Review of The Matrix Resurrections (2021) by Ylliastergames — 24 Dec 2021

This movie was hilariously awful, but I ain't laughing. As someone who REGULARLY binges the original Matrix trilogy ((much like anything Disney barring the Mandalorian relating to Star Wars (thus far)), it really shows as a sign of the times that a movie literally cannot be made unless it's showing some kinds of things that as a white male, I'm not allowed to talk about on the internet. A good movie, does not need to lean anywhere near as hard on its source material as this one did. Literally every throwback to the original movies, I knew was going to happen before it did. The bit at the end where Trinity is looking at the sky, I was sitting there saying "don't you dare say it, I swear to god, do not say it", and then cursed the movie aloud for the god knows how many'th time for it literally just doing what the old movies did to be relevant to fans. The best way to describe it is that in one of MauLer's videos, he explains that the prequel Star Wars movies are bad, but the reasons they're bad is complicated, whereas the sequel trilogy is bad and it's obvious why. This movie, is the latter, if you took out every reference to the original trilogy of Matrix movies, you'd still have give or take 20 minutes of really awful movie to slog through. There's nothing new here, there's nothing impressive, the one "big" fight scene of the movie was unimpressive, the two or three smaller fight scenes were awfully choreographed considering all the work that was done in the original movies. Returning the Merovingian (I think), had literally no impact on the movie, and only using flashbacks of Hugo Weaving and Laurence Fishburne is some kind of sin, which is only further compounded by completely replacing both of them with other actors. I have never, in my 30 years of watching movies, watched something as self-fellatory as this movie.

Also, the memories of someone being used by a games development company? Where have I heard that plotline before? Oh that's right, ASSASSIN'S CREED IV BLACK FLAG. Worst thing is, I have to watch this awful mess at least 2-3 more times just for a stupid review that even I don't care enough to write or record. Wish me luck folks.