Review of The Matrix Resurrections (2021) by Mrpajamas — 23 Dec 2021

I had to see the new Matrix because it's just the Matrix. I liked the trailers quite a bit. Unfortunately, I take it I was fooled and just fell into some sort of illusion that it could be good. I'm totally disappointed.

When the movie started, for the first 10 minutes or so I was like yeah, this is it. I liked it. It was great. But it didn't take long for it to get bad. Very bad. There was a point where I thought, they've already messed this up and they don't have a chance to fix it.

Unfortunately, that feeling stayed with me for the rest of the movie. After about 15 minutes, I was not entertained, not interested in the film, and found the story to be bad. I like the series a lot and consider the trilogy to be something amazing and yes, I like Reloaded and Revolutions a lot too, but this, this really didn't.

I didn't like the new The Matrix Resurrections perhaps at all. The only thing that appealed to me here and there was the action because it had good music. After that, though, it immediately disappointed me because it had weird slow-motion stuttering effects in places that movies like that used in the 2000s.

Whether this was supposed to be some kind of nostalgia here or something that was supposed to look good, I don't know. The action from the original Matrix, which came out in 1999, seemed much better to me at the same time because it didn't have these slow motion moments as far as I know.

Where I have to nitpick is Neo himself. I think he's pretty much useless here. His younger self would have kicked his ass. I get that they were trying to capture the fact that he's aged here and that he's not as good as he once was, but for me he was really rubbish and in a way that I thought it was completely, but utterly unnecessary in the finale to make this sequel.

The story is terrible in my opinion and I haven't even mentioned that it tries to somehow connect the previous films and explain some things about them, which usually doesn't work out well and here it turned out I would say downright awful.

The action is often worse than in the previous films because Neo isn't what he used to be. Unfortunately, I don't see anything good about this movie except for a few moments with good music. I don't think this should have happened.

It spoils the franchise unnecessarily. More franchises have had such an unpleasant sequel, like Terminator, Alien, Predator and so on. Now, sadly, I can confirm for myself that this "money machine" and wringing of a well-known brand was also given to the Matrix.

For me, a very bad movie that I recommend avoiding and fans of the franchise should avoid. Overall, it strikes me as a better fan-made movie than a true sequel.