix I understand what you mean, Keanu was in pre-production for John Wick 4 so obviously he wasn't going to cut his hair, however, it is up to the director of the film to make him look the part, may be style his hair differently. It just looks like he worked off the John Wick set, and straight into this one.
It wouldn't bother me that much if the film wasn't so meta that it makes so hard to immerse yourself in it.
@@danisalusha5739 meta? What do you mean by that?
Can we talk about how removing Smith from this movie would change absolutely nothing?
Sure. If you watch it again, the purpose of Smith is to:
1. Bring back the character, like the others.
2. He serves as a foil to the Analyst at the end, preventing their recapture, so that he can kill them. Apparently ensuring their demise, instead of capture is vital to Smith's freedom - for reasons that aren't clear.
Removing Smith would have allowed the Analyst to ensure their capture. Perhaps Smith was destroyed after they both got out of the Matrix?
Apart from him saving Neo in the confrontation with the Analyst?
It's kind of like he just 'noped' out of the movie for no reason. He could have probably just gotten away with saying 'the script says this is where I exit the movie'.
@@aeroripperhow do you not get that he was the swarm?
Ugh I really didn’t like this character…or even bought for a second he was Agent Smith. He gave me “romantic comedy villain” vibes …never took him as a threat once
It felt like a movie that didn't want to exist. Forced. A Matrix film with forget-able action sequences? It does little beyond make fun of itself and put down some of the achievements the characters in the previous films fought for.
There was a rant from Merovingian about sequels and reboot, even the brainstorming scene that hinting matrix resurrections is a cashgrab which kinda tells me they didn't give a sh*t
The point of this movie was a meta critique about our need to escape in fantasy to process grief. Lana Wachowski stated that this movie was born from her need to process the loss of her parents.
I kind of feel like I was going to avoid spoilers, but then I was thinking to myself, what real spoilers were there to spoil?
The first hour of the movie is complaining about having to make the movie. It seemed like a funny or die skit, it just felt completely surreal.
Its much better if you watch it as a comedy lol
This was PRECISELY how I felt when the credits rolled. “What was the point? Why were there SO many tonal shifts? Am I supposed to take The Matrix seriously, or as a joke?” Literally so jumbled, which was disappointing.
The fact nobody clocked on to how Neo and Trinity are actually different people to the old one's. Not actually looking as we see them. Neo's a bald Portuguese guy and Trinity might be Karen
I'm surprised no one mentioned those zombie-like people. Am I the only one who noticed that?
I took it as a joke
I agree! They need to make it a series!
Terrible, depressing, incoherent, and weird. They spent over half the movie trying to legitimize and explain the changes that occurred since the prior movie. And the scripting and plot were horrible. I believe the ending was really about a transition from male to female. The "one" who used to be male is now female.
I think you have a point here. I never thought of this.
Uh.
What.
They both have the same powers lmao
so devoid of idea that they had to use much of the previous films to substantiate it
I think the idea is that "the one" is both male and female at the same time. Neo and trinity is one entity.
Because the director is now a female
"Keep the camera steady...I want the audience to see. Our work lasts forever. " - Jackie Chan
That bullet train and the coffee shop fight scenes were pathetic. Like it was made by a first year film student...
Did you forget about the fights with Keanu in the Dojo and in the bathroom with Smith? Those were awesome, wideshot fistfights right up until the final moments of them.
@@emptyblank099a absolutely terrible fight scenes right!! I couldn’t believe what the hell I was watching
@@emptyblank099a but…..bullet time…
@@Aximus383no they weren’t.
Felt like I was watching a TV movies at times. How is a movie 20 years later inferior in every sense possible compared to the original Matrix.
OMG! 💯 💯! How the heck is EVERYTHING so much worse! This goes way beyond just a "let down"- this is cinema heresy. And the zombies! What the heazzzy!
yup like a netflix series
There were shots and scenes that looked like they came straight from a low bubdget DTV movie!
I just wanted them to explore the machine world/society more since that's still the most interesting part of this series.
In a sense it is 👀 hahaha
The " i want my money back" faces i saw at the movie theater once the end credits were rolling over that mediocre rage against the machine cover was priceless.. ... lol......ohh wait.. if that can't get any worse you should check the 15 second bonus feature after the end credits ....ohh boy,.. have your vomit bag nearby
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@@ThePROFESS10NAL yep.. that was a mediocre cover.. when you tough it coudnt get any worse... BOOM .. lol
I would have walked out of the theatre if I had gone instead of streaming it. I literally feel depressed now, after seeing how much they massacred this film. Wtf were they thinking? Did no one think to stop this from coming out?
I was so disappointed and let down by this movie.
@@ThePROFESS10NAL lmao I was like GAWD DAMNIT.
Did they “Luke Skywalker “ Neo?
The action in this was ALL forgettable unfortunately. Apart from the one bit where people were throwing themselves from sky scrapers. All was too clean and polished. Also showing the original movies in the film didn't work for me... If anything they should've made CGI reconstructions of the originals, if they're supposed to be from "a game".
Some of the effects were really terrible too... like the ghosting effect first seen near the start with Morpheus. I know why it was done, because they would've made a film anyway without the Wachowskis. But it just feels lazy and generic and generic was the one thing I didn't expect from it.
Bugs run from the agents stuck with me as the best action scene. Gave me hope from the start.. She was by far the best performance in the film out of the new characters
That was the point to truly dead the series
I think the only part I really liked was the IO scenes. Seeing how Zion improved by integrating machines and programs was really cool. And seeing General Niobe was really cool. The whole movie was really confusing and the ending was cool and dramatic but it made absolutely no sense.
The fact they ended with Trinity developing powers like “The One” kills any ideology that Neo is special. They conveyed all free minds can develop into something “The One” and that goes against what Neo is in the first 3 films.
yea once trinity started flying I turned off.
Pretty sure it’s cuz the brothers are sisters now. Had to empower the female lead.
@@xmateinc I did too
It actually rewrites the idea that "The One" was actually always both of them together, and not just one or the other, and I'm okay with that. Neo saves Trinity just as often as she saves him. This coming from someone who HATES The Wheel of Time for how much they emasculated the male characters, by the way.
