It’s so fecking bad. I hated literally everything about it. It looks like a cheap CW production for a start. Most of the new cast is appalling. It’s lost all of the grimness and grit of the original and changed tone entirely to something almost resembling satire. I thought it would take itself too seriously and be sort of Zak Snyder Justice League bad. Instead it went full Zak Snyder Sucker Punch bad.
They pretty much shit on the entire Matrix franchise. The Wachowksi’s, both of them, should’ve been exiled, like one of their mythical programs, from the production offices after the first film, and let someone else make all the sequels. I guess they had no really actually good ideas or storyboards after the ones they allegedly stole for the original had run out.
This is like being a kid at Christmas and your parents telling you all you were getting were new socks. But ho hum, at least it’s a present. So on Christmas morning you pick up the soft wrapped package and prepare to open your inevitably disappointing gift, only to find it’s not even a pair of shitty socks. It’s just a loaf your dad pinched the night before. A literal steaming pile of shit.
That’s the build up and pay off for Matrix Resurrections.
Programs that are magnets, robots that are birds, strawberries, the Catrix, Smith isn’t Smith but is Smith but doesn’t look like Smith, “bullet time”, architect to analyst, and coming in the next installment - probably called Matrix Repercussions - I’m expecting Tobias Funke as the Analrapist.
Worse than Hawkeye/10
At least its got one thing going for it then, its exactly like the trailer portrayed. I took some convincing after watching that, that it is actually a real film being made and not some fan made satire.