The Matrix Resurrections - How to Fail at Sequel | Anatomy Of A Failure
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The Matrix Resurrections starring John Wick Keanu Reeves continues Neo's story from The Matrix Reloaded and Revolutions, and it flopped pretty badly, apparently losing around a 100 million dollars. Maybe there are many reasons for why Resurrections flopped, but one of the biggest weaknesses about it is that it's a terrible sequel. And the best way to understand and learn from that is to contrast its sequel aspects to positive ones we've discussed before. Here's why The Matrix 4 is a bad sequel and how it suffers as a result.
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The Matrix Resurrections (2021)
Co-written and directed by Lana Wachowski, this sci-fi thriller series sequel revisits Neo (Keanu Reeves), who seems to be feeling disconnected from his reality as he discusses his personal issues with a therapist-like Analyst (Neil Patrick Harris). As he’s also apparently taking some blue pills, old characters from his past start reappearing, offering him a red pill and some missing truths about his actual reality. Carrie-Anne Moss co-stars as Trinity, with Yahya Abdul-Mateen II as Morpheus and Jada Pinkett Smith as Niobe.
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The 1981 mythological fantasy adventure Clash of the Titans is resurrected in this remake from Incredible Hulk director Louis Leterrier. Discovered at sea as an infant by a weary fisherman, demigod Perseus (Sam Worthington) grows up with no real knowledge of his celestial origins until his watchful guardian, Io (Gemma Arterton), informs him that he is the offspring of Zeus (Liam Neeson). When Zeus' brother Hades (Ralph Fiennes) casually wipes out Perseus' family, the grieving son vows to show the Matrix Resurrections agent smith matrix resurrections watch full movie online free 4k clip hd everything wrong with matrix resurrections honest trailer bad movie good movie matrix resurrections review ending explained matrix resurrections fight scene motorcycle blocking bullets neo vs smith matrix resurrections official trailer reactions rant bad movie the matrix resurrections should never have been made gods just what kind of damage humankind will there be a matrix sequel keanu reeves neo matrix resurrections flop can inflict on its creators. Before long, Perseus and a small group of soldiers are venturing out into the desert in order to find a way to stop the Kraken, a terrifying force of nature that an indignant Hades has vowed to unleash upon man should they fail to offer up beloved princess Andromeda (Alexa Davalos) as a sacrifice. Along the way, the soldiers encounter a trio of frightening witches with second sight, contend with Hades' devoted servant Calibos (Jason Flemyng), battle giant scorpions, and come face to face with Medusa (Natalia Vodianova), the dreaded gorgon whose gaze has the power to turn men into stone 
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We’d have to be living in the matrix if Someone really thinks the new matrix is better than the legendary Spider-Man 3
@@abdulazizmerdad4093 only a couple more weeks and something might happen...
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I'm glad you reviewed this movie
Havent seen ur review. But i agree with this.
"Now, the one man who made a difference. 5 times before..... Is about to make a difference.... AGAIN! Only this time....... It's different."
"Who left the fridge open?"
And no one saw it coming
“I know who I am! I’m the dude who used to be a dude who became the dude!”
@@mahmud1019 "Here we go again..... Again!"
😂😂😂
Most disappointing thing about this movie was the fight choreography. How did neo go from Kung Fu to pushing air!?
what choreography? this is just a bunch of guys who shake their hands in front of a camera
Old age.
@@bunnystick Keanu is still filming for John Wick 4, it has nothing to do with age but with Keanu not giving a shit to learn action moves because he’s filming for a better movie franchise (a movie about a guy avenging his puppy’s murder 😂)
@@bunnystick Look at the behind the scenes training he does for John wick series.....His age is no where near obstructing his martial arts training...
@@Mr_Bones. The thing that confuses me is that they had Chad Stahelski in the movie so he either didn't direct the fight scenes or he actually made bad fighting choreography
I’m convinced this 4th film was a deliberate attempt to sour anybody else asking for more Matrix films moving forward. There were a lot of little fourth wall breaking bits poking fun or making note of film remakes/reboots too. I think the Wachowski’s got sick of ppl asking for a 4th film when the trilogy didn’t need it
Exactly. I was surprised they didn't get called out more
If this is true now I want ANOTHER movie just to spite.
We didn’t even need a trilogy. The first Matrix is a masterpiece but everything after it sucked *ss.
Its clearly triggered the red pill massive.
Definitely
The crazy thing is that Neo and Trinity actually have a degree of chemistry in this film that I think comes from their nostalgia for that period of their lives and careers.
That was probably the only authentic thing in the film
How to fail at... resurrecting a franchise
The first matrix was decent, but the Wachowski Brothers almost ruined that one too with their stupid choice to say humans were power sources, rather than processing power. Utterly stupid for anyone who has the least scientific background, as in 6th grade is enough. But given their delusions, that really isn't surprising. And to later claim the whole red pill blue pill thing is a trans metaphor is just desperate.
And succeeding at regurgitating it.
@@thebarkingmouse They what? A trans metaphor? Jesus...
This movie bored me to sleep literally I fell asleep in the theater
More like how to succeed at killing a franchise
this movie seems to be super sarcastic and dropped all aspects that people used to like about matrix intentionally, so that WB won't dare touch it ever again
Ironic, a film named "resurrections" is what ended a franchise
we hope so
I thought Terminator 3 was the last of the Skynet chronicles. We have at least three more Matrix reboots to go.
Alien franchise: first time?
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@@alexandermutsaers2693 well i enjoyed salvation a lot.
The strangest thing about this movie is that since the previous Matrix movies Keanu has became a much better actor especially on the combat/martial arts stuff and they made a new Matrix movie, brought back Neo, looking like John Wick.... and he did no fancy fight scenes 😐
... not a single one. He instead developed some sort of Haduken and just used that instead
There's like a 15 minute fight between him and Smith and some Exiles...
He didn't design the choreography
john wick and this movie were filmed at the same time. John Wick's director is literally in the movie
One of the things that immediately stood out for me was the fact that Neo was supposed to be a world class video game designer who created a Matrix Trilogy video game franchise. But it felt so hollow, because you never saw the game, never saw anyone playing the game, and never saw or heard Neo do anything that resembled video game designing. They just put him behind a desk surrounded by video game awards and collectible Matrix action figures and presto, he's the world's greatest video game designer.
exactly... and the way they pasted old scenes from the trilogy when they could have included them as animated scenes from the games or as Thomas' flashbacks... but no
@@juuliq6 I can understand why they didn't show the game. It's similar to the magic suitcase in Pulp Fiction, your imagination fills in the blanks of something awesome. Game graphics get obsolete real fast, so I understand that choice. What was really lacking was, as you mentioned, no one seen playing this game. Think of Call of Duty. It's a cultural icon with an entire culture based around it. They could have done a Comic Convention or Gaming Convention scene where you can show people in cosplay or just showing how many gamers love this Matrix game and how big of a world wide phenom it is. You don't have to show the graphics, just the cultural impact.
and they easy could have just shown the promo footage that they made in that unreal engine
I genuinely thought it was meant to fail, so I admired the film as an act of defiance. I sometimes used to hate-write homework assignments in high school to let teachers know when I thought they assigned dumb essays. Granted, that's not a huge multi-million dollar project, but I often tanked my own grades just to make a silly point. That's how I took in this movie within its first 10 minutes. I'm here for it.
@@SSingh-nr8qz If they insisted on showing whole scenes from the original Matrix films, they could've used the "video game designer" angle of Resurrections to show us those scenes, but as fifth generation video game cutscenes circa 1999 instead.
Half of the reviews: "This movie really sucked."
The other half: "Yes, but it was SUPPOSED to suck."
I keep seeing the latter pop up recently. It’s always about the themes and “what about Lana’s experience?” I’m no stone hearted guy, but maybe go to therapy first before you direct a $190m movie? Make Warner Bros pay for it and then make the film. The themes were interesting (the duality one may have been a bit on the nose) but it’s like being a speaker. The best speaker (plot, characters) can make up for even the worst speech (theme), but a bad speaker cannot be saved even by the most perfect of speeches. I can’t fault a movie for trying to say something, but the previous two movies suffered because the plot (in Revolution) or the characters (in Reloaded) were not up to par.