@@yinzertoyguy3678 trinity got shot and would have died if Neo did not save her
Neo got shot and just recoded himself.
It doesn't make any narrative sense that Trinity was also the one. The Oracle and Architect explained it at length.
This plot point is just thrown in from a brain storm session from people who forgot every point of the The first movie.
Makes me wonder if the truly did steal the idea because since the Matrix, they've been lost as to what to do with any of the characters and plot.
Can we talk about how the new Morpheus is supposed to be a code based off the original Morpheus and the original Smith, and is literally like neither of them in any conceivable way
well said ! so puzzling though
Maybe it was Will Smith
He's face when he said I am morpheus, and he took the red pill it was at that point that I stopped watching! It ruined everything.
Big mistake with Morpheus it was terrible
They really should have kept Smith dead. It made no sense bringing him back.
This movie was like a bunch of side missions in a video game, do something mindless and action oriented for no reason, get some specific item. Then do it again and again for no reason, just to move the story along. Followed by unskippable dialog with an NPC, that discusses "Important Game Lore!" Yay, Gotta love exposition dumps and so much cringe when Neo's co-workers babble on about the "Matrix Game?" What, why?..... Just a mess of a movie.
Lmfao accurate
@@SubliminalCrazy Thanks mate, that was a hilariously bad movie. Truly a cringe comedy masterpiece.
Dude. Yes.
@@missxspencer1538 They ruined an entire franchise, with that dumpster fire they called a movie. "It was all a game, bro!". Wow, what a twist...
Dude, they convinced neo he was crazy by trapping him in an old mans body and not letting him see it, then had everyone around him talk about a game he created to solidify in his mind that it wasnt real….they mind fucked him so bad and it flew over most peoples heads.
One of my biggest issues was the redundancy of it all, especially in the opening sequence, telling us what we're seeing instead of continuing to elaborate the plot
Nah, it's not redundant. It was the director telling us that WB made her do it, although she didn't want to.
Y’all sleep
@@johan2 basically a meta movie
Just watched it. Im crying now 😭!! Such a horrible joke! I can't believe they destroyed the original masterpiece and one of the best memoriesin ourlives!!! Damn you Lana.
The original movie is fine. Nothing bad happened to it. To say otherwise is bullshit.
Yeah it is heart breaking
Its WB's fault
The only part I laughed about was the machines made Neo's entire experience from the original movies into a popular video game he coded. It seemed like the sort of dick move the machines would do.
The Merowinger was funny (the French guy)
The only part I enjoyed was the Warner bros meta joke about doing the new trilogy “games” with or without “neo”.
But also, isn't that stupid. Like shouldn't the machine brain go hey even if we disguise all this to our very best, maybe making his own memories a global media product he created wasn't such a good idea, cuz you know he could start to remember. Ooops think I just spoiled it.
It's a clever way to control and explain any memories neo may have had.
@@travl4205 That's what I'm talking about. People weren't able to understand what was going on and thats why people are complaining.
The choreography of Yuen Woo Ping, the cinemtography of Bill Pope, and the music of Don Davis are sorely missed. Ultimately, the first Matrix was lightning in a bottle and the Wachowskis have been trying to convince themselves that they can recapture it over and over.
Also, that cover of Wake Up was godawful! They should have used the orchestral version from the trailer.
You can tell a lot about a movie how it holds up over time. Rewatching the first original matrix is really cringe now. But it did a lot for Sci fi genre, but man these movies stink
Animatrix is great 👍👍👍 too
The editor was different too. I spent some time scouring the IMDB pages trying to figure out why it felt so different to me, even when I saw the first trailer, and the absence of all of them was noticeable. Production, art, and costume designers returned so that stuff was still "on brand" as the people in the conference room said
@@leivaandre the fuck are you talking about??
@@leivaandre what’s cringe about the first matrix!???
This exactly! “It’s time for me to unplug once and for all.” I now understand that I have to let the matrix go. I’ll always have the film from 1999. But I’m done.
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They didn’t write it it’s clear This is why the first matrix is what it is they wanted them to reproduce something they could and reproduce
I watched it at home. I was entertained, but I'm glad I didn't waste the effort, time, and money going to the theater. I'm 'unplugged' as well
Yeah its done and the furst is all that matters
@@darealberrygarcia right
I made it about 40 minutes into the film and I had to stop. More power to you guys for sticking with it
The acting from Keanu Reeves really let me down absolutely no emotion it was like he didn't want to be doing it, definitely out of character and the action scenes were even worse on Neos part
People in the theater were falling asleep. One guy was still asleep when everyone was leaving during the credits
The matrix had memorable characters. The characters in this film feel just forgettable.
The Matrix 4 made Jupiter Ascending look like a Göd damn masterpiece!
no :)
Jupiter Ascending was way worst than I remember
Agreed!! That movie left me so confused....
I saw it last night and there were like 15 people at the theater. During the whole film i was like... ive seen all this fights, action scenes, etc already. For me was a 5/10, but the sad part is that in the original trilogy at least i sort of care for the story... in this one im not interested at all for sequel. One of the things that made the original so memorable was that the agents were stone cold killers and the only option was to run, now agents feel like stun doubles at a jackie chan movie and every character will kick their asses, agent smith was a scary dude and in this one you dont have any of that. The feeling is not the same at least imo.
For a second I felt I was watching your typical summer thrill zombie movie
Box Office Train Wreck incoming. Despite paid shills and trolls saying they loved it.
Precisely. In this movie, even minor characters are heroes and nobody really dies. As the audience, why should we care or develop a sense of attachment to any of the characters when the movie doesn't even really make a point of establishing why they are important and why we as the audience should care about them
5/10 what’re you smoking? It’s a 1/10 if not 0/10
The closest thing I can categorize this movie as a genre is as a romantic movie.
matrix always had romance tho. the machines couldnt comprehend what was "love" , the first movie even shows that love awakened Neos powers, which is why after the 3rd movie trinity resurrections in the 4th she was able too unlock the same powers in the end.
@@Belowone There was a romance element to the trilogy, action being the forefront. This was much heavier into the romance, but they didn't fully commit till the last third if the movie. This movie simply didn't know what it wanted to be.
