THE MATRIX RESURRECTIONS - Movie Review
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i liked Matrix 3 better than 2. the part where Neo goes to robot city to make a deal with the robots. that part is sci-fi af
Indeed !
M. Resurrections, has very complex ideas:
1 simulation with a simulation.
2 Machines Civil War
3 (derived from 2) Machines taking the Human's side. En masse !
4 Neo remains the ONE powerful Neo and not a clueless, weak and pitiful Luke Skywalker ...
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if we follow all reviews (mostly negative) we will only read the telephone book on-line, and watch paint dry.
edit: and of course see even more: "why should not watch anything" reviews ...
The mechs fighting sentinels is sci fi AF
LANA: "It wasn't plan or orchestrated in anyway. " That's it!
The original script writer were dead after the first Matrix. And this movie is Garbage
What you wrote is just nonsense. “That part is sci-do af?” Because “robots?” Lol
@@StopFear it showed how Neo could sense the machines when he was blind i assume because he is the one. that whole scene is awesome. you should check out the movie it’s better than people say
The action scenes felt so tasteless, it was like they were there just to be there. I really struggled watching the last 30-40 minutes of the movie. Feels like Lana knew the movie would be bad so she made it into a meta commentary to tell everyone "I told you it was gonna be bad!".
I don’t think you’re wrong. That’s what’s kind of fascinating about it. Even the ending is like “isn’t all of this a little ridiculous?”
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No, a lot of this movie is mediocre and disappointing by design.
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The first matrix takes me back to my childhood such a masterpiece of cinema.
It's a timeless film and so astute about the dangers of modern technology.
@@KajiCarson yep it sure is on the last part of your comment the same can be said about the terminator movies.
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They re-released to theaters about 2-3 weeks ago, I’ve never seen it in theaters (I was 6) when it came out. I loved it 30x more on the big screen. It’s still fantastic
The costumes in the original matrix were so badass too. And the fighth scenes were nothinng else but revolutionary
It was bad. Really bad. My friend, who watched it with me, summed up my thoughts on the action sequences pretty well, saying “It was like Lana Wachowski was trying to emulate Zack Snyder trying to do a Wachowski movie.”
Well said
oh christ
Yes, a woke zak snyder
@@Annayasha woke Zak Snyder lol
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Haven’t watched it for myself, but CANNOT WAIT to come back here and watch your video afterwards😂
Completely agree with your take on this film. It felt as if at times like a cheesy "best of" episode from an eighties sitcom, with a lot of scenes put on screen to remind us of how great it was. I did like the analyst played by Neil Patrick Harris, who seemed to be self-aware enough that he was in a pretty bad movie. Imagine had they made the picture about "Tom" as the developer of the Matrix game and an actual existential crisis he might have gone through. There's the makings of a really wonderful story here, but that one would never have been made today. Retread is king.
I like your take but would only add that NPH was written as a mustache twirling villain that caused me to smh .. a lot. :)
...Honestly, this is the one of the best reviews of the film I've seen. You're super on point with the critique of their filmaking, editing, shooting style and ability to deliver a cohesive and compelling story. I'll be following your channel :)
Check out red letter media’s review I felt they were really on point
I haven’t felt this indifferent with a film in some time. Great review, like always.
same here.
I think Lana's frustrations were pretty explicit through the Merovingian's dialog lol
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It was actually heartbreaking to see Neo and Trinity back on screen together only to be in a mockery of a film. Once I had heard the term "sheeple" used in the film I realized this movie truly was a mockery. It made me physically uncomfortable for 2hrs and 28 mins. Also the rainbow colored sky bits and sexist diologue were quite preachy.
You didn't understand this movie.
I think we could all use a little rainbow sky in our lives, remind us of beauty and hope.
@@kurtrivero368 Please do educate me then..help me read between the lies..I mean lines..
@@Demention94 "read between the lies" meaning what?
