Review of The Matrix Resurrections (2021) by Jaxdagger — 03 Jan 2022

Honestly I will never understand why some directors take their beloved franchises and attempt to ruin what people loved about them to begin with, fans of movies and franchises like this are treated with contempt as if not being accepting of them shoehorning the matrix name and 2 known characters into a film narrative that didn't require them wouldn't offend our senses.

This movie comes across as an attempt to use the franchise for attention or to simply not leave warner bros in control of making the next sequel which is literally brought up in the movie and I can fully believe would be the actual reasoning behind the making of this sequel, the only way this could have worked is if it was broken up into a mini series for TV and all the different plot points taken and extremely expanded upon like with the animatrix which had some great ideas and didn't require neo or trinity and still added alot of lore and thought to the overall world, the cinematoraphy, the soundtrack, the fight scenes, even the majority of the dialogue is just so subpar and I notice the positive reviews focus on this power couple aspect, but that was already established all this does is reasserts that again with a dreary plot and so much fan service it almost offends the senses even to those that love it, many of them comparing spiderman to this as if for some reason they cannot understand that spiderman did not take an unsteady boot to it's franchise and delivered on what fans would have liked to see while still surprising them, the matrix gives the beloved fans of it's franchise nothing they wanted and every surprise is more of question of why? why would you make this? why not create a new movie to explore what you wanted to say because this was just not it at all.