Love is the spiritual force behind their seemingly impossible abilities. Love is a universal energy but you have to feel it to understand. The point of the movie was very apparent and very important to the matrix fans that felt real love before. It's a force behind it
Yea that's not a bad thing with this plot that perfectly parallels reality
@@michaelstewart3986 Bro!!!!
They will never get anywhere near the lightning in a bottle of the first film.
People bash this movie yet theyll go watch 8 retreads of Spiderman, 10 nonsensical reboots of Batman and no one says a goddam thing. Any movie can be better in unlimited hindsight but im glad they did it and i loved watching it
I was checking HBOmax every 10 minutes chomping at the bit to watch this and by the end of the movie I was pretty disappointed =(
1) The fight scenes were mostly underwhelming (Shang-Chi had better) and the movie lacked any of the amazing innovation of its predecessors.
2) It really felt like it didn't move the story forward much at all. It just retread old ground like a sight seeing tour but not in an interesting way.
3) The love story was always the least interesting part of the other films (imo) and it was even less interesting here.
4) While the performance of the Morpheus and Smith actors was good the roles really seemed off-axis with replacements.
5) That ultimate thing with Trinity was just nonsensical. There was literally no explanation for it.
6) honestly, if the whole movie was just Keanu/Anderson wrestling with his own sanity it would have been more fun.
Point 6 yes please!!!! If the whole movie was Neo's mind coming to grips with what happened while the machines ressurected him and in the end of the movie he woke up, I would've done a standing ovation.... at home... which would serve no purpose.... but I still would've done it.
@@thegrimsqueaker-w2l I would've done one, at home, too.
Yep 6 is the right thing. They could have just use that meta-narrative, and in the last 15 minutes, go ham and revert to matrix. We could have got a nice sequel and future plot for another sequel.
I didn't even finish it. An hour and a half into the movie, in the middle of a lackluster and pointless action shootout scene I checked the time and saw an hour left and nothing resembling a point or plot to the movie up to that point.
I personally hated it. As you put it the tone was terrible, but my main issue was the way they handled trinity and the new characters. As you so excellently put it, they tried to do so much with the character in such little time it barely left you time to register. On the other hand Bugs was so underutilized it almost made me question her role in the movie. I want to see fresh faces brought to the matrix, i loved the new morpheus, but bugs felt as if she could have been switched with any other female character in the movie without any effect on the overall plot
Shes the one who found neo... what you mean?
@@drEAm1ine I didn’t have a problem with him
@@JP-dh6ep Yes, but she could have been replaced by anyone in that scene with almost no narrative implications
@@adamloutsenhizer1959 i kind of dont understand your point. she was the one who saw the man (who at the time thought it could possibly be neo) trying to jump of the building and saw the man float. She IS the reason why neo is found. If it wasnt for her and her rebellious ways, neo would probably be stuck in the matrix.
@@JP-dh6ep She was amazing in the first scene, but then so underutilized it gave her no character development. There was no reason given as to why she saw that and no one else did. She could have been replaced by any other “enlightened” character
The problem with the Waschowskis is that they're amazing at high ideas, but mediocre with execution. The original Matrix worked because it had a singular idea: What is the Matrix. The entire movie then served to distill that one idea into a coherent story.
Reloaded & Revolutions somehow seemed to equate bigger / louder / convoluted with better. They managed to dial it back in a little with Resurrection, but I didn't feel like they were able to seamlessly thread the meta-commentary with the nostalgia and the sequel. In fact, it all felt rather ham-fisted. I tangibly groaned at the Frenchman's commentary. It literally felt like a nagging.
They need an editor. Like George Lucas they require someone to proof read their stuff before it goes to film.
This was just Lana, Lily wasn't involved.
I literally forgot the frenchman was in the movie. they did that character so dirty. There's no point in bringing up old characters and plot devices just to ignore them all in the name of "saving Trinity".
doing a little research, you'll find that the original Matrix's high concepts were *barely* the Wachowskis' own. The beauty of the first Matrix, besides the groundbreaking special effects & action, WAS the execution of the concepts adapted into the screenplay.
@@briansolo I know the idea of life as a simulation has long been a philosophical debate, but if not even the original Matrix was fully their own brainchild, then I wonder what the sisters are good for (based on their body of controversial work). Lana tries to preach about the matrix of "film-making" here and it feels like the lecture of a C-list weekend workshop 🤦🏻♀️
i wanted to walk out as soon as i seen Morpheus in that suit
I watched the trilogy so many times I stopped counting at 27. This one is a total technical disaster.
I just noticed (and I don’t know if someone else has commented on this already) that Dan has framed his movie pass card which I find hilarious and extremely on brand
It was a gift, so he didn't frame it himself... I think it is briefly brought up in a livestream. Still funny nonetheless. (I think it's been there at least a couple weeks too so probably has been brought up)
This whole movie was. "You remember this, you remember that?" It was horrible.
I didn't notice that. That's a nice touch!
😂😂😂 good eye!
Oh that makes a lot of sense and thanks for catching that! I quite honestly thought it was a credit card and I thought well that’s odd that can’t be right?? So yeah the movie pass thing makes a lot more sense. Thanks 👍🏼
The lack of hand to hand combat by Neo and nerfing Neo's powers really bothered me.
lmfao bro its been 60 yrs
@@TJLowAsab As mentioned in the review, he's still doing John Wick movies. Action sequences aren't beyond his ability to perform.
The problem in the movie is that they left him enough power to not ever experience danger, but not enough power (of any sort) to do anything cool. The entire final action scene is a bunch of stuff happening while Neo shrugs it off through the power of aggressively flinching and nope-ing the danger away. Will the bullets hit him? Not if he holds his hands up in front of his face and blocks them with a mental shield! Will the falling bodies hit him? Quick, raise your hands again and grimace harder before you're forced to experience consequences!
There is no story explanation that can make boring, uncompelling action okay.
They definitely Luke Skywalkered Neo
@@ferallemur 💯 and it's mostly Keanu himself doing the action scenes in John Wick, not his stunt double. He absolutely could have done it. Age in the real world doesn't matter for a Matrix avatar. It's only code as they say in the original.