Preachy movies are so cringe
Matrix 4 shouldve been a game. The Matrix to many represents cutting edge sci-fi. The first movie actually tried to be an interactive multiple choice media before that concept even existed. It presented the viewers with questions like "Would u take the red pill?" and questioned our reality while also acknowledging that it is a Sci-Fi. The world of Matrix is supposed to be an almost identical replication of the "ideal" reality but with some glitches like the deja-vus which make it slightly unhinged and dreamlike even... A video game is the perfect evolution for such a franchise to explore more of these concepts. And the short demo they put out with UE5 actually proved to be muuuch more effective than the movie.
Agreed they should have made "The matrix online 2.0" with the graphics and gameplay today they could have made an amazing game instead of a crappy b movie
I'm glad I found this channel. I've scrolled through your previous movie reviews, and I'm excited to see what you have to say about so many of my favorite movies!
The first video of hers that I found was the review to The Many Saints of Newark. I was like, are you in my head right now? lol
It was Garbo. They should of made a matrix movie based on the animated series and how humans mistreated ai and robots and what lead to the first Matrix we all saw instead of trying to hold on to something that should of stayed in the Early 2000s the agents and new actors looked like actors pulled out of a dollar tree movie.
what you mean Blade Runner? Or Ghost In The Shell? Or Short Circuit? Or Chappie? Or Robocop?
You mean make a real movie? That would require respecting the world you created.
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Matrix the prequel would have been an awesome idea. With new cast too but Same aesthetic
I’ve watched a few reviews of this movie after having watched it-trying to make sense of my feelings-I found your review extremely thoughtful and on-point. Great job.
You really feel Neo is the one Expresses herself through? I feel the new story has started and would like for it to have the chance to culminate completely.
Omg, I forgot I was subscribed to your channel. I was looking for a matrix resurrection review. I was a fan of your channel for years and just got lost in the CZcams warphole. Looks like I have some catching up to do :)
Hi, just came across to your channel. We're from the same generation and your reviews resonate indeed. That's why I'm somewhat confident to say that some of your reviews about the Matrix Resurrections might have changed after your initial review. It's a movie that is going to age really well in my opinion. I wrote this long review to suggest that it would be a good concept of yours to talk about movies that age well vs. not. It would also be insightful to see your 2nd opinion about this particular movie after watching it multiple times. I watched it 3 times already and it gets better every time. Anyways, thank you for the channel. It is good to listen as I prepare and eat meal or something. Best,
Love your reviews. So much substance, and knowledge. Have you considered a podcast?
Other than Space Jam 2 and "Music" - this was sincerely the worst movie I have seen all year
Love your reviews and the work that you do. Please keep it coming and more frequently!
What a great opportunity to create something truly wonderful with an interesting plot and mind-bending premise. And how sad to see them throw it all away by criticizing the original storyline with frivolous explanations for what the world became and then cramming an ending in that felt completely rushed, unsatisfying & an insult to the original trilogy. Oh well.
I actually surprisingly enjoyed it lol!
Sure, it's not even in the same category of that first film -which is an iconic part of cinema history-
and it doesn't have the over the top energy of the second....
but it's definitely much better than that depressing finale!
Your points were pretty spot on though - most of the fight scenes were tepid and had absolutely none of the excitement of any of the original films - clearly due to the absence of The Woo Ping team - and some of it did have that " TV movie " feel.
But other parts of it were alot of fun!
I thought this was easily the most self aware and funniest of the series - which was a nice fresh twist on the very dark themes of the earlier films.
Some of the new characters were great - especially Jonathan Groffs new Agent Smith and Jessica Henwicks Bugs.
I thought they brought a new fresh feel to the film and that they gave it some much needed young energy.
A few of the set pieces - such as the train sequence and the finale were really well done and exciting as well.
I guess I just enjoyed being in this world again and seeing Neo and Trinity alive and in action once more.
Keanu Reeves and Carrie Anne Moss have lost none of that chemistry they had 20 years ago and it was just great to see them together again.
I always thought that the original trilogy ended on such a dark heavy downer...