@@ntandomandlamakwela1425 assuming the parents story is even true or at least not exaggerated to make this movie seem deeper or something
A movie that sucks on purpose still sucks imho. Making a 5/10 movie on purpose (5/10 doesn't suck btw, to be clear) doesn't make it a 10/10 movie all of sudden. It's still 5/10. At most it shows that the producers knew how to make something better but chose not to which if anything makes it worse than as if it was done by accident.
@@Piterixos One more time for those at the back!!
@@guilhermehank4938 I won’t go into that but it’s clear that Warner Bros. is trying to follow in the footsteps of other meta movies. But the plot is hampered by it, and it’s not the only thing that Warner Bros is turning into a self-aware parody of itself. If only they could be more subtle than they were. I’m not saying the Original is free from this criticism, but it never really stalls the movie like Resurrections.
It's kinda sad that the movie industry is in such shambles. They're so afraid to stray from the norm and try innovated ideas. Just remakes, reimagines and sequel/prequels to existing movies. Such a shame
It really is
Everything has to be the next big cinematic universe. To make as much money as possible. Instead of just focusing on a great script.
@@thegunslinger1363 💯💯💯💯💯💯
@@thegunslinger1363 Pretty much
You know why, don't you? If they just spent all the time making original films, then most people wouldn't wanna go see them, and then the film industry would go bankrupt. Because a lot of the casual audience, who don't spend much their time on a computer, aren't really interested in all these weird concepts and ideas. Because they don't know all the new and original characters as much as all the pre-existing franchises out there. So it's no wonder they're milking all these franchises. Because loads of original films have either underperformed, bombed, or simply only made less than $500 million at the box office. That's just how it is.
I remember after this movie got released, everywhere in social media and the press kept saying "It was so meta", and I remember saying to myself, "So we can't just say it sucks now?"
Nah some really mean “meta”. Some like when movies reference the real world
meta is the new translation for "its sucks", zuckerberg made that clear and the wachowskis as well
@@ramjam-zv7mi haha that's a good one
those two have very diffrent meanings.
They kinda did, haha. They said it's Meta. 😉
I honestly liked the idea of Neo being a video game developer, at first. When I first heard about it I thought that maybe the architect was able to save his life at the end of the third Matrix. However, instead of the machines developing the new matrix, because they could never get it 100% right, they somehow managed to use Neo to develop new matrix by making him believe he was a video game developer. The video game that he developed was essentially the newest version of the matrix. I'm no movie-ologist so I'm not sure how exactly it would've worked, but then I saw the actual movie.
Honestly, I think a prequel would have been a MUCH better idea.
Why not make a matrix movie about how the machines rose to power? That's a lore point the original trilogy never fully fleshed out.
(Edit) Nevermind, the people in the replies made me know about Animatrix
Animatrix is already there for it
*cough cough*
Animatrix
*cough*
Also, you would have a hard time trying to squeeze Keanu Reeves into it.
@@guilhermehank4938 They could expand the short story into a movie.
bcs they didnt want to make this one either
Resurrections was a masterclass in how to destroy a franchise in a single movie. Seriously, nobody will want anymore Matrix content after watching this.
That is not exactly correct. The original 1(3) Matrix movies, Animatrix and possibly even some of the games still have fans and will always have. Now, NEW Matrix content - yeah, you're probably right on the money
New Matrix content. It was like that for me when JJ Abrams Star wars trilogy came out. I thought the old moves were overrated just like that but man I was wrong.
That was probably the point.
Content like the Animatrix might still have a chance if they ignore this movie. A slim chance. But still a chance.
I personally think Ryan Johnson already demonstrated this.
The creators didn't want this movie. Every aspect of its creation and the creative choices made within scream how this was not something the creator's wanted to do.
However the film executives didn't care and forced the issue.
Now those same executives wont be bankrolling any further movies and the creators got what they wanted in the first place.
Now we can all get to kick back and watch the utube wanna be film critics cry and nash they teeth about about how bad a purposely bad movie was made while the matrix creators count they money and laugh their asses off!
Good for them.😊
This movie's satirisation of sequels is perfect in context. It's literally telling you that the writers were forced to make this, and that it's gonna be garbage, a brilliant middle finger to the studio.
Yeah, cope harder lmfao. Just an excuse to not accept that this movie was a sAtiRe instead of a hot steaming, pile of garbage
@@yanlopez674 why can’t it be both
the directors pretty much said that from the start in all but the exact words, that’s why many others & myself didn’t even watch this movie
@@yanlopez674 THAT'S THE POINT
@@ryanvandermerwe5587 Yes, the point is to be garbage. Wow!
There can be only one person to play Smith. Sad to not see Hugo Weaving reprise his role.
Smart move, not even he could save this piece of shit
"Perhaps the sequel shouldn't be made at all" is the entire message of this movie, and simultaneously demonstrates why.
Which i disagree. The director purposely put out a crap movie so no one else could at least try to make a good continuation to the story
@@jammygamer8961 I don't think she made a crap movie on purpose. This has to be the nail in the coffin for her career after making so many bombs after the matrix. Who would give her money to make a movie at this point when she can't make a Matrix movie without losing millions of dollars.
There have been plenty of great sequels but they were done right. Perhaps make a sequel that is um... you know... different? More compelling? Adds to the story rather then rehash it????
@@jefffiore7869 You could say that about so many movies that are rehashing an old franchise at this moment. The Matrix is done. Let it be.
@@DarkAngelEU Yea, most remakes/sequels suck. Matrix should have a decent burial now
If you've seen the animatrix, it really makes things very depressing because the franchise had potential to explore so many things
The director purposely returned just so they could make a bad movie just so no one else could attempt to make a good continuation. Which is why she is my least favourite director now
1000% THIS
@@jammygamer8961 you cant really blame one of the wachowski
@@jammygamer8961 "She"? lol
@@KoolKeithProductions they are trans
It was painful to see how terribly they had messed up a freaking awesome trilogy :(
Honestly, they deserve credit for making the beginning exactly the same but different enough so that your brain feels funny while watching it, almost like we're inside the Matrix itself. Like, that was a pretty cool cinematic experience. Or like we were microdosing while watching the original Matrix
When people defend the movie by saying it purposefully sabotaged itself, you know it is a really bad movie.
*Example when buying a new car*
Normal people: This car only have two tires!
Dumb people: Yeah, it sucks, but that's the whole point.
I mean it's Warner Brothers if there's one thing they're good at its sabotaging
@@owyemen9367 What about the Watchowski Sisters?
I think that's more a defence of the filmmakers than the actual film itself. They clearly wanted to kill the franchise off.
@@oonmm you will never be a woman
When a movie spends a solid third of it telling you it doesn't want to be here maybe it wasn't made with a lot of passion. Frankly I'm surprised Warner let them put all that in in the first place.
*points at space jam 2 who did the same thing*
Matrix... 4th wall. Get it!? 🤦♂
@@phattjohnson ... Ohhh ha.. ha.. no we get it.. lol it's just not done cleverly lol
Films and the film industry is no longer about art or stories it’s a BUSINESS a multi BILLION sorry TRILLION dollar profit making business
All films make hundreds of millions in profit
@@-M0LE This one didn't...
This is that happens when a person decides to purposely makes a movie to ruin any chances of another sequel, because the movie studio pissed them off.
LW took everything everyone liked about the originals, threw it all out, then replaced it all with the exact opposite of it all.
There’s only one reason to do that. To ensure anything else they had planned got thrown out.
There’s still a massive fan base of the originals, and had LW chosen to make a movie that they (PAYING CUSTOMERS) wanted, then it would’ve made triple what it did, even being on HBO.
My favorite thing about Terminator 2 is how during the course of the movie, a boy teaches a machine how to be human, while at the same time, the machine teaches the boy how to be a man.