I'm pretty sure nerfing Neo's powers had to do with the fact that the Machines were actively suppressing his powers for 60 years and quite literally mind-fucking him the entire time.
It's like some of y'all didn't even pay attention to the reasons given for 99% of the plot.
To further prove my point, he is flying at the end of the movie alongside Trinity, if they decide to make another sequel, I'm pretty sure this means that he will be back at being the powerhouse he used to be now that the machines are not able to suppress him.
Missed opportunity is the perfect description for this one. Felt like it could have been a masterpiece but got so caught up in all the different things it wanted to be that it ended up being a mess. I simultaneously loved and hated the movie and left the theater feeling so weird
What I got from the movie is that they redefined "The One" which was both Neo and Trinity all along. Instead of trying to wow us with new visuals they kind of set it up to possibly become a TV series that dives deeper into what happened over the past 60 years.
No, It wasn't Neo and Trinity all along. This is a new matrix, it's not just another iteration of the old one. Neo was the anomaly in the matrix created by the architect, but the analyst created a matrix where both Neo and Trinity are anomalies because both of them together generate way more energy than usual. The analyst explained that in his first versions he put them together but that overloaded the system so he had to put them close enough but not together in the matrix to get optimal power.
No, you all don't get it. It reverses the Adam and Eve story basically bringing Adam and Eve together again from their fall(out) with the snake, which is The Analyst or Satan. That, or is it about transvestism
Nice way to have a positive outlook on it but its garbage and you know it
Actually, Lana Wachowski is a genius! So devious. She made a movie so bad, that people will now see The matrix 2 & 3 as great films! While simultaneously destroying the IP before Warner Bros could milk it
In terms of Matrix sequels this one is at the bottom for me. I loved the 2nd and while the 3rd is a mess it is still fun. This one was just strange and seemed like it was trying to be smarter than it actually was. I agree with Dan about the action being pretty disappointing. There was not one single memorable action set-piece compared to countless in the original trilogy. Some cool moments and new characters in this one but overall it felt sort of empty
The Matrix sequels are terrible.
@@jonathancurran5366 3rd one is definitely a mess but I still enjoy a fair bit of it. The 2nd one though I really do think it’s a brilliant action movie. Has 45 minutes of some of the best action scenes ever running through the fight in Merovingian’s Chateau to the Highway chase. Then you have other ones throughout it like Neo’s quick fight with the agents at the start, Neo and Seraph too and then Neo vs all the Agent Smiths. Great stuff in there
@@nathanpreshur1857 it's honestly a messy failure that goes completely off the rails. Pretentious nonsense.
@@jonathancurran5366 Ah well each to their own, it is a very divisive movie
@@nathanpreshur1857 true I think the problem is reloaded is so inferior to the original. Like TFM it is the epitome of a let down and over hype.
This movie makes resolutions look like a masterpiece. I am shocked at how bad this is.
Couldn't have said it better myself. It was shockingly bad. Absolute crap.
I was so offended how bad it was.
It's revolutions but we totally get u 👍
@@jorgegaytan3012 Haha oh yeah! That's right. Typo*
@@robertcrisp6297 Happy holidays Robert, sadly I'm not watching resurrections. Ever
Going from groundbreaking fight scenes in movie history (at least in usa) to Bourne shake camera work, by far the worst fight scene in recent history, is a betrayal bigger than Cypher. I understand you can’t re-invent the wheel in terms of SFX, since the original Matrix we had 20 years of Nolan, Snyder, Marvel e etc. But to settle for mediocre, man that’s hurts.
For me personally, I'm not going to watch matrix for the action scenes
@@chris2kgreat You shouldn’t, there isn’t. But if you’re gonna watch for the characters or for the plot, oh boy…
Y’all are crybabies
This literally felt like a fan film
If you only focus on the visuals in the movie I think you miss the true genius of the films ability to just tell a great story.
This movie was full of exposition and the action was lackluster. I gave The Matrix Resurrections a 4/10. I gave the original trilogy 10, 8, and 7 respectively.
Not bad scores man. The second and third were not great BUT, seen within the architecture of the trilogy, they just about work. This one was just crammed together nonsense.
Same, but this one a 3 and the first one a 9.
i agree with your ratings.
resurrections looks lazy and the gender swap at the end jarred me out of the movie.
10, 3, 0
I didn't watch this one
@@SceneComparisons Wow! 3 & 0. I agree that they could have stopped at 1, but the car chase scene in 2 deserves better than a 3? Lol
The meta commentary was so overwhelming, I was waiting for Lana Wachowski to be in the mirror when Neo see’s how the rest of the world saw him in the new Matrix.
Lol spot-on
Damn so true... and freaking sad
Facts 😆😆😆😆
I seen an article that said the executives at Warner Bros begged the wachowski sisters for years to do a matrix 4 even tho they felt the story was over after the trilogy. One of the two eventually caved and u can really see in the writing at the beginning 30 mins of the movie… that she didn’t really wanna make this movie. The meta commentary about studios forcing sequels was cringe.
All in all …it was okay, I agree that I like matrix 1 & 2 more than resurrection and matrix 3 the least
Lana has said it was her idea to make the movie in response to both of her parents dying as an exercise in grieving, they didn't just drive a truck with 800 billion dollars up to her house and convince her to do it.
They're still brothers playing dress up ffs
Keanu Reeves re-surge in popularity since JW is the main reason this got made.
Agree ...
If the story about WB was true and Lana really did cave in, how can she properly call herself an artist after this butchery of a piece?
This was the ONLY movie I ever bailed on. I left with 45 minutes to go... and the Matrix is my all time favorite movie. Dig the review!
Hey we stopped at the same point! I stopped with an hour left and then I figured I’d force myself to watch the rest. I could only make 15 more minutes before giving up. This movie was straight garbage
I got bored from the first 30 minutes
@@Ghost-jy9hk haha, I kept waiting for at least a decently choreographed and shot action sequence to scrape some redemption off the walls of this mess. We always have the first Matrix! The subway scene with Smith still gives me chills!
Imagine if they had let Neo overcome the new slowed time ability of the Analyst so that he and maybe even trinity as well could fight him at that level, rather than just having it canceled out by Smith with no real explanation. We could've had Matrix fights with time manipulation, or even just frozen time fights something a kin to when Flash fought Superman in the Justice League movie.