So it's nice that they added this extra chapter to leave us all on a much more uplifting and positive note!
How did they criticize the original storyline?
@@johnrigs6540 but it’s not even the loss of the team. I found the action Lana executed in SENSE8 (which is brilliant by the way) to be so much better than what we get in this new Matrix film.
Which is why I wanna rewatch it. There’s someone compelling about the chaos battles that’s very different and I can’t put my finger on what.
The train fight is nearly incomprehensible, but I really wanna rewatch it haha. Idk.
Good review, I agree with a lot of it. My problem was with Lana beating me over the head with her existential crisis through the dialogue over and over again. I felt like she was yelling the lines at me instead of just letting the characters speak for themselves. The meta element was dumb but also interesting, and I thought during the first third of the film, "oh, they're doing something different here, cool", but it ended up going nowhere and in the end just felt like a tantrum berating the audience for god knows what. Completely agree with the action, it was laughably bad, there was actually a stage where I thought the action scenes were deliberately being shot/edited poorly, that or her sibling was the brains behind that element in the previous films. Overall, total dumpster fire and could have been so much more.
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I thought the action was good and the story cleverly done throughout.
@@anthonymartensen3164 i am on love i guess... agree with everything
So i dont know his name, but the stunt choreographer of the original 3 is a Hong Kong film maker who was not involved - and yes, it shows. Not in the same caliber by any measure
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Wow such an underrated reviewer! So glad I found this channel!
I appreciated Resurrections significantly more upon a rewatch. I think it's great.
What are some other films that you recommend exploring Baudrillard's philosophy?
It's always nice to watch a review when the reviewer has intelligence and hasn't got anything to gain from reviewing or not! Thanks for this...or maybe I just agree so that makes me like this more??? LOL
The Chateau fight against Merovingian's men and the freeway chase are the two scenes I go back to most in reloaded.
I have not seen this film, could be a pontentially fun intoxicated watch. Your point discussing the crituque of nostalgia is something that's seems to be a reoccuring topic, I love seeing it taken apart. I think it gets tackled in Twin Peaks: The Return in a way that is masterful. I would love to see you talk about it in depth. Great discussion/review!!!
I've been watching your reviews for a month now and they're great. Great taste in movies. I'd love to know what you think of matrix resurrection after a second viewing.
The actions scene in this movie were hot Garbo. They were downgraded as Mere transition scenes.
It's the Matrix , at least do your actions scene well.
It was a badass movie 💯👍
What's so bad about the ass?
@Brandon Knight No, it's a bad ass.
It really was a bad, ass, movie.
Not to beat a dead horse but it was a bad, ass of a movie.
So why do u think the new matrix movie suck .
I still appreciated the themes from the perspective of coming to terms with identity moreso than the love aspect. I also just thought that the movie was more of a critique of Warner bros. The way Deus Machina (the office) and the Boss were subsidiaries of Warner bros makes a very on the nose metaphor in parts that I thought to go nowhere otherwise. I’m also an English fellow tho… so to say I read into things would be so obvious, that I’d take it as a lazy pun.
Have you considered turning your works into podcasts or just plain audio formats? I love listening to your reviews at work, and sometimes it arbitrarily kills my battery when my phone is still on inside my pocket.
That being said, your shit’s solid as usual.
*HA HA HA HA!* Your Keanu Reeves impression at 5:49 was unexpected & shockingly *spot-on.* ✅
"It felt like reviving a corpse" this movie was actually about lana dealing with the grief of losing her mother
Funny enough, the Matrix Awakens (the Unreal Engine 5 demo) is technically much more impressive than the Matrix Resurrections considering all the filmmaking perspectives. Yet I find this film is brutally cheesy and fun at times. Take it what you will but I had fun with all meta deconstruction bits. It's just B-Movie level kind of fun so I had a good laugh.
I laughed so hard the entire movie on how bad it was. What pure crap.
Pretty much my take away also.
What your opinion about Cilian Murphy?
