Review of The Matrix Resurrections (2021) by Thewhiteman — 24 Dec 2021
Very poorly constructed. This film is content to leech off the original trilogy and has almost nothing to offer in the way of new ideas. New characters are almost entirely forgettable as they have little chance to make an impact on viewers.
The whole thing is just really up its own ass and goes as far as literally winking at the audience to one of its countless references. There have been a lot of legacy sequels stuffed with fan service lately, but this one really cranks it up a notch.
In the first half of the movie there are quite a few times footage from the original movie appears, they even had Neo watching it himself. It's all too much. But sadly that original footage just highlights how much worse this new movie looks.
Beyond the story the movie just does not have the look of the classic movies. The scenes in the 'real' world do try to capture the look of the original films, but the stuff in the Matrix is bland, neither congruent with the old movies or establishing its own identity.
Even the action scenes are mostly uninspired, at times downright cheap, and never hold up to the standards set by the original trilogy. Ultimately this movie feels like a waste of time, a nearly joyless retread of the classic movies that neither lives up to the quality of the original Matrix trilogy nor has any original ideas of its own.
This review of The Matrix Resurrections (2021) was written by Thewhiteman on 24 Dec 2021.
The Matrix Resurrections has generally received mixed reviews.
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