Imagine them fighting within a slowed down time where they punch through walls or buildings etc, and the debree is sent up flying all around them, but time is too slow for the debree to clear so they are just fighting through all this floating glass or jumping off of falling chunks of buildings etc.
I mean they could've done so much more with this!
They F'ed it up!
I already knew this movie sucked before watching this review but used this as a test of your movie reviewing skills.
You PASSED! Thank you fine sir!
The Animatrix shows that there’s a ton of interesting stories that can be told within this universe. WB need to take this IP well away from the Wachowski’s if they ever want to use it again, if they haven’t already buried it for good. The Unreal Engine tech demo showed that fans still have a ton of goodwill for the franchise.
The Animatrix is a prequel to the Matrix.
@@Young_Dab some of the stories are, some of them aren’t. I’m not sure what your point is?
Just watched it through this morning, the second renaissance is always chilling but man, the animatrix is leagues better than resurrections. My own opinion but I’m sure I’m not alone
@@peeko_luxx2873 the second renaissance is amazing, I’d love to see a big budget live action version of that.
Directed by somebody capable, not the Wachowskis.
Animatrix was a very mixed bag. This movie does in fact follow up on one of the threads from one of the animated shorts in that collection.
i was really into the movie for the first like 30 minutes. but then they just kept talking and talking and talking and the whole trash with zion. i think its obvious to everybody that the genius of the first matrix was 100% a fluke
I enjoyed it. I liked the sequels too though… I like the matrix. The only thing I missed was that we didn’t have anything really groundbreaking and it annoyed me that neo just force pushed everything.
I liked the 2nd and 3rd as well. This? Not so much.
My main takeaway was: "that was weird." It's more bad than good, and that sucks. Was looking forward to it.
"Face-Zucker-suck" - Merovingian, Matrix 4
Yes. This was one of the most disappointing lines in the movie. The cringe level is on new hights in this moment.
O M G.
I really liked the "observations" of the Frenchman. I don't do Facebook and never will.
The first half of this film is next level bad, meta to the point where its a film essay parody and not a film and Morpheus just Deadpooling it until the halfway point where it finally picks up the story from part 3. Action also is weak and poorly shot and edited. Once the story focuses on rescuing Trinity, it picks up and is fairly engaging...until the film just kinda stops and ends. Apparently there wont be a part 5 so what an underwhelming entry
Funny enough I preferred the first half. Movie went rapidly downhill was Neo got free
@@sheriffdraws8789 Fair enough, I just hate films like ready player 1 and deadpool were story and character is replaced with meta and easter eggs
Agree. The meta flashbacks and non stop commentary on the first films is so bad. The second half it becomes watchable. The action scenes were so underwhelming from the previous films.
@@Randomuser2329 Would be boring if we all had the same reactions!
@@reyalexandro Yuen Wo Ping is sorely missed here. People say he was just choreographer but he actually had a say where the camera should be, where and how the camera moves and where the edits should be in the fight scene. This is just American style shoot the whole thing in wide, insert shaky close ups and then ask the editor for a miracle....
“Light on the action”….is an understatement
Ikr! I always felt one of the reasons why they gave Neo the ability to literally stop bullets was to justify more hand to hand combat in the movie series. This movie seems to have completely lost that. They just keep trying to should him or blow him up 🤦♂️
@@brandonreed09 the first fight with fake trinity triggered the hell out of me….none of these fights were even choreographed correctly they were all over the place and randomly and goofy as fuck. What movie did other people see? Are just going to ignore films like the Raid, shit even something like shang chi or idk…THE FIRST MATRIX FILM.
One of the biggest complaint that I've mention on the comment section is that have not yet heard anybody in a single video talk about yet is that not a single main character not even the side character has died throughout this movie, now that's what you call serious plot armor.
IM PISSED THEY DIDN'T HAVE THE REAL MORPHEUS!!!!!
Tbh, after Speed Racer, The Watchowsky's movies feel more like post-Signs Shyamalan movies. I just watch them to be amused at how baffling they are.
Cloud Atlas (2012) is their unequivocal magnum opus. It's one of a short list for our generation's "2001 A Space Odyssey," in that it was misunderstood in its own time but in the subsequent years of people contemplating the many things it was saying, finally allowed for the masses to grow and understand its grandeur.
@@catalinaardila8391 Haha
@@catalinaardila8391 no. it was super bad. go watch real good movies and acquire better taste
@@catalinaardila8391 I don’t remember anything good about Cloud Atlas besides the terrible convoluted plot and Tom Hanks
@@sakuragi1062 I understand this type of response. I mean what Cloud A. was attempting was something new and we as consumers are generally not kind to the "new." I also get that nobody wants homework after watching a flick and we're not accustomed to movies with 6 timelines! and just as many protagonists! But time will justifiably serve this movie well. Don't believe me? Here's what Tom Hanks and Lana Wachowski had to say about it years later:
Tom Hanks: In 2013, he stated "I've seen it three times now and discovered, I swear to God, different, profound things with each viewing." In a 2017 interview, he called it "a movie that altered my entire consciousness", stating "it's the only movie I've been in that I've seen more than twice."
Lana W. in a 2015 interview with the Toronto Sun: “When we think of the movie we imagine we’ll be remembered for, I think it’s going to be Cloud Atlas because it touches people in a way most movies don’t,” Lana says. “And that kind of impact endures whereas the coolness factor of Matrix will eventually wear off.”
20 minutes of Keanu throwing his hands up at bullets was exhausting.
If the machines were going to put Neo and Trinity back into the pods, why did they fix their bodies? Making them alive enough to plug in would make more sense. Fixing Neo’s eyes made 0 sense to me.
If they used only their DNA to rebuild them, then there's no reason for any injury to be there, because DNA doesn't store that kind of information. If they used their own data (Matrix data, like what they did with the strawberries at Io), then the latest info would be blind-by-burn Neo and impaled-by-parts-of-the-ship Trinity?
Maybe I have bad tastes or maybe it was the nostalgia goggles but I loved it. So for me it was a great experience.
It sucked so bad. Not even Keanu Reeves could save it.
