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

It's pretty baffling how a movie can be this bad across the board. From the cringey dialogue, poor acting, to overly long non-sensical expositions, boring action, boring characters, lack of music, lack of originality, lack of story and ending with a terrible cover of the original Rage Against the Machine song. Interesting parts were underdeveloped and everything else non-interesting was overly developed. Scenes and dialogue from the first film were quite literally reused here. It reminded me of the Boondock Saints sequel which was almost literally a copy of the first.

What's most baffling was the early meta-commentary on bad sequels and studio pressure. Was the film purposefully being meta about how bad it was or did they think this was actually a different kind of sequel? In the first film you had snippets of Baudrillard's reference to Simulacra and Simulation. The Matrix Resurrections feels like a photocopy on it's fourth scan of the original; best avoided all together and removed from the first trilogy.