Reloaded and Revolutions are amazing. Resurrections is a masterpiece.
Watched it last night and to say that i was disappointed is an understatement. It's just nostalgia bait, it kept on saying "Oh guys remember when that happened in the trilogy, we remember". There were some high concept ideas which it failed in achieving to the fullest. The idea sounds good on paper but terrible in execution. Trying too hard to ride on the coattails of the original trilogy. It gets meta to point of being genuinely annoying.
I agree. The movie was really bad. Everything was sub par. The acting, the action, the visuals. It felt like a TV series based on the Matrix.
I liked this movie. I respect the fact that lana wachowski used it to cope with the loss of her parents. Trinity and Neo coming back to life and having a good ending is something Lana must've have yearned for with her own parents, but could not have.
Would love to hear your thoughts on last night in soho! Interesting critique on the dangers of nostalgia, ultimately doesn’t come together but still very fun film
Haven’t seen it yet but you’re right at the end about the scale and stuff. One of my favorite parts were the martial arts and for that to be mostly missing is just strange. In retrospect a lot of what made the movie so strong was Laurence phish burns hugho weaving and a lot of the cast. The hero’s journey, fantastical martial arts mixed with gun action, some solid characters, decent antagonists, a few actors to deliver lines perfectly. Honestly if they just gave me half decent martial arts sequences I would like it regardless of the message. I don’t like green screen powers too much.
I ended up enjoying it somewhat despite it being kind of terrible at times.
It is simple, when I watch the first movie I feel smarter. When I watched the last one I felt dumber.
Theory - part of the reason Ressurections was made was so WB can keep the rights for another X amount of years. The whole meta part of the plot seems to focus on a lot of different things depending how its looked at. More thought went into that then the haters been giving credit to imo
thats how i am with the other 2 sequels, i haven't seen this one yet
parts of them i hate, parts of them i love. So it sounds like a slightly better version of Reloaded is the vibe im getting.
@Brandon Knight I said I didn’t see it yet I said that’s around the vibe I got from her but as of last not I seen it and ya it sucked
Can you adjust your audio levels a bit? You peak literally every time there’s a cut on the video and once I noticed I couldn’t ignore it.
Great commentary as always.
The AniMatrix was an animated follow-up in the matrix series no one talks about, had some neat shorts but i always remember one song from it "who am I?"
Its nice to find a movie reviewer that doesn't have some sort of agenda which is rare nowadays for some reason.
If you have to insert your agenda into a movie review you got some self analysis to do lol
This might be the best review IVE seen thus far.. So many points made and insights. Eventhough I personally loved it i soaked in some great pts made
The Wachowski's greatest film is Speed Racer. The most perfect live action adaptation of an anime/manga . Even more than a love letter, it IS Speed Racer.
Agreed! Bring on the 4K disc.
I love the original Matrix trilogy. Referencing it a hundred times and criticizing it made it boring. The action was strange. The wachowskis have done Sense 8 which had way better action than this movie which is confounding. This movie should be forgotten.
I admire the directness and clarity of your critique.
It would appear that Trinity and Neo are now collectively 'The One,' perhaps mirroring Lana's own transition, as some muse, but something is still missing. We can't see it, yet, but it's there, like a splinter in our minds. Reloaded and Revolutions showed us entirely new layers to the larger world that was The Matrix (original). Clearly, Resurrections was designed to do the same, but what if the entire film was not as it appeared? Might Lana have placed us all in a Matrix within a Matrix in Resurrections, to dream Neo's dream, ending as it began, like a dream? Because it was. Perhaps it's not that "Tom" created the Matrix films and a popular video game called The Matrix, as Resurrections wants to show us - it's that his newly revealed "real life" is a dream program still running within the Architect's "measure of control," and overseen by the Analyst, who very well might be the Architect himself playing the role of Tom's analyst within the Modal. This would mean Trinity is still dead, and Tiffany/Trinity is nothing but a "resurrected" NPC within the Modal, giving Neo purpose, but an empty one. Perhaps the Machines are testing out various Modals to see which version could never be escaped by anyone, including Neo, with the Architect still attempting to create the perfect Matrix overall, as it were. The line in Resurrections where Neo says, "I've had dreams that weren't just dreams," as well as what the Analyst tells him about his current "reality" are strong clues.