You pretty much nailed my thoughts on this film. Now, I'm one that actually enjoys Reloaded and Revolution. When I first saw them, my mind found an explanation for what I was seeing and I really enjoyed the action. This movie, though, I still found an explanation but I found the action to really lack that "Matrix-y" feel. I did enjoy seeing a lot of the actors from Sense8 get main roles.
What if I told you that, I enjoyed all the movies ?....
@@colonelccccc The lack of Mr. Anderson... from Smith is a huge cringe. The movie wasn't bad but in my opinion I feel likes the Worst Matrix out the series. They went everywhere with this one. Honestly it doesn't even seem Canon or connected to the main story. More like this was it's own unique Movie with the Title "Matrix". I enjoyed the Movie too, plenty of 4th wall and Easter eggs in the Movie that caught my attention. Other that, this movie lacked Action, waaaay too much talking. Felt like Matrix by Edger Allen Poe, which isn't that bad just saying it felt like I was watching Syfi play at Broadway. Good movie, weird direction.
Not the only one!!!!
I loved reloaded. Revolutions was ok. The beginning felt like a different film. If Hugo Weaving came back as smith and had his moment vs the analyst. I’m sorry but when Jonathan Groff slapped the gun out of the analysts hand that was the gayest slap I’ve ever seen lol. I love Groff but this was dumb. I laughed out loud when they were straining to reach each other. Although I did feel good when their older selves see each other for the first time in the real world. But fight scenes felt lazy and slow.
Reloaded is my favorite.
After watching this movie twice now, I'm still left with the exact same question I had when I first heard it was being made: why do we need this movie? what's the point?
I still don't know.
I agree with this and other reviews. It was fun while watching it but it was also ultimately disappointing.
May be start for a series
@@blackwhite1551 a series of utter disappointment
I feel physically assaulted by Lana Wachowski with all her meta commentary.
Felt like I was punched in the face with all her issues it was that blunt. No subtlety whatsoever, making a bunch of characters talk like they’ve never had real conversations before.
It’s a cobbled together mess of movie, that felt like four separate jigsaws smashed together. Also, Jessica Henwick carries so much of this film.
agreed, she was perhaps the best part of the movie. hope we see more of her soon
Jessica Henwick learned how to carry a story in Iron Fist
yeah i dont get why all of neos powers were like a kamahamah or however its spelled
I've watched a few reviews, the most viewed ones, this is the best and closest to what I was thinking about the movie. Good job bro
Matrix 4: We F up the last ending, and so this is a better one.
Anyways, some movies are not meant to exist, just like Prometheus, Aliens: Ressurection, and Covenant.
I share your thoughts pretty heavily. It was very similar for me to the Breaking Bad sequel movie, it just kinda felt like Lana Wachowski wasn’t happy with the ending of Revolutions and wanted the franchise to have a different ending lmao
IMO, Bugs should have been the main character and Neo/Trinity’s story should have served as the inciting incident for her story. It kinda felt like the third act forgot about all of our newcomer characters.
Yeah the last 3rd of is just a let down.....Just seemed rushed and weird.
It was a clip-show - like a budget episode of Star trek. The writers tried to be 'meta' and reproduce the novelty of the first film. They failed.
I don't understand what happened to Bullet Time. It looks different from The Matrix films. I was delighted to see Keanu Reeves playing as Neo, Carrie Anne Moss as Trinity and Jada Pinkett Smith as Niobe. But for Morphius and Agent Smith were replaced by different actors such as Jonathan Groff and Yahya Adul-Mateen second. I haven't seen the movie yet but I will when it comes out.
There is a lot of creativity in the film, but a lack of creative vision.
When we got back to IO I was thinking this felt like a saturday morning cartoon.
Because I see a lot of comments about how the movie is missing the green tint in the matrix, just remember at the end of the 3rd the machines and humans found peace and reset the matrix in a new colorful reset world. That’s why it’s so vibrant in this one
Can you also explain why it sucked?
@@BigGfromgrouphome no I can’t I was thoroughly disappointed, which sucks because I love the first 3 so much
@@NorthCdogg22 have you watched Dark City?
@@BigGfromgrouphome no I’ve heard of it tho, is it good?
No. I heard it was great, watched it and it was absolutely terrible. Never watching it again.
1. I hated that the new Smith called Neo Mr. Anderson only twice and the rest of the movie Tom.
2. Laurence Fishburne should have been in this movie as Morpheus.
3. When you mix action with extremely predictable, that makes it boring.
4. Where is the golden code?
5. Making anyone an agent was a mistake... I like it when the matrix took a human battery and morph it into an agent dressed in a black suit and dark sunglasses.
6. Where is the back story for Merovingian, and why did he just leave as if he became bored with the whole situation.
7. Not having the green hue that we like and recognized when in the Matrix was another big mistake.
8. Another big mistake is making Trinity the same as Neo, ergo "The One" which now makes it *The Two* 😡
9. Having the new version of agent Smith become the hero was just ridiculous!
Yeah... Idk why. But part of me felt like there was many things wrong with this movie. Idk why. I couldn't find... Now we have two Ones? So so confusing
@@TheSeeWhatiSee Remember what Smith said... He could be anyone. Smith and Neo are very much the same. It's easy. "The One" (not Neo) source code imprinted on Trinity, much like The One's source code imprinted on Smith in the original. Remember the time Neo resurrected Trinity? ;) part of The One's code imprinted then.
I knew this movie wouldn't do good 😒
@@c.james1
All true but...
The Matrix was rebooted by the architect, ergo the return of the green hue.
@@zioncommand I feel like doing that is more of allegory for Lana's transition from a man to woman. The power of The One was originally in a man in the original films, but is now in a woman.
Cinematography felt like a TV show. Action scenes were clomped together, it was a mess. So much potencial
Same! I thought I was the only one realizing that. The cinematography and chorography very TV show quality. The scripts also very cringy.
Will we get another matrix? I will keep paying no matter how bad
The meta stuff could have been interesting if it actually went anywhere and the continuation from 3 makes sense within the lore.
Really my biggest problem with the movie is that it needed to have its exposition cut down by like an hour. It was too long and explained way to much in ways that weren't very fun.
I loved it.
Such a badass story.