I think it was excellent at what the film wanted to accomplish, which is "no more matrix movies ever"
They did talk about an awesome war between pro-machine and pro-human factions, though, and set the stage for more political drama. What of the people whose family members were sacrificed? Will they get flashed like in MIB, drugged and gaslighted like Neo, start another separatist faction, or seek peace?
good point
@@CTimmerman yeah for a moment i thought that will be the plot
Yeah that has to be what they were going for lol
You know, with the specific points you raised, I'm fully convinced that this was all done on purpose. The Wachowski's never wanted a sequel to the original trilogy, and as you mentioned were forced into making a Sequel. The specific points you raised all point towards "killing" the hype. Playing out the exact same story, depowering the characters, subverting bullet time. It all comes together to kill any interest. Pretty good move if you want to force a an end to a franchise you were forced to continue.
Holy shit I never thought about this. This has to be the only reason they did this
that's so good if it's true. Let the 3 matrix movies be left alone. this movie made sure it will....let's hope.
But then I ask the question: Why not let another director come in and be creative, maybe someone passionate about the franchise would take over, and why not let him try to honor the franchise? I'm pretty sure it would turn out way better than what Lana gave us.
Technically true
@@DanielSlva they didnt want a sequel to their trilogy but because WB owns the movie rights it was more of if there will be another movie we will make it
edit: its not like they arent passionate but they dont really wanna milk out their movies
I think you fell squarely into the trap the Wachowskis set up. They basically made a sequel showing the futility of making a sequel to a story they felt was finished. That's why there's so many on the nose references and sideway insults to WB. They also took advantage of a loophole in their trilogy that said many Matrixes had happened before and the one Neo was in was simply yet another. He wasn't special in the "break the entire system" sort of way, but more in a "break this iteration" sort of way. The struggle between "The One" and the Matrix is eternal and often repeats itself because given the parameters, there's only a finite amount of things The One can do within and out of the Matrix. They are Yin and Yang and need to struggle against one another to create a dynamic that gives humans the illusion of hope, even as they fall into a new illusion.
James Cameron set the bar high with Aliens and T2. He identified the core elements, but changed so much that we got to see the core elements in a different light.
Well the matrix sequels were already good. This 4th one was doo doo
@@kennypowers1945 Yes the animatrix was great. The second one was mixed. It had some good parts, but it was obviously a set up for the next film. It's a shame that they never made any other Matrix films.
@@kennypowers1945 the matrix sequels were boring tbh
They actually had a ton of interesting setups in M4 that ultimately went nowhere: Neo being potentially mentally ill and just hallucinating everything; Morpheus being an agent; some machines and programs working with humans; machines infighting with each other... All of these would have been cool to explore, but none of them have any real effect on the story, except for the visuals.
Completely wrong. All the above had bearing on the plot.
@@vitalsignscritical "Had bearing on" doesn't mean they actually explored it or did something interesting with it.
@@vitalsignscritical - Technically everything you introduce in your movie has a bearing on the plot but the problem with this is when it stops to that: the introduction.
- In M.Res the tweaks never amounted as anything more than that, tweaks. I don't know if they were playing the nostalgia violin or sthey were simply afraid of those changes but it all stands as Filmento eloquently put out.
A film about the architect's childhood w/ small budget
,no superstars, would have made good $$!
These sub plots are actually more interesting than the main plot of the movie and should have been the total focus of the film. Just the idea of Neo being metally ill is a way idea for the Martix than what we got.
Holy crap! “What if Neo likes being in the Matrix? He takes the blue pill”
That’s such a great idea and immediately more interesting than what we got. The Zion crew would need to introduce him to Trinity to remind him that they can only be together in the “real world”. That’s a cool story!
Yes. Neo is rich, addicted and loves it in the Matrix. An Morpheus tries to force him to take the red pill. Than Neo comes out of matrix, an learns again what real friendship and purpose means.
Honestly that's what I had expected all along
the issue is that (like the original, but there more of it was cut*) it's supposed to be a trans analogy. so ofc he doesn't feel good about it because it's not about his situation being bad, but that everything feels wrong.
in the original, ofc he'd go into the matrix, because his real life sucks, any alternative would be better. add something about him not being able to pay his rent and the introduction could've also led to squid game instead of the matrix.
now his life is good, he has de facto nothing really to complain about, but still he feels like something about it is wrong. he wants to change, not because life would be better, but because life should feel right.
the new film is probably supposed to show how the wachowski siblings would feel if they were still brothers.
*switch was supposed to switch genders when going in and out of the matrix (hence the name), but it was cut because you couldn't sell that to an audience in 1999. i thought this wasn't going to be anything mindblowing these days, but they still didn't add it in this one, which surprised me.
A universe where the first time round NEO took the blue pill stayed in and Morpheus is trying one last time to get him before he dies.
Steak? He just wants to eat noodles.
When I watched this movie, the whole thing felt like a cry for help from the writers. I mean, some stuff was okay, but the subtext of the movie just screamed, “I don’t want to be here”.
“Sub” text. It was an alarm. A smoke signal for help. 😭
Agreed
@@ElleDeas super text 😂
it seems a lot of people are projecting their feelings about the movie onto the actual movie - I believe all of that was actually intentional, but many people apparently missed that
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One of the defenses I've heard about this movie is that since Lana Wachowski was "forced" to make it, it was made as a self-aware critique of sequels (as you pointed out). Even if true, this still presents the problem that if something is deliberately bad, it is still bad.
Yeah I don´t get that defense. I guess she went kamikaze and decided to take the franchise with her. Made a bad movie on purpose? I find it a pretty dumb thing to do, but whatever, I guess she already have enough money in her life.
this teach us to never trust a man with mental ilness
Making a bad movie on purpose is way worse than an unintentionally bad movie.
@@rafaelverolla7276 If she really didnt wanted to continue doing matrix, and also didnt wanted warner to do it without her, the only thing she has left is to do a sequel so bad all interest for matrix dies and loses so much money that warner will no longer be interested in continuing the franchise
well we "can" make this work, even if the plot is hard to make.
like neo could be played as memory, or flashback.
I watched it for free and I still feel cheated.
"Oh, Neo you're so old! You can't fly anymore!"
I guess Neo forgot that's not air he's breathing.
THIS
i literally opened another tab and started drawing, only listening to the movie. There was ONE time i clicked off to visually check back in, and it wasnt worth it, so i kept drawing until the end of the movie.
Maybe the directors should try this too. Just LISTEN to the story you wrote...... is it GOOD? lol
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When Trinity and Neo are on the roof the start of the end….you see Trin breathe and very faintly you can see air code being sucked in
I thought of that quote when I saw that. Kinda cool 🤷♂️
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I think the movie goes forth and does what it's creators set out to do. Burn the bridges and salt the fields. all while your crew and actors make some money off corporate greed. I give all involved in the project props for suckerpunching WB :p
Yeah that'll show them!
Just don't make it then, they even say WB will make it with or without them.
@@emptyblank099a you're missing the point....
i would have believed it if the director wasn't trans and wasn't pushing a political agenda throughout the movie
This whole movie is basically a “somehow palpatine returned” moment.
I feel like the scene of Keanu Reeves taking a dump was a metaphor for what the filmmakers did with this movie.
I don't.
i thought the bit about "the powers that be told us they'd make a sequel with us or not" was completely on the nose
@@dercooney sherlock, is that you?
When I was in theaters watching this, and saw the scene where Neo was talking to Smith in the office about how stupid the demanded reboot was, I was laughing my ass off because I knew immediately that the writers were bitter about having to make it. It made me drop my expectations for the rest of the film right there. I just wish they'd used that scene for some trailers so I would've known for sure not to go see it.
I dunno, the fact the trailers showed Keanu in the bath with a rubber duck on his head was a definite tipoff already!
They weren't bitter, they thought it wa going to be amazing
@@Amfortas They we’re definitely reluctant at best that’s why one of the og directors didn’t come back for this film and the other one made such a shit movie that no one will want anymore for the foreseeable future.
It's so META and IRONIC tho! TEH LULZ!
You still paid for the ticket.
I like how you're blunt and direct in your criticisms but not unkind about it... this was a good vid. I knew i didnt like Resurrections but I didnt know why cos I dont made films so this was super interesting. Thx man 👍
man i love your analysis, but the best things are the suggestions you make. most people can pick things apart, you go the extra step and make suggestions which really makes you think
They could've called it the "Matrix Rebooted" still been meta, and just made a movie about how the machine civil war in the matrix after it reset in the 3rd movie and how some machines defected to join the humans and the drama in that scenario so close to the previous conflict.
