I watched The Matrix Resurrections at home and I gave up halfway through, still haven’t finished it. There were some cool scenes in the early part of the movie that were almost breaking the fourth wall and seemed to pick up the spirit of the introductory scenes in The Matrix (I wish those cyberpunk/dystopian elements were expanded in the original), but Resurrections quickly started to go down the drain after that.
Resurrections is an excellent protest movie, in the punk vein.
It was protesting exactly the type of exploitation that Warner brothers did with the matrix.
The film is akin to a new lassie film. Only the film ends with lassie being staked out in the sun and flayed alive by a teenage sociopath, whimpering the entire time. It’s a massive fuck you, intended to kill the franchise. There was just enough plausible deniability to get away, and avoid being sued for it.
To me, it suffered the same issue that all reboots have (Jurassic World, Rise of Skywalkwer, etc.). They don’t attempt a new plot and instead try to rehash the original plot but “bigger”, this makes it boring really quick as you know what’s going on, so instead they rely on nostalgia bait or jump tactics to try to keep you engaged.
I watched it. The plot really only served as an extended middle finger to Warner Bros. After I finished it, I just thought, what a waste. It had promise, but it didn’t try anything new or expand the world in any way.
They are developing a new matrix movie?
I watched The Matrix Resurrections at home and I gave up halfway through, still haven’t finished it. There were some cool scenes in the early part of the movie that were almost breaking the fourth wall and seemed to pick up the spirit of the introductory scenes in The Matrix (I wish those cyberpunk/dystopian elements were expanded in the original), but Resurrections quickly started to go down the drain after that.
Resurrections is an excellent protest movie, in the punk vein.
It was protesting exactly the type of exploitation that Warner brothers did with the matrix.
The film is akin to a new lassie film. Only the film ends with lassie being staked out in the sun and flayed alive by a teenage sociopath, whimpering the entire time. It’s a massive fuck you, intended to kill the franchise. There was just enough plausible deniability to get away, and avoid being sued for it.
To me, it suffered the same issue that all reboots have (Jurassic World, Rise of Skywalkwer, etc.). They don’t attempt a new plot and instead try to rehash the original plot but “bigger”, this makes it boring really quick as you know what’s going on, so instead they rely on nostalgia bait or jump tactics to try to keep you engaged.
I watched it. The plot really only served as an extended middle finger to Warner Bros. After I finished it, I just thought, what a waste. It had promise, but it didn’t try anything new or expand the world in any way.