I really liked how it wasnt a neo vs smith movie all over again.
I liked the way neo was in a way reincarnated and made a game of his memories and its his game that woke him up and the charactors in the game entered the matrix to help remind him who he is. Such a wild concept.
Also like the arc with neo and trinity becoming the oracle and architect.
Not as good as 1. But way better than 2 and 3
Yes, thank you. I feel the same way.
Finally some one who gets the movie
@@Thegodnaameen it seems a lot of reviewers dont.
@@Brythemagicguy1 I will be completely honest (cuz I'm just an honest kinda guy) I was genuinely confused at what was going on with this movie. But I'm careful not to go around saying this is because the movie sucks or is convoluted. I recognize it's entirely possible it's a great movie and I'm just too stupid to keep up. haha
I was so confused!!!
Agreed
I walked away, half way during the cinema, I don't remember the last time doing that !
@@Elwaves2925 well R3 is not really a movie to walk out of so your loss.
Me too. I got excited when they walked out from the mirror. I was expecting finally some action but then started talking and explaining sh*t. I was done.
The self awareness was overwhelming and the film stupid. It's also very wordy. Too many wacky woke words. Too much explaining and explaining. I walked out from it.
This movie was Exposition: The Movie and is frankly incomprehensible if you haven’t seen the first 3. There were great concepts with terrible execution where it is the worst sequel. The action wasn’t impressive. What a huge disappointment.
It wasn't a huge disappointment for me, because I didn't watch the film for its entertainment per se, I watched it for its message, and it did try to explain some things that were very important, and the value of that information is greater than the entertainment of the fight scenes.
The film spent some time with characters like Jude or the employees brainstorming over the next Matrix IV video game to discuss what the Matrix is all about, many of the sayings in which we, the audience, suggest or talk about when trying to interpret the film.
In other words, it's telling the audience that most of the interpretations that we are giving toward the Matrix film are not truly what the film is about.
It's also communicating to us that we're focusing on the wrong things, such as when one of the employees asks the question "when you think of the matrix, what do you think about?", and someone says *"bullet-time"* as one employee does the famous Neo Dodge move and another employee pulls out of toy pistol jokingly, implying that we're distracted by the entertainment aspect or the fight scenes which is distracting from the truth. In other words, the film is directly responding to your point.
It's saying that people are distracted from the core message because of the type of reasoning about Matrix we do that doesn't lead to its core message or to what is ultimately true.
The film is communicating that the only thing which ultimately matters is the core message, and anything other than the core message is a distraction.
I agree with you though, the fight scenes were not that great, there was not a lot of action, most of it was dialogue, and comparing how the punches and kicks were with the Matrix Reloaded and revolution fight scenes are much different. There was more "form" and elegance in the fight scenes of Matrix 1 through 3 and not as much in 4.
However, there's still something extremely important about the core message that Towers (big time) over the fight scenes, and this message made the film *more* than worth watching.
@@Bi0Dr01d I don’t need a lot of action in any movie and a good message doesn’t make the movie itself good. That doesn’t make any movie worth watching.
@@DanV900 I respect your view, but the question is, What is more important? How much the entertainment matches our preferences? Or what is true?
@@Bi0Dr01d What is more important is whether the movie is actually good. A bad movie can have a good message where plenty do, but that doesn’t make it a worthwhile watch. The message frankly means nothing if it was executed poorly. A much better movie this year is Pig which is all about showing empathy and Nicolas Cage as the main character plays Rob. The trailer makes it seem like it’s another John Wick with getting his pig back, but nope, it certainly is not. Rob gives up his riches to live out in the woods which you find out later and doesn’t fight someone to figure out what happened to the pig. I didn’t watch 12 Years a Slave to be entertained even though that’s also a great movie. A movie by the way that is also much better this year than The Matrix Resurrections is Nine Days which is all about existential questions with pragmatism versus optimism. It deals with suicide as well. There is no right answer where you have your preference with how you view life with the questions asked, but that is worth watching a lot more than The Matrix Resurrections. Winston Duke should be nominated for an Oscar as the lead and his character also shows empathy.
@@DanV900 I understand your passionate about your views, but we're speaking on two different planes. I don't expect you to understand what I'm saying because I haven't explained myself because I have to see where the heart of the person is that I'm speaking with, because every person is already subconsciously choosing the red or blue 🔴🔵.
Basically this movie is a promotion of the game
It just sucks that it's not making money. All criticisms aside, Matrix fans should support the movie.
A generous nostalgia driven 5.75/10. I’m glad I didn’t pay the high movie theater price to see it. 🤦🏾♂️
I think the reasoning for the lazy feeling hands out force power type thing is exactly what you insinuated at the beginning of the faults of the sequels. Lana is trying to be too hyper cerebral and outthink the expectation. Perhaps here taking it too literally as well. Yes an omnipotent being would likely not have to do much physical combat or bullet dodging. But I think it would be easily more impressive and less degrading for Neo to just will bullets to stop without any motion at all. But of course we see later that this is also used to imply his sort of faltering amounts of power in order to lift the female ONE to a more supreme and luminous pedestal.
I mean they just make him so weak at the end, and I begged in my mind that they wouldn’t have Neo and Trinity both flying off separately after pushing the fact that Neo cannot fly even when absolutely necessary and with the company of Trinity numerous times directly before. Yet there they both go in to the sunset. I guess Neo found his Mojo just a couple scenes too late to make it into this end fight sequence. DARN
I loved #1, liked 2, hated 3. This is, I dunno, a shade less than like, but I didn't hate the movie.
What I did hate was leaving out Huge Weaving and Laurence Fishburne. Even the music sorely missed Don Davis + Juno Reactor.
Glad I didn't spend theater money on it at least, just watched it on my comfy couch.
I thought Morpheus was about to say Candyman at one point in front of a mirror with Neo.
His character was very uneven, and I had no idea of the rules for power levels, or anything really.
There are jarring cuts, some in the middle of action scenes, that just didn’t make sense at all, and there’s never anything to bring us back or realize why they stop following the set piece.
Example: Caracter T is holding character N on the rooftop with the missiles…after they had just had a long chase to find an exit, then it just cuts and they’re back to safety. It was odd to say the least.