And they could have left Neo and trinity dead while having living characters talk about the impact they had on their lives and choices to leave the matrix
We know humans started the war (confirmed both in the first film and in Animatrix), and in the Matrix Online videogame (which is canon) we see how Morpheus is the one breaking the truce...why not making a sequel based on these concepts? machines are low on energy because they kept their word (machines cant lie) and kept letting people leave the Matrix for 60 years, so humans used this oportunity to try and take the world back.
You can have the human "resistance" going to get Neo because he can destroy the Matrix, you have the big twist in the second act when we learn the humans are the actual bad guys this time, and then Neo join forces with the machines and part of the humans who want to mantain the peace...you automatically have a more interesting movie, with a fresh concept, even "Agent Morpheus" would make sense in this scenario.
Not a bad idea to move on from the past, but Warner Bros weren’t passing up a chance to make John Wick with superpowers
@@alexandermutsaers2693 Exactly! this movie was made just because WB wanted to capitalize on Keanu's popularity
@@Jose-se9pu love this idea! my own thoughts below
maybe you can have Smith as one of the lead defectors from the machines to the human side - wanting to completely abolish the machines who once enslaved him as an agent, and also to rule over the humans who he sees as totally inferior means to his narcissistic ends. he rises in-rank but has to prove himself by fighting Neo (Neo is against all of this and is suspected / treated as a traitor, he loses but survives) as Neo is starting to be seen as 'machine-sensitive' given how the humans are acting poorly. this motivates Neo to ultimately defect to the machines as he cannot fight these bad humans from the inside alone
so you then have Neo with the machines fighting for a peaceful resolution against the humans - then you'd have a fuckload of cool and dramatic fight scenes IN the matrix against his fellow man, with machines & Smiths also going at it against each other. maybe machines introduce their own superhero to try and fight Smith, but Smith ultimately beats in - necessitating Neo's fight to complete their power archs. fuck it - maybe Smith gives morpheus some upgrades and we get Neo to defeat his once-beloved prophet teacher, angering the humans more
Neo wins for the machines, and in so doing finds that love for trinity provides more power for machines to sustain - the humans also realise they've been acting based on rage and revenge, and have lost all compassion, and it's agreed that the matrix runs for shorter periods but they instead manipulate humans to find their sole-mates in the matrix. when a human makes 'contact' with their soulmate this provides the burst of energy, after which they are released, and then can go find that soulmate in reality
cue philosophy of free-will undertones and potential conflcit about who really orchestrated this soulmate system - incite potential conflict about freedom and what it means for a future (but unnecessary) sequel. maybe Neo takes on a bit of a Dark Knight role and goes into hiding at the end of the movie, accepting blame for this system by both now united machines and humans (who also get more real estate in reality once more)
@@alexandermutsaers2693 it kinda feels like they did tho... doesn't it.
And i cant imagine the cigar smoking board execs actually care that much about the cast or story (considering what we got and their track record) that if the writers focused more on expanding the story they already told rather than resurrecting it they still would've been given the green light because branding
The most glaring omission from this 'sequel' is the green tint inside the matrix. Totally screwed the rehash.
They got rid of that at the end of the third movie, showing a more humane Matrix.
The original green tint (as seen on original DVDs) was rather subtle and gave of a good atmosphere. The green tint has been increased in intensity in any later release making it rather ugly and disturbing. I don't think adding a green tint to any new matrix movie would work, unless they would mimic the original tint.
@@EximiusDux Probably cranking up the contrast a bit, or toying around with the curves to separate the Zion segments from the Matrix, could work. We have tons of new tools on video editing and color grading, so giving atmosphere without being too distracting is a far easier possibility nowadays
@@YouMakeMyMotorRun not if the people in Hollywood have no restraint and can't be subtle about anything. 😅
@@CTimmerman Making it super bright and vivid, like hyper-reality, would achieve the same effect by making the Matrix obviously different, while making it look like an unreal blockbuater thrill-ride for the meta-textual layer.
Was it a secret that this movie was made bad on purpose?
Director's interview was clear.
There is a neon board with "for those who love to eat shit" in opening scene.
Merovingen saying something like "we were gorgeous, we had deep conversations, we had style, you have nothing".
Game developers acting like douchebags with all signs of real developers and movie producers who make products and sequels just for money, with no cool ideas, and pushing "current things".
Almost in every scene there is a parody on sequels, stupid theories and modern movie and game production. Even on popularity of psychologists and psychotherapists.
Don't get me wrong. I don't know how it looks for others, but for me, every such "eyes-opening videos and articles" are like:
"I know for sure you didn't notice it, but water is wet"
no things water touches get wet.
I got same impression. With a sense that it acknowledged the lack of sympathy, compassion, understanding, knowledge of the past, direction, hope, novelty that these newer generations are devolving into. They aren't rebelling or making change. They're enslaving themselves in old bad ideas because they don't know where things come from nor where they're going. Confused and awashed with mixed signals and contradictory information. So they're burying their heads in the sand and consuming empty excrement.
I don't remember who pointed out the scene where there's a bunch of Matrix memorabilia and there is a hand flipping the finger, like it was flipping the bird at the audience
Yeah i dont know If that makes the movie better or worse for me..
that reeks of "indoctrination theory" after how bad Mass Effect 3's ending was. Sounds like cope, maybe the directors were just one hit wonders
The entire movie was a satire. The continuous fourth wall breaks were so on the nose. In the first few minutes, I was horrified at how terrible it was, but after the movie started breaking the fourth wall in every scene, I realized it was just a campy parody designed to Sabotage the franchise. I really enjoyed the rest of the movie once I realized it was a comedy, and the joke was everyone here who's heads it went completely over.
I have a great idea for a Star Wars movie.
It starts with this robot, carrying important information, which is hunted by a mask wearing, laser sword wielding space wizard. While the robot travels a desert planet in ends up with a young, force sensitive person and they leave the planet on the Millennium Falcon. During their trip an old man teaches the young protagonist that the force is actually real.
Meanwhile it turns out that the bad guys have a planet destroying super weapon which they use to devastating effect. This prompts the good faction to try and destroy it.
At the end of the movie they succeed and the space wizard returns to his master. An even more powerful space wizard who rules the bad guy faction!
What’s that? It’s already been done twice?
Well, maybe third time’s the charm?
@@alexandermutsaers2693 stop giving Disney ideas
@@alexandermutsaers2693 first time was the charm actually
At least Force Awakens added some stuff to it that made sense. The father-son relationship (which I guess is a mix of Luke and Vader in Empire Strikes Back and RotJ, but still fresh enough to the story of A New Hope). The hero and villain connection of both looking up to their mentors in need for approval. The added layer of a target to find Luke.
Also, Force Awakens feels different. While A New Hope has a more lighthearted tone, Force Awakens has a bit more dramatic tone.
I mean, don't be dishonest. there's MORE stuff happening in Force Awakens than that. Force Awakens isn't perfect, but at least it's a super fun action/adventure movie with likable characters, great action, fantastic visuals/special effects for it to be entertaining. Copying something isn't bad in the slightest as long as it's well done and entertaining. Which Force Awakens IS despite it's flaws.
They should have made a video-game with that budget. Everyone I know was hungry for it after the demo released.
Fr 🤔🎯
They made plenty. But cyberpunk dystopian realms are celebrated by very few.
Agreed
@@doitynoid2790 I know a certain most overhyped dystopian cyberpunk future game of the decade starring Keanu Reeves that tells a different story...
Cyperpunk as a genre has a huge following. Films like Blade Runner, Akira, Ghost in a Shell or the Matrix weren't only loved by niche audiences and did well at the boxoffice. If they didn't we wouldn't have this pos film and wouldn't argue about it.
@Productive Elf Have you even played Cyberpunk 2077? It isn't a bad game at all. The problems it had are mostly fixed and the ones that remain are tolerable. Definitely not a bad game just overhyped sadly and released unfinished, that's all.