This would explain the strangely disjointed, campy, dream-like theme to Resurrections itself. The entire film is not a prequel, but a computer-generated dream (that we each experienced) designed to expose the Anomaly's weaknesses so that all future "One's" would never expose the Machines own weaknesses, as Neo did. The Machine's knowing Trinity was a strong factor in Neo's power, would of course seemingly "resurrect" her to test Neo's abilities, hence the film's name. The Machines would be in need of an answer as to how Neo manifested in power to the point he did, if only to prevent another Anomaly from ever challenging the Machines to the extent he did. I heard there won't be a sequel, but if there were, we may find out the crushing reality that the Matrix is still a dark, cyberpunk world, where Morpheus and the Oracle still exist and are still trying to find Neo, as Neo slumbers somewhere deep within the Machine world being unwittingly experimented on by the Architect. Indeed, this sounds exactly like the thinking of a machine to me.
Love it! I super appreciate that you didn’t really like the movie but gave it a fair review. Thank you!
“Resurrections” is a watchable film however I would not recommend it to anyone. Even die hard Matrix fans are not going to be able to look at it through rose colored glasses. It’s a disappointment on so many levels, mainly because it undoes the events of the previous films and essentially reboots the story setting it up for a second trilogy of films which I pray to god they don’t make.
Keanu Reeves is John Wick. The Neo ship sailed almost a decade ago.
Most well thought out and articulate review I've watched on here of this movie. Thank you. My final thought after watching you is why couldn't Lana make her mark in the ways you describe AND a decent movie? It's not a zero sum game.
Terrific review; you are a genius - an artist at this =)
"Montage" is such an apt descriptor. There was such a sense of abruptness with this movie's movement.
Even the action was satirical but yet done right and i was laughing the whole way : D
very enjoyable take and i agree completely with you. Would be interested to hear your extended commentary if you indeed see it again. I just saw it today for the 2nd time and can say that on this second viewing i ended up caring (just a little) more about the plot landmarks that on the first time i wasn't emotionally invested on, mainly because the movie itself spends a lot of time on the 1st third of the movie shitting on whatever would follow next. I felt that for what they wanted to do (a critique on standard narrative that adheres to its methods) works or at least follows that line.
Still it's too convenient and feels cheap to have the main conflict of the movie be a meta-character (the new anderson) presenting himself as conflict itself, but since the movie is also at the same time a commentary on the conflictive nature of today's concept of existence and the "inherent" neccesity of conflict in narrative... i will let it pass. Subscribed to your channel.
Wow that microphone picks up ur voice perfect. I need to throw mine in the trash 🤔.
Great content as always! You're so astute I wish you had a wider audience.
It was awful. The first hour had so much promise and then it does EVERYTHING it criticized itself for. Not to mention it's all a shitshow presentation-wise. Shaky incoherent action with new underdeveloped characters in a new underdeveloped world that doesn't make any sense canonically. It was miserable to see. Also agent Smith was embarrassing. Did everyone just wear whatever they drove in with? Him and Neil Patrick Harris looked like it was some Saturday afternoon. And his impression of agent Smith and the rushed characterization and lack of motivation, oh my god I cringed.
the first hour did nothing
Awesome review - thank you.👌 TBH once I'd experienced the colossal let down of Reloaded, I decided this story began and ended with the original (which I also reviewed recently). Doesn't sound like this film is likely to change that.😒 I also thought it was strange that this 'Neo' and John Wick are, pretty much, visually indistinguishable.😐 Makes it harder to identify with this being The Matrix character, don't you think?🤔 All the best, Simon.🙂
I almost walked out of the movie theatre
3:11 Both Resurrections and Space Jam which have the "Alice in Wonderland" theme is most-likely used for Project Monarch programming.