The third was awesome. This was trash
They need to make another one… and quick. This one was such a disappointment. Nee director needed too. Fight scenes and script was awful.
Think how great these films may have been, sequels or this one with different directors. Nolan, Fincher, or even Dennis Villenue..
Excellent review. Watched on hbo max. Would never have seen this if I had to pay for it. This is a story that’s out of gas. They repeated the things that didn’t work in 2 and 3. To be honest, it felt like a diatribe from someone who is in a state of confusion
Lana made a misguided vanity project. She should stop milking it
Hmm. Transgenders are confused
They Luke Skywalkered Neo
2 and 3 was good asf
@@fakeweightsfredokwomo3016 no they didn't, neo was treated with respect. I liked his arc in the movie.
Jessica Henwick was the lone brightspot for me in the most anticipated movie for me in years that ended up leaving me confused and disappointed.
She is a good actress no doubt about that. But think about it, she basically is Morpheus one to one! Only without motivation! Morpheus did all that cause he believed in "the one" to free humanity... Bug did free neo for what exactly? Cause he's a cool dude and a legend? Cause nobody knew he was alive? Her character arch was so dull! She is Morpheus in bad without any reason for her actions...
I agree with you to some extent, but that has more to do with the writing than it does her acting performance. I think that the two "leads" seemed disinterested and I'm not sure if that was the writing or what, but as a huge Keanu fan I was a little bit let down by him. I also think that my expectations were way to high for this movie though so I might have been let down no matter what lol
@@SadAngelCrying they freed Neo because he was a prisoner. Just like why they freed all the other people besides Neo in the original trilogy. The One isn't the only one that deserved to be free.
The Wachowski’s will forever be one-hit-wonder filmmakers and I’m ok with that. After watching all 5 films in The Matrix franchise this past week it suddenly struck me how lackluster all 3 sequels are. Anamatrix and the original film is all you need.
v for vendetta was pretty good.
@@blackbeltjones2903 good shout! Completely forget they made that.
They mentioned that he made the game the matrix but they’re showing clips of a film the entire time so I’m confused
The only Matrix I need is the first one and the Animatrix. Rest can cease to exist
You condensed heavily the mix of emotions I felt as I finished this film. The commentary on momentum and missed opportunities hit hard. There were so many threads like a mixture of smith/morpheus - so many plot threads you could pull, so much drama you could write. They had commentary on not needing phonebooths anymore but never expanding on it. They sort of hinted or showcased an entire machine civil war post neo's victory but mum about it beyond purge and fallout. There was so many ideas that leapt at me from the film that I thought could've sold a better plot than what I was given.
I agree with the whole mixed bag of convoluted meta -- callbacks and flits from the first trilogy while forcing you to see clips of the old films while actors are trying to act their scenes or even comment on the stuff they're re-shooting/framing. Wild. Thanks for echoing a lot of my feelings/thoughts. Cheers.
There were some pacing issues with the film. The reason they didn't need phone booths is because they move in and out of the Matrix through mirrors or windows.
Niobe jailed Neo because she needed to know why the machines revived him and Trinity. The Analyst states that the more he manipulates and torments Neo & Trinity, the more energy they produce. That he's been hitting productivity records "since he took over." This may imply that the scarcity for electricity that drove the machines to civil war may have subsided because of this, restoring peace.
So weird that it feels like restart of the franchise yet Lana claims it’s meant to stand alone. Almost like HBO Watchmen in that way.
Kind of reminds me of the Star Wars sequel trilogy. “Good question, for another time.”
@@jonathanclemens3755 I gotcha. I kind of processed that out but it harkened back to the pacing issues you mentioned.
@@jonathanclemens3755 Yeah. That whole Niobe, Zion, Io dialogue sequence could have been a great movie/limited series of its own...hell, even an actual 'Matrix' video game premise!
A lot of the negative reviews already capture my reactions to the film - fight scenes that are kinda similar to the original trilogy, but lacking in grace and beauty, blizzards of bullets that somehow hit nobody, choppy pace and tons of boring-ass infodumps - but what I am puzzled about is what the heck is going on with the narrative. A topic more suited to a post-watch debate between friends than a review, but the movie seems trapped in its own matrix. The set of ideas has barely budged from the original trilogy. Ok Zion is now Io, and there are some cute new machines modeled on deep-sea creatures, but we are back to toggling between a corporate virtual world and the gloomy, post-nuclear(?) "real" world, and it's as if nothing in the trilogy had ever occurred. What exactly is going on in the machine ecosystem? Why do the machines do any of the stuff they do? Do they also harbor the desires and fears that they keep chiding the humans for? If they do not have desires, why go on? Even the desire for survival is a desire.
Yea at one point when morphoues was in the real world , I thought they were going to dove I. What reality is and that the matrix and real world is no different since we can go into there world and the AI/machines can be in our world …. But it didn’t …. I thought it was going to question was reality is and not a love story .
You said everything I felt in this movie. My husband and I were laughing at the first part of the movie. I said, “it’s self-aware now.” Then I kept expecting some new, awesome, technological advance, and it was just the same old thing as 20 years ago. I’m with you. I thought Keanu should have been kicking way more butt. The action in the first movie was so much better than this. At the end, I thought, “and that’s how this ends?” Smith was a waste and him calling Neo “Tom” was lame. His name is Mr. Anderson to you!
I kind of felt like Neo was ready in the latter half of the movie to have a warm milk and a nap. Remember when he was young and had his first thrilling fight with Smith? I member!
I get recasting Agent Smith for practical, real world reasons but at least have the new guy say Smith's classic line more than twice.
How'd you feel about Tiffany?... I mean Trinity...
I really like that they didn't even try to make New Smith do a shitty attempt at Hugo Weaving's Smith, you THINK you want that but I really don't think you do. Hugo's Smith is iconic, nothing can compare.
Yeah Neo Wick wasn't working in the 2nd Act lol
Such a great review Dan, new subscriber 👍 Happy holidays
Floating Trinity at the end for NO apparent reason at all ...LOL. Who wrote this bs?? It was horrible.
The 2nd Matrix was pure gold!
they had to get the feminist agenda there, so now Trinity has "The One" powers too cause you know... reasons.