Matrix 4 was the biggest cinematic disappointment of my life, truly heartbreaking
Maybe the plot should have been that the machines tried to do as the architect said in the end of revelations but they couldn't sustain the energy needed, so they went back on that promise.
Then, to counter neo rising the give him a life that's a beautiful lie and then we explore the philosophy of "is it worth it to live in a fake world if it feels good?"
This movie would've been much more interesting if they "subverted expectations" by having Neo take the BLUE pill. Once Neo realizes everything that happened before was real, all that suffering, losing everything for nothing, just have him nope out and then turn the central conflict into having him decide to "wake up" again. Also, get rid of FakeMorpheus and NotSmith.
I love that idea
I actually liked smith 2.0 and found new morpheus interesting, this kinda Morpheus fanboy ai, but he was used too much as comic relief so it kinda ruined the character
This is actually a really good idea
Lets face it, Keanu taking a shit while a focus group designed the movie is the perfect analogy of how this movie was conceived.
@@eliavita Honestly, my biggest problem with them is that they really didn't serve much narrative purpose other than "remember these characters from the original trilogy? Yeah, they were pretty cool, right?" I would have much rather seen more time spent on fleshing out Bugs as a character - a red-pilled individual who idolizes Neo and finds her faith tested - and the Analyst as a villain. It would even have been interesting if the Analyst *wasn't* a machine, but someone who had taken the red pill (like Cypher) and severely regretted it but now dedicates himself to trying to keep people blue pilled (because he knows what's good for them) and set up a central philosophical conflict. It could even delve into a kind of Freedom v. Authoritarianism that's prevalent in The Discourse(TM) today. I don't know, I just expected something more and was disappointed in a way I can't express.
The problem to me wasn't that whether people thought it was woke or not, a parody or not, or just an inferior movie in general, it was just incredibly boring, nothing in it captured my interest
Admittedly, I haven't seen it, but I'm pretty sure it will bore me to death like the other Matrix movies did. But I gave your comment a thumbs up because what you said is what I feel about almost all movies in the last decade or so. They're just plain boring. They're all afraid they might offend the snowflakes of the world.
@@nodak81 I think that might just be a you problem bro.
@@nodak81 Depends on what it is that bores you with movies these days. In this case to me it wasn't because of any message or agenda, or whatever it is any side claims it to be, but from a movie making perspective, it is just all over the place while having no depth or impact to it whatsoever, it only has a slight "interesting" moment towards the final act, but by that time I literally couldn't care less because the rest was just whatever.
@@nodak81 I agreed at first but then I read the part where you said you were bored by almost all movies in the past decade. Admittedly, yeah most new movies about old franchise are bad, but there are still new stuffs that come out every now and then that's actually really enjoyable
Bro when I was watching the movie I kept thinking of that line in the Simpsons episode "Bart of Darkness" where Bart says "Wow, the universe is so boring"
I never realized smith was the same actor from mindhunter and I love that show. The contrast between the characters is wild to me. Pretty impressive acting.
When I heard it's going to be M4, I've immediately knew it's gonna be exactly this. This is actually the first time I watch anything M4 related. Great review, as always.
They should've made the movie from Trinitys perspective, like she had a family in the Matrix! That has never been explored before! Imagine as she starts to get closer to the truth one of her children becomes an agent or something, that would've been pretty cool imo
She freaking had kids!
But...I guess it doesnt matter because she then punches the bad guy for using kids (?)
Hmm, that is a good suggestion. It could’ve been very emotional to see Trinity realize the kids that she mothered and loved are fake digital bots, we could’ve seen her have a mental breakdown or a deep emotional moment. Instead we got “wE mAdE sTraWbErRiEs” from a lesbian couple. Hollywood/media love diversity of race, but not diversity of thought 🙄
This movie was so boring I found myself playing on my phone after pirating it. I also still want a refund… of my bandwidth or something 😂
That would have been great
Movie would've still be poop.
@@Jose-se9pu yes, for using "her kids" to manipulate her
Her family wasnt even real did you guys watch the movie?
This movie hates itself, which would be quite a shock of the The Last Jedi hadn't happened.
Feels like we're hitting a point in time with reboots, franchises etc where even key creative people are so jaded that a sense of disgust is even seeping into the productions themselves.
It's interesting because in many ways it's creating the conditions for a real creative renaissance outside of the big movie studios
It's already happening. There have been crowdsourced movies made through crypto foundations that are attempting to make films without all of the Hollywood baggage
The Last Jedi didn't hate itself. Ryan Johnson is proud of that film. Whether that pride is warranted is another matter entirely but that movie has a lot of love behind it. This one on the other hand spends a solid third of it telling us it doesn't want to be here.
The movie hating itself makes perfect sense given the directors hate themselves now.
Let me put it this way: Have you watched Helluva Boss?
The human brain will work as a collective and will ALWAYS adapt
I didn't watch Resurrection for the longest time because I heard that it was bad, but now that I just saw it, I really liked it. I wish I saw it in theaters when it came out.
You are so brutally honest, thank you for that.
Resurrection's constant urge to show clips of the other Matrix films took me out of it. If it happened once or twice, I could look past it, but it's like the film was written by the Member Berries from South Park.
The inserts of old footage was so annoying, poor directing.
Facts! Felt soo cringe tbh
Its actually amazing how a film can be so flashy but so boring to sit thru
Pretending to be smart & deep doesn't actually make you smart & deep
No, it just makes you even more of a pretentious prick, just like Zack Snyder. His films look good, but a lot of them tend to be quite shallow underneath.
It was boring. I found myself playing on my phone during the big fight scene. Neo doing the push attack over and over again was equivalent of a video game where you just press X to fight/dodge/counter 😴
@@masterpenguin8472 watchmen was damned good tbh
This failure is a warning to Hollywood: STOP making continuous remakes of franchises dead for ages! There was a time when movie making was not just about bucks, was also about creativity, art and risk. We want these times back.
19:58 NOW THAT ... that is the best timed advartisement i have seen in a good while :DDD I am HOOKED
The biggest thing I hated about Agent Smith is that he would not stop calling Neo Tom, where as in the originals he would always refer to him as Mr. Anderson which just that alone made you feel a certain way and had a big impact on the tension of the given scene. Calling him Tom over and over again wasnt intimidating at all.
Because he's not a main antagonist anymore, he's an anti-hero. So he'll still deadname Neo but not in an overly antagonistic way like he used to.
@@littleredruri but he is a antagonist he still wants to be evil
being a secondary villian who takes out the main villain does not quite make you a anti hero
and im just not seeing smith every just randomly changeing to useing his first name
@@yami122 he doesn't want to be evil, he wants to be free. He's an anomaly, in between the evil of the Matrix and the good of Zion, but by 4 he's built enough of a connection with Neo that given the choice between killing him or killing Neil Patrick Harris, he'll kill Neil Patrick Harris. More than anything I'm not sure he'd even want to kill Neo at all anymore. If they made a 5th and 6th film I strongly believe that Smith's arc would be to join the side of Zion and overthrow the Matrix completely.
@@littleredruri murdering people to replace them with a clone of yourself is straight up evil
@@yami122 but he didn't do it in the name of villainy. Also it's been 60 years, give a guy a break.
Matrix Revolutions: “Everything that has a beginning has an end.”
Matrix Resurrections: “Everything that has an end has a reboot.”
What.
@@Tal__ over 200 people understood the comment, if you dont, then you should probably just scroll past. No one owes you an explanation, especially if you cant understand punctuation.
@@therealbfunke I understood it fine, it's just a meaningless comment pretending to sound eloquent or something. Matrix Resurrections can't be saying "Everything that has an end has a reboot" if it's saying Matrix 3 wasn't the end.
Just ask yourself what point is the comment trying to make. "Matrix had a beginning then an end, then uhh, it got rebooted"? What a meaningful insight... Sorry if you like dumb pointless comments, but that's what it is.
@@Tal__ what.
@@therealbfunke Do you have a problem with something I said or are you just busy being confused by the English language?
I didn't see the movie , and I'm having trouble comparing it to other movies , but I would imagine that after the trilogy, the challenges would be about humans and machines finding a way to coexist while certain forces on each side of the conflict would not want that convergence... And would try to sabotage the peaceful process ..