I saw the 2021 remake of "Nightmare Alley" during the Christmas season, and it also "felt like a TV movie", which hints of Agatha Christie tropes thrown in. Though it was ok to watch.
I felt that the moment more symbolic of Lana's existential crisis is in the theatre, when scenes of the original Matrix are projected on a gigantic wall, dwarving the characters. It reminded me of "The Aviator" and the scenes of Howard Hughes holed up in a room, lost and lonely, while scenes of his past successful movies being projected on the wall. It is almost a direct homage and I wouldn't be surprised if it was done intentionally.
original '99 "Matrix", a post-apocalyptic, neo-classic(21stCent) masterpiece..
..then, for the reasons you lament their absence of here in "Resurrections" (lack of memorable spectacle, face dancing, action sequences, and etc seamless FX use), I love their '08 "Speed Racer" to live+animation, 2+3D....one of my very favorite underrated works (to also reply to your other vids on such topics)..
..everything else from them I've axed.
nice take, cool vid, thanks
liked your review, but only suggestion with the editing cuts is to have a soft transition. the hard cuts are very noticeable and distracting, otherwise good ;)
Great review as always - can't beat that original Matrix - so good
I kept asking myself "Why this movie?" during my viewing of the film. It feels so half baked and underrealized. Back in the day I must have watched 'The Matrix Revisited', the documentary about the making of the first movie, dozens of times. One thing that stands out is that the Wachowskis meticulously planned out Every. Single. Shot. Paneling it like you would a comic book. That's one of the things that makes the first film so iconic, imo. In the new film there's none of this. Looking up interviews with Lana, it seemed as if she was more interested in a 'improvisational' approach. Which, in and of itself, is completely fine by me. But when it comes to the Matrix franchise, it feels like anathema.
One scene in the new movie really stuck out to me. When Thomas is talking to his partner/boss, they offhandedly mention that Warner Bros, (yes, they called out Warner Bros) is going to make a sequel The Matrix games with or without Thomas's input. It almost felt like Lana was trying to tell us something.
Q: Why this movie?
A: $$$
Great review touched upon nearly everything I felt towards the movie. It was like listening to one of your favorite vocalist, but when they hit that note they just held into continuously. Just one long, monotonous, low energy, 2hr+ note.
Lana Wachowski was trying to say, "Society mocks itself."
Hey sorta random, but you should check out the movies Primer and Upstream Color from Shane Carruth, both a couple of really interesting scifi movies. I'm really hoping that director gets a shot to make more movies.
So many good ideas. I just felt like it was half-baked. Hard C for this one. Not terrible to me. Just very...blah in execution.
❤️ your overall impression of the 2nd sequel as mould 😆😆
Good unbiased review! Subscribed!
I feel like so many people missed the point of this movie. It is not a sequel to the Matrix but a message to WB. So many scenes represent WB talking to Lana Wachowski. How "Smith" says this project will be done with or without you. How the characters keep referencing how they haven't been given a choice.
Similar to how Lana was essentially put between a rock and a hard place because she would either have to give her characters, "her children" to some soulless money making machine or be forced to make a sequel to a story that had already been properly concluded. A bunch of meetings most likely took place about what was expected to be in the matrix sequel, mirrored by the actual meetings in the movie; after Lana was essentially forced to be a part of it all. However if she was gonna be a part of it, then she was gonna make sure that above all else, her "children" were saved. All the things in the meeting that were discussed they were gonna make in the movie,so that her true message could go unnoticed by the old farts demanding a sequel.
The ending of the film, having both Trinity and Neo being completely overpowered, essentially places any future writer in a hole that is impossible to escape. The ending scene where they talk about rainbows, is saying to WB, create a new world with new characters and lore, and stop trying to resurrect old franchises. It's a subtle and yet not so subtle message, that says yeah a lot of "sheeple" will be swayed by money to revive their old franchises and if becoming one with the soulless machine makes them happy more power to them, but Lana Wachowki ain't one of em.