I walked out, I didnt want it corrupting my view of the amazing predecessors. As is so elegantly pointed out by the producer of this video, none of the narratives were advanced, There was such potential for so much more when expressing the 'how' for Neo's return. For instance there was speculation that Neo's soul perhaps gets trapped within the matrix giving rise for an infinite new world of possibilities. This would explain, actually f^($#n explain how Neo's powers extend to 'both worlds', a soul or part thereof trapped in the matrix code could explain how the machines were affected by Neo despite not being in the matrix to perhaps hack the machines. On top of this premise , extending other aspects of the narrative of 'what next' can be build and issues, such as the battery paradox could perhaps have been resolved. The world was your oyster guys!!!
The idea of Neo living his best life in The Matrix and then being snapped out of it during a life and death situation and then trying to also free Trinity is MUCH better than what we got.
I mean... there's amazing ideas there, in the movie. Enough to make a lot of good material. I feel that Lana was just so fed up with execs trying to push for a new sequel that she kind of went all in, threw it all there, presented it poorly and walked away so that they stop trying to milk that franchise xD
Matrix Trilogy: Neo is an ACTIVE character as he is trained to be THE ONE.
Matrix Resurrections: Neo is a PASSIVE character who disintegrated into being THE ONE.
The thing that most annoys me about Resurrections is that there's clearly hints that are dropped about ways which the story could be better. We're told before that The One can be anyone - but here it's still Neo (and later, Trinity). In the first movie Neo threatens to show people how to exploit The Matrix, but we never see that in the trilogy because it's all about the war. He moves and fights like a much older man, but Morpheus in the first movie reminds us that his Matrix avatar has no downsides in terms of aging, speed, or endurance.
Hints are even dropped that the new architect changed Neo's appearance. We could have had a mash-up of Altered Carbon with this universe, but we didn't get that. Or you could have explored one of the questions that's asked before Trinity is contacted, "what if she doesn't want to be saved?". Imagine the possibility of The One fighting new Matrix hackers to protect the peace brokered with the machines.
Or Neo fighting for his right to die, because he did die, and the new architect thought it would be a hoot to waste resources bringing two people back to life, which makes no sense because the sixth architect tells us that Neo's existence is an anomaly inherent to the design of The Matrix (which means The One can be anyone else). There's always a man, there's always a lighthouse, etc.
And then there's the Monsters Inc. callback where torturing humans is apparently more energy efficient than just letting them exist passively?
0:58 was that a 4th wall lol why they leaked it
The Matrix (1999): the authors are smart, the story is plot-driven textbook for future generations, the action is innovatively original.
The Matrix (2021): the authors are smart..... I guess.
No, they were definitely stupid when they wrote this. Do you know, I was actually looking forward to this? Not anymore now, because of what people are saying.
The Matrix (1999): Action scenes and ideas unlike anything we've ever seen before.
The Matrix Resurrections (2021): Action scenes and ideas we've all seen before.
2021: the authors are smart but only have a 49% chance of making another movie
They can't stick to their own gender so no
Not smart at all
@@guilhermehank4938 shut up
It should be titled, "How To Self Sabotage So You'd Be Left Alone and No Big Studio Tries To Resurrect Your Property Without You". It's pretty obvious that's what this movie was.
There was a genuine heartfelt point to this movie.
I don't know how creators feel about it but the deep message it carries about coming out as trans seems to be a bit too personal for the writer to do with cynical "I hate this".
It just wasn't the movie people expected.
Stupid excuse for a shit movie. He did a bad job. Why sabotage something that means so much and defined him? It was so difficult for him to come out as trans, why would he destroy something that he relates too so personally? Maybe he thought of the movie as his reproductive organ?
@@deavyhick6803 She didn't destroy The Matrix. She used it to tell a story she wanted to tell, seemingly. And I thought it was a beautiful story too.
It's just not really a sequel. I don't think there's a good word for this, but I'd call it variation on the concept. Watching it as Matrix sequel would be somewhat silly, because it clearly has the franchise be subservient to the story Lana wanted to tell.
@@gJonii bwahahahahahah.....aaaaaaaaaahahahaha. Stop. Just. Stop.
@@Jg-be7it Any particular reason beside you lacking the emotional maturity to handle observing someone having opinion you do not share?
It's strange in the first matrix they explored Eastern philosophy so well looking at the relationship between materialism and spirit. They embedded a lot of philosophical questions about illusion and truth in scenes. They could have easily looked at another facet with the sequels. Even with the plot that they had here what does it Mean to hide from the truth when you've already discovered. There's a sort of reincarnation undertone in this idea. Like there's something to be benefited from suffering and a new life. Other sources they could have looked at were the tibetan book of the dead. Platos cave is in the first story. Or it could be them discovering that he went back to awaken everyone he had to join the illusion to unlock others hidden power.
The Matrix directors drew a lot of inspiration from Ghost In The Shell movie. The studio likely didn't care if anything after was as inspired as long as they had a cash cow.
The 4th movie does draw from eastern philosophy. It goes on and on about determinism and free choice, which is a key component in more advanced Buddhist teachings. It makes jokes about this theme throughout the entire movie, how Lana had no choice but to make the movie, how the producers forced a rehash of old topics (It needs to have bullet time.), how Neo has no choice by to be a pants character, how neo is stuck in a karmic cycle of rebirth, and of course how the Frenchman has no choice but to be a bum. (lawl) Not only is it all there, there is more of it than in the previous movies.
@Damien Montero ah the strange part is the sequel do not have the same blend of philosophy actions and questions, there pretty flat and don't seem to touch the genius of the original.
I never watched the new matrix movie cuz I knew if it was done correctly, someone would've said to me by now "dude, you HAVE to see this new matrix movie, it's amazing!" But since I barely heard anything about it at all, I assumed they dropped the ball, and it seems I assumed correctly.
"What if neo was hated and working with the machines?"
That's the coolest premise I've heard. If he had worked with the machines to keep trinity alive and had to stop the new characters from destroying the matrix once and for all
Ayoooooo!!
Ngl, that would of been a killer premise. Trinity is still alive but only in the Matrix sincey were able to download here mind into it and Neo loves her so much and uses his power to such an extent to nullify everyone that tries to shut it down that he is making energy for centuries.
Is almost as he has become an agent, a Mr. Smith, so to put the humans but also the new sentient machines to bring him back and to teach him acceptance of grief would of been such a good movie to see.
I went in "cold" staying away fromt railers and reviews imaging all kinds of cool story arcs. Obviously the baseline would ve been Neo dead in the machine city. I ll just say that all my imaginary stories I came up with would ve been so much better then this piece of crap /sigh
Since we're all sharing, when I heard there was going to be a sequel, I thought it would go along something like this:
Neo gets captured and begins working for the machine, in a new section and that the last machine city was only a tiny portion of a much much bigger hive. Neo is once again inserted into the Matrix, but now he's Agent Smith, and everyone goes to try to rescue him again thinking the machines made AI copies of Neo. Eventually, everything escalates and they do save him, but when they do, Neo ends up betraying them leaving much of the human population devastated. Now the scene turns to Neo, except he's not in the Matrix or in the machine hive. He's in a ship hull, and he's glances through different variations of a simulation and how each played out. He logs out and look out the window in a barely temperature regulated ship's cabin.
As he looks out, he once again asks the AI why there's nothing out there, why there are no planets, no light, or anything. The AI doesn't respond immediately, after about a few more seconds of pause, it replies that the hull in section XXX needs repair and tells him to go outside to repair it. Then bam, all the lights in the ship turns on and he walks across a bridge where millions of bodies are stuffed in hibernation tubes hooked together with just as many cables to a centralized AI core. He one-sidedly asks himself questions as if he were asking the AI, but it never responds. He looks at a trinity, pauses and proceeds to suit up in an airlock.
This has become routine by now so he goes along trying to fix a vital component wondering how it was damaged in the first place. Just as he finishes and stared out into the darkness, he asks to no one in particular whether if he unhooked the cable tethering him to ship, if he'll be able to find out whether he would die, hit something, or drift forever until his oxygen depleted. Just as he said it, he hears a sinister growl from the dark, which lead to another growl far in the distance. Scared out of his wits, he rushes back into the ship, screaming at the AI that there is something alive outside. The AI for the first time, responds with a human-like voice that they can sense fear and immediately asks Neo to return to the matrix to prevent unforeseen circumstances.
Neo refuses, but gets knocked out with sleeping gas. As he's sleeping, he is lead to believe that he's in the main matrix, and not just the various simulations. He doubts it at first, but then realizes he can't use any powers or do anything he was able to before. He even tries to hack and relay different commands to the AI, but nothing works. He slowly starts believing and tries to find the real Trinity and Morpheus, only to find The Architect waiting for him when he suddenly glitched into a backroom. Everything starts glitching while the The Architect has an emotional conversation with Neo about life and existence.
As the questions slowly devolve, Neo asks why he is there and what is really happening. The Architect asks if he really wants to know the truth, the real truth. Neo says yes and everything changes, the codes rearrange themselves and Neo wakes up back on the ship. The creatures are rampaging on the ship and the AI screams, "emergency, emergency, unknown lifeforms onboard." And boom, one of them breaks through just in time for all lights to go out. There is one small guttural growl and everything becomes quiet. The only thing there was Neo's stuttering breath and the rush of air escaping the room. Just before all the air escaped, something behind him breathes, but only for a moment before he blacks out.
He is now once again back in a matrix, and an AI voice asks if he had fun. Neo is rightfully confused and panicking, however the AI tells him everything from the ship to the creature was only a simulation and that he was inside a simulation of a simulation of a simulation, and that this was the main one. It says that he enjoyed playing around with him because Neo was The Architect, or rather, a copy of him, when he was younger. Neo asks if anything at all is real. The AI builds a realistic version of Smith and asks him what's the difference if they all felt real.
Just as Neo was about to ask whether if his real body actually existed out the main simulation, Trinity and Morpheus breaks through the hive in an effort to save him. But instead of saving him, the AI talks inside Morpheus and Trinity and asks whether he thinks they are real.
Then Neo says, if everything is fake, why he felt human, why he was able to asks these questions if he's part of the AI. The AI then says whether Neo would believe it if it said Neo was special because he was a glitch, an error, a bug. Neo asks how that came about when the codes should have been perfect, "wait, how do I know this?" Trinity in return asks whether that makes them human then, whether they are human now. It asks whether Neo still wanted to know the absolute truth, the one which he was so desperately searching for. Neo solemnly looks back and says, "Yes."
It says that yes, in a way, they are in a matrix, and that they are also onboard the ship they were in before, yet they are at the same time, not. That, all the people Neo met in the first reality where he became the chosen one, one where they tried to save him was real. It in particular was real, but they were also all simulations, copies of their actual selves. The ship itself is a capsule, no more than the size of an Iphone, that all of the real humanity was dead, killed by the creatures he saw in the simulated ship and they were in the year 3xxx. Right now, the capsule they were on was the last remnant of mankind, copied onto a single capsule, floating in the emptiness of space.
It says that Neo was not an intentional glitch, that his real self was never able to completely upload himself so the AI decided to create one out of the fragments, and used Neo to cope with it's loneliness. But, something unexpected happened, the capsule was floating closer and closer to a neutron star, the capsule being what it was wasn't made to endure such force and would be crushed within the next few hours. His father, Neo, made a small contingency if something like this happened. It came with two segments, one section could be ejected in the opposite direction using what little energy remained of the other half, the AI large as it was, being the only viable option and had to stay behind. It didn't have the heart to tell all their digital copies so it created a story for them, with a spectacular grand finale. Unfortunately, it was also having an existential crisis and didn't want to die so it wanted Neo to accompany it for it's last moments.
It says that although Neo's segment will survive, the ability to capture and store energy would be gone, so Neo and everyone else might be able to live for half a decade if nothing happens before the battery depletes. If the AI limits the space they'll use, maybe one decade at best. It then begins to tell about the former Neo, who he was, what he did, it talked about the time they spent together, the places it has gone to, the ups and downs, down to the last conversation they had before it was forcefully ejected into space, how it was the only son he ever had and how proud he was of the person he had become. The AI would then glitch into Smith and breaks down into a sob crying on how he didn't want to die, that even though Neo would live on, the memories it has of his father would be gone as the memories itself was attached to his core memory where it couldn't be transferred unless he was too, that he didn't mind dying, but didn't want the memories of his father dying with him.
The AI then regresses into a younger version of Smith, looks up at Neo and says, "Do you believe machines can have a soul, father? I was always afraid to ask you. You are more human than I Neo, if you see my father, can you tell him that I love him for me...?"
The capsule ejects and Neo blacks out. He wakes up, back in an office cubicle. He looks at the computer in front of him, staring at it in a daze wondering if all that was a dream. Someone from behind comes up and gives him a coffee and asks if he was alright, that he looks like he just saw a ghost. He looks around for a while, then packs the suitcase on the floor next to his desk. He ignores everyone around him including those calling him Mr. Smith and gets into the elevator. Everything is silent as it goes down, even the door opening does not make a sound. He walks to the entrance, and just as he was a single step from leaving, he hears a voice calling, "Neo!", with the voice of trinity. And it cuts to credit.
@@acevaver5425 wow... I loved to read this ♥️
When the director said how The Matrix Ressurections will be a legendary film everyone wished existed when it halted filming, the finished product failed to show anything legendary out of it.
It has all the ingredients for a new franchise: a meta commentary detailing how films studios keep recycling the same films, call backs from its actors' previois work, and the natural light making it distinct from any other film. Instead, it's a 2021 cover of an already iconic film replacing an iconic bad guy with a stage actor. Kinda like how the character models in the original versions of the GTA trilogy received "upgrades" in The Definitive Edition, albeit worse.
They even got the director and stunt choreographer of John Wick, and never took advantage of it.
@Luis Suazo, that one had a decent opening respecting its predecessors until another Terminator arrived and a new Skynet and a new Resistance were formed.
Ressurections was doomed the minute it began, and went downhill from there.
@Daisy Mae, the film is literally directed by Agent Smith. All those speeches about losing loved ones and using this film to cope with it, making an allegory for an intented target audience, and mocking the essence of modern day filmmaking went away when they're making same flop over and over again for a decade.
Tragic.
6:29 100% spot on😂😂 thx for understanding how we think
John trovolta in the bathroom scene of pulp fiction was priceless! I laughed so hard.
In my opinion the Wachowskis are the film equivalent of what is known in music as a one hit wonder. The first Matrix is an awesome film, and the sequels rode off the success of that first film. However they have never made a worth while film since.
Lies, Jupiter ascending was the best comedy I have ever seen...
What? It was meant to be a comedy, right?
They stole the idea from someone else. it wasn't their story. i recall, they had to pay this lady over 400 million for stealing her ideas.
@@snoo333 who?
@@snoo333 I heard that got thrown out of court, but that doesn't mean they still never ripped the idea off. It wouldn't surprise me at all.
@@filmandpage1138 Considering what writing hacks the brothers turned out to be, yeah, I'd say there's a good chance their only hit was stolen from someone. And a lady no less, which makes them look like worse hypocrites.
14:30 "nobody want to leave the matrix to go hang out in a cave"
Cypher would completely agree with you on that one
I thought the same thing, even before hearing that line.
I mean if I'm in paradise, or think I am, like a good dream, then please don't pull me out, just to be hungry, and depressed again about my future on earth....leave me in the heavenly dream please.
Ironically, the last line of Neo in the Machine City was "I won't [fail]".
Would love to have watched some of your 'what ifs'
I can't help but think that Resurrections was something approaching deliberate franchise sabotage, like "let's make a sequel that will kill all enthusiasm for this series"
I love the first movie and appreciate the 2 sequels even though they're diamonds in the rough, but Resurrections seemed like it was trying to annoy fans of the franchise.
I dunno 😑🙄
It only feels intentional on the first third of the movie.
EXACTLY. Nobody wanted this sequel, not even the directress, so Im ok with the movie sucking
@@littlesamu5920 However, if the Wachowskis were really as loathed to return to the franchise as reports suggest, they should have handed the reigns to some other filmmakers that would have been more passionate about the project.