It's no subtle nor clever, I'm sure most everyone got it. All the criticism is valid, really unnecessary movie just to make money off of nostalgia and also be preachy
I compromised, I ate cheese of the radiator instead
Is that Spike in the top right?
Yep
@@deepfocuslens 👏 great taste in anime.
I shared very similar feelings right after watching it. After sitting on it for a night and putting all the obvious problems aside, I think I kind of loved it. I def give Warner brothers a lot of credit for letting their directors have complete creative control with these huge blockbuster franchises (blade runner, dune, joker) vs something like Disney who fires directors for having creative differences from the templates they’ve created for their ips.
My mouth was agape in shock during the first act lol. It felt like Lana Wachowksi watched all of the Scream movies and thought to herself “Hey I could do that!” The fact that characters utter the words “Matrix 4”, “reboot” and “Warner Bros”, is absolutely embarrassing. I thought it was more cringe inducing than funny.
I enjoyed your review. I really loved the first half of the movie - it had me fully invested. It collapsed in the second half.
I enjoy the sound of your voice and the way you talk
Best review I've seen on this movie, subscribed.
The absolute worst parts of the Resurrections movie was their need to explicitly tell us that the sequel we were currently watching was just a money grab from Warner Bros praying on the viewers. The only explanation of that is not that it's Meta, but that they were patronising us for watching the movie that they made and promoted to us. Kind of insulting. Like you said, It was making Meta commentary while being that exact satire of itself.
Nice review
You are brilliant reviewer! I am a fan of the original Matrix and really liked Reloaded a lot... then I think the Wachowskis had a "story fail" for Revolutions: they just didn't bring it. This sounds like Lana didn't even really try--why would the action be crap 21 years after the original?! It's baffling. But very much a fail for our times, as you point out. In any case, very edifying review!
Oooh, haven't seen the new one yet, but surely going to. The third movie has me hanging and waiting. Felt like being left in mid air feeling this is not the end of matrix movie franchise
The only Matrix Resurrections review that matters
Slightly mixed emotions on Resurrections but decidedly a hard no overall for me. I appreciate that the series stayed in Lana Wachowski's hands, so it feels like an "authentic" continuation of the original vision, and that the script made some BOLD creative decisions, which are very sorely lacking in the film industry as a whole for big franchise action films like this. Unfortunately, I think pretty much all of those decisions were a huge misfire and they really bring down the original trilogy in retrospect, which I didn't even care for that much except for the first film (which I regard as a masterpiece and is forever on my top 10 list). So many things in this movie were just jaw droppingly baffling. The first act scene with the writing team that winks and nods at the camera and literally tells the audience about the Wachowskis' contract with Warner Brothers and how they made this movie for the most cynical reasons probably seemed like a major moment of clever metatextual triumph to the writers, but it felt to me more like a big wet spit in the eye and a middle finger to both the audience and the studio that made the movies. It was a bold announcement that they don't really care, everyone's here for a paycheck, corporate greed and meme culture sucks but we have no choice but to participate in it, and everything about to follow in this movie doesn't even matter because this franchise has devolved into one huge cashgrab shitshow filled with petty, behind the scenes infighting. It's the same feeling I got in the very beginning of The Rise of Skywalker and saw all those Emperor Snoke-but-actually-Palpatine clones in jars, which was obviously intended as a big middle finger to Rian Johnson, and realized that the franchise had become nothing more than a cash grab lightsaber-measuring contest between directors to see who can have more control over the direction of the series.
Well said
Why have such a negative take on it? Why not believe that those involved in the making it set out to make the best film they could? So what if it has metatext?
The fact that the new Matrix film has the word 'resurrections' in the title told me everything I needed to know about this movie without actually having to see it. I mean, it worked so well for the Aliens and Halloween franchises right? 😕
My dad compared Neo to
MAGNETO with how he fights in this film, and it's so depressingly accurate
Neo was like that kid that was spamming one op move in a fighting game.
Not falling for anymore meta references , member berries, and nostalgia bait in my films. And to think I almost restarted my HBO Max subscription for this, but the more reviews about The Matrix Resurrections…I’m glad I thought otherwise. As far as I’m concerned the Matrix universe ended after the first one.
This isn’t the “nostalgia bait” you think it is.
If anything it’s clowning the audiences need for nostalgia which is interesting.
@@iansmart4158 That may be the case, sure. But what bothers me is that The Matrix doesn’t warrant that level of self-referential awareness. In a Marvel film, I can understand, or older franchise like Indiana Jones, Back to the Future, etc. because they’re silly. The Matrix, however, was originally a concept (albeit a serious one) which posed questions of reality vs. simulation, free will and choice vs. fate. Now we have… an in-universe commentary on nostalgia and other meta references? The concept just sounds, overall, very cheap and lazy and I can see why fans are upset about it.
Personally, I don’t really care how well this movie does, or if it fails to meet expectations since The Matrix was a self-contained story which didn’t need unnecessary sequels, even if those same sequels really tried to build on what came before but failed in execution. I don’t have the stomach to sit through 2.5 hours of mediocre storytelling when I know the film can do better.
At first I thought you were wearing pasties in the thumbnail 😂
sic 'Lana began this film as Mr. Anderson and ended it as Trinity'...That's it. It explains everything about this film.
Yes 9:33. Do you think this movie is worth watching by the way?
Like your review. Reloaded: the scenes on the motorway were incredible and compared to the new film, it's taxi Driver. : )
It was so fucking good. People think it's a reboot but it's not. It's a critique of reboots and a revival. It injects it with everything that was great about the first, and fixes all the problems of the past films. It nails the relationship between Neo and Trinity that they never did in the previous trilogy. The set pieces weren't showing off as much, but were bigger and more well shot and directed. I'm shocked that you said there is no atmosphere because I think this is one of the most atmospheric films we've seen recently. The imagery here is the best in any Matrix film. The scenes at the coffee shop with the SWAT team floating, or the bodies falling out of the sky during the chase scene, just the entire third act mostly, the way they improved the look of the real world outside of The Matrix, the rainbowish hue over the city... It's oozing with atmosphere that captures the tone of the original but does it in a contemporary context.
Feels like you’re using the word “atmospheric” wrong. Dune was atmospheric.
@@solarmaru49 Dune was boring as well.
@@solarmaru49 Meh, Dune wasn't really atmospheric compared to Villeneuve's previous work such as Prisoners or Blade Runner 2049.
Great review! I'm pretty much on the same page. Didn't hate it, but far from loved it. It was really missing the WOW factor of the original 3. Seemed to fall short of the finish line by just one step.
My biggest problem with the movie was how neutered Neo was. They pretty much Luke Skywalker'ed him. From "doing his Superman thing" to total simp. I would have loved to see a movie about the machine's civil war. Or the destruction of Zion and emergence of IO. Or why (what, when, where, who...) some machines and humans became allies. Expanding on the robotic love between Neo and Trinity wasn't on my wish list.
I left this movie with a lot of questions. And not existential ones like when I left the first movie.
It was nice that it made sense but maybe the openendedness of the original was where the charm was. I never quite understood 2 and 3, being how deep and thought provoking the first one was. I never felt dumb about it but a little bit let down. I gave up a few years ago trying to figure out the point of 2 snd 3. No amount of 3 hour youtube explanation videos helped me either. As far as I’m concerned the first movie stands alone and above the rest. The animatrix two part prequel thing was pretty good too.
Love the cowboy bebop painting on the left corner there
I didn’t even know it came out already. That’s how much I care bout it. Lmao. I used to be a huge fan of the original trilogy back when it came out. It was a different era. Tech was still in its infancy. It was new and exciting. My family didn’t even have the internet when The Matrix came out. Watching it today is not the same.