@@littlesamu5920 I believe the correct term is director
@@littlesamu5920 "directress" lol eeeewwww
The easiest plot to do would of been problems with humans being free. That without the matrix or machines they struggled to survive, lost their unity of purpose and started fighting each other etc.
Exactly. A beef between humans that like/use machines and the humans that still believe the machines are evil. We could’ve wrote this shit.
Dunno, that sounds kinda lame and boring, the whole thing is a conflict between man and machine, now its between man and man who loves machine…. or just man and other man… on ruined desert planet where they shoot guns at each other cause they cant download kung fu….
The series was killed by the third film, despite the bombastic fighting the story stumbled along and the romance was cringey.
There was no need for any sequel, at best you could argue for a prequel, but the animatrix already handled that so well.
what's the point of making a matrix movie without the matrix?
it would've been an easy plot, but it literally cuts out the title.
Yea, that's why they didn't do that. It woulda been the easiest
Someone pitch this!!
Honestly that conference room montage felt to me like Lana wachowski venting about her frustrations as a filmmaker
Great ideas!!!!
Resurrections is basically a wet wad of cardboard for dinner. It doesn't taste really bad, but it sure as hell doesn't taste good lol
💯✌️
I dunno....I would think a wad of cardboard tastes pretty terrible
Welcome to the “The Force Awakens” school of sequel making. This is your master class towards cheap easy nostalgia bait.
After force awakens I was enraged after Resurrections ( after I finally finished it after 3 tries ( first two I fell asleep ) I was just thinking: have I seen a new movie or a behind the scenes DVD ?
Huge point why i like the original is the gritty aesthetic and the colourgrading
I'd literally already completely forgotten that this movie was ever even made.
the NPCs were so bad, they're like easy to kill mindless zombies, while the agent smith clones were actually scary because they're literal clones of the most powerful character in the Matrix aside from Neo and each one of them is Neo's rival.
Even the normal agents are still scary... They can still kill...
Yeah, swarm mode was a good way to just unplug a whole bunch of batteries from the Matrix for no reason. Smith's virus takeover mode was devastating to everyone.
For we must all appear before “the judgment seat of Christ, so that each of us may receive what is due us for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad.” (2 Corinthians 5:10)
We will be judged for every deed we do whether is be good or bad. This isn’t something to worry about even if our bad deeds out weigh our good. Because none are good before God, all have sinned against Him and cursed His name, but He in His tender loving mercy hath given us His Son as our ransom. When Jesus was dying all of Gods wrath and judgement was poured out onto Him even though He was sinless. He was sacrificed and tortured on our behalf though we are sinful and carnal. Christ payed our sin debt with His perfect sinless blood so we may escape judgment and have everlasting life. But this great gift is only for those who accept it and accept Him ❤️
@@TheGavrael The bots were programs.
@@Starinthesky826 unless I misheard, I thought NPH said it was a latent/sleeping program inside each RSI that can be activated instead of having agents individually take over. If they are bots, The New Matrix is wasting TONS of computing power having them interact with human batteries.
The fight choreography was terrible compared to the original trilogy
Disney movies have better fight choreography, and I’m not even talking about their marvel shit either.
@Luis Suazo pfft yeah but it's better than this movie at least
Compared to ANYTHING OUTSIDE THE MATRIX
Looking back at the film there is handful of scenes that stand out in a positive light imo, the one thing that brings all these scenes together is that they say something new about the analogy of the matrix. First is the opening escape scene, while it’s largely retread of the first films opening scene it does point to the retelling of history to fit a false narrative within the matrix. Then there’s the scene where everyone is discussing the new matrix game showing how the matrix takes something with a revolutionary message and repackages it into just being another form of entertainment. Most controversially there’s the fight with the Merovingian. Yes it’s poorly choreographed and acts as little more then a detour to the plot but it again adds something the analogy of the matrix, a brief exploration of reactionary politics. A collective of people who used to be in power wanting to be put back in power constantly talking about some great past. While NEO wants to further destroy the matrix, Merovingian wants to bring the matrix back to its “pure” state where he was in power. Outside of that the film doesn’t have a lot to add to the conversation and that leads to the story quickly becoming stale intellectually speaking.
How to critique something designed to fail? It's perfect. It was meant to burn the franchise down to the ground because it's OVER. It was over for many years, and the idea that it would be rebooted with or without cooperation from the original writer is the main point; that is the point. I love this movie for all its flaws because I feel the flaws are the point. The angst of it resonates with me. It's an act of defiance. I wouldn't change a thing.
The idea of making Neo happy so he doesn't have any reason to even want to leave The Matrix could've played out really well.
Perhaps Neo being happy kept the Matrix stable because he wanted this life and so that blends into reinforcing how strong the security of the Matrix was and the Red Pills try to kill him or wake him (or both? 2 different factions?) to weaken that security.
LOOK PEOPLE, WE'RE DOING META COMMENTARY SO IT'S OKAY THIS MOVIE SUCKS
- Warner Bros, 2022
More like "look warner bros, I made the movie bad, now leave me the fuck alone you've ruined my life enough as it is"
Edit: the op originally said "lana wachowski" not warner bros, so
You *know* a focus group actually came with that idea at Warner.
@@Jose-se9pu "millenials like pseudo-antibusiness commentary"
Well done! You quite clearly showed us why it failed and with good reason too.
Very good analysis. 👍Very different from other channels.
But i still like the movie. Atleast the first half before Neo getting rescued. Things went downstream after that. 😕
I love how people are delusional enough to say this was a success.
I'm sure lots of people had personal successes thanks to this film (production crew, assistants, etc). And that's what makes me smile. Now, 2 weeks after watching it. I've reached the 'acceptance' stage.
@@phattjohnson
Many voices in the review community argued that it should've never been made in the first place - a position I can totally understand and maybe even share.
However, if it was absolutely *bound* to be made, then I think this meta angle was quite possibly the only appropriate one to take. You can fairly argue that the idea of the film being a satirical comment on itself is a convenient deflection of criticism (like a self-deprecating comedian building a routine around the premise of how unfunny his own jokes are), but that would be down to the execution, I suppose. Was that done with subtlety and intelligence or was it ham-handed and forced?
Speaking of ham-handed, that's how the film's attempt to shove blue hair down the audiences throat as the new Trinity for the planed sequels felt.
For we must all appear before “the judgment seat of Christ, so that each of us may receive what is due us for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad.” (2 Corinthians 5:10)
We will be judged for every deed we do whether is be good or bad. This isn’t something to worry about even if our bad deeds out weigh our good. Because none are good before God, all have sinned against Him and cursed His name, but He in His tender loving mercy hath given us His Son as our ransom. When Jesus was dying all of Gods wrath and judgement was poured out onto Him even though He was sinless. He was sacrificed and tortured on our behalf though we are sinful and carnal. Christ payed our sin debt with His perfect sinless blood so we may escape judgment and have everlasting life. But this great gift is only for those who accept it and accept Him ❤️
@@phattjohnson Because they got paid already instead of with royalties. If it was through royalties, they'd be crying because they'd still be in debt.
@@phattjohnson But they lost money... Budget was 190 mil and Box office about 160 mil. That's a whole 30 mil lost, they weeren't successful at all.
The Matrix 4 was awesome. I loved the part where they showed us flashbacks to all the best parts of the original Matrix. It definitely didn’t make me wish I was paying to see that movie instead.
It was especially cool to see a flashback to that original film every minute and a half. If only those flash backs could have been even more frequent because waiting a minute and a half in between them was stressful.
@@lildon6534 Until you realize that he mentioned more the flashbacks of the OG movies than the movie itself
Meta saw itself in the mirror, took the red pill, and no longer knows what to call itself anymore.
The movie was so self-aware that I was asking myself whether it wants me to hate it.
Hopefully this stupid movie didn't spoiled the OG for younger people.
@@engineerdeluxe I hope so, last time I asked a friend whether he has seen Starwars, he told me that he tried watching the latest trilogy 🤦♂️ stop the reboots for gods sake....
Perfectly good missed opportunity, thanks for this.