The Matrix Resurrections (2021)

[RINGLEADER]

What an absolute train wreck of a movie. If you can’t create something in the same league as the original don’t even bother. Terrible, disjointed, and terrible.

[Fish]

It was just OK. The agents seem to shoot like stormtroopers, to the point that guns are almost meaningless. 5 guys with submachine guns, taken down by one person running around with a bunch of spin kicks, which felt super dumb. The plot seemed a bit lazy. Felt like they recycled quite a bit. The CGI and environment was really well done. The graphics were a huge improvement. But it didn't feel like it paid off like it should have. The capabilities of the characters/villains seemed to aimlessly wander depending on whatever they needed for the plot. It looked very cool in 2K, but left a lot to be desired...

[ThaVirus]

Originally Posted by Fish

It was just OK. The agents seem to shoot like stormtroopers, to the point that guns are almost meaningless. 5 guys with submachine guns, taken down by one person running around with a bunch of spin kicks, which felt super dumb.

This took me out of it within the first 5 minutes. The first chase scene involved the main character chick miraculously avoiding machine gun fire from SWAT and agents without taking cover. She was legit 20 feet from a couple agents, running away in a straight line, and they missed her. It was ridiculous.

Spoiler!

Also, I'm assuming I missed some important info because how tf did Trinity develop The One powers? And was there a reason NPH was able to freeze/control Neo but not Smith?

I'd probably need to re-watch it but I just don't care enough to do so.

[Fish]

Originally Posted by ThaVirus

This took me out of it within the first 5 minutes. The first chase scene involved the main character chick miraculously avoiding machine gun fire from SWAT and agents without taking cover. She was legit 20 feet from a couple agents, running away in a straight line, and they missed her. It was ridiculous.

Spoiler!

Also, I'm assuming I missed some important info because how tf did Trinity develop The One powers? And was there a reason NPH was able to freeze/control Neo but not Smith?

I'd probably need to re-watch it but I just don't care enough to do so.

Yeah, I get that it's an action movie and you can't expect hyper realism. But come on...

Regarding the spoiler:

Spoiler!

No, you didn't miss anything. I think they just went straight for the "She's powerful too!" angle. Which makes no ****ing sense, and muddles the running storyline of the past films. There definitely seemed to be an obvious effort to bring more female leadership to the story. Which didn't really work. Niobe was a ****.

I really hate how the neutered Neo too. When they showed him training with new Morpheus and he destroyed the dojo, I thought that was pretty cool let's see him wreck some shit. But then he's fighting Smith a short time later, and can't even hold his own in the slightest. Like I said earlier, they seemed to change each characters powers depending on how they needed the plot to progress at that moment. Felt cheap and lazy.

Of course, that's ignoring the fact that if they're in a digital environment that the machines control, then the machines would have to program themselves to miss shots.

[Pogue]

Originally Posted by Fish

Yeah, I get that it's an action movie and you can't expect hyper realism. But come on...

Regarding the spoiler:

Spoiler!

No, you didn't miss anything. I think they just went straight for the "She's powerful too!" angle. Which makes no ****ing sense, and muddles the running storyline of the past films. There definitely seemed to be an obvious effort to bring more female leadership to the story. Which didn't really work. Niobe was a ****.
I really hate how the neutered Neo too. When they showed him training with new Morpheus and he destroyed the dojo, I thought that was pretty cool let's see him wreck some shit. But then he's fighting Smith a short time later, and can't even hold his own in the slightest. Like I said earlier, they seemed to change each characters powers depending on how they needed the plot to progress at that moment. Felt cheap and lazy.

Of course, that's ignoring the fact that if they're in a digital environment that the machines control, then the machines would have to program themselves to miss shots.

Regarding the spoilers:

Spoiler!

The use of sonic waves was overdone. Neo can wreck a dojo but he can’t take off to fly? Made no sense to me and seemed to me that Agent Smith was the most powerful person in this movie. Your telling me the Analyst could slow down time and Neo couldn’t function, while Agent Smith could? But again, I wouldn’t over analyze this movie. Clearly an F U you anyone that loved the first movie.

[Kman34]

That was a mess...

[notorious]

Have about an hour left, and I’m about to fall asleep like I did in the middle of Reloaded.

Just can’t keep my internet. I will finish it, just not interested enough to do it in one sitting.

[BWillie]

I thought it was about as good as Reloaded. 7.5 out of 10. Glad they made it.

[KC_Connection]

It was fine. Certainly much better than I expected and a hell of a lot better than how they ended the original trilogy (which was an absolute mess of a movie). All things considered, a pretty decent attempt to reboot a completely dead series with some expected nostalgia elements although it would have been nice to have brought back Hugo Weaving as Smith instead of another guy trying to replicate that performance.

No matter how many of these they make though (and it definitely appears they hope to make more), I imagine the only definitive great movie will always remain the original.

[Pogue]

Started off promising but lost me after 20-30 minutes realizing this wasn’t a movie to continue the saga.

Spoiler!

I really thought the beginning was promising, looked like we were going to get a look at what the architect was explaining to neo there’s been several versions of him already. I was expecting to see a far more advanced matrix, but not the way the analyst/movie did. So it was odd to see a matrix designed around more feelings and emotion to generate more power from humans considering they threaten the matrix.

The matrix itself is far more interesting than the Zion/To Lo storyline, it’s what killed the third movie. This is where the movie lost me, once it pivoted to reality with Neo escaping his pod by friendly machines, to another Zion like location that was also built by machines. This presents all kinds of issues and plot holes. Machines (Wokies call them synthians) were working with Humans, making strawberries? Assisting in rescues? Dumb. They could be hacked etc threatening everyone in to lo.

Lastly, making trinity the one or similar to neo, destroyed the movie imo and ruined the franchise. Out of nowhere she possesses the same skills as neo? Come on.

To me the movie was a parody of legacy sequels, it was the director mocking moviegoers, telling them to eat this excrement sandwich. Really surprised Keanu signed on to this garbage. 4/10.

[RINGLEADER]

Originally Posted by Pogue

Started off promising but lost me after 20-30 minutes realizing this wasn’t a movie to continue the saga.

Spoiler!

I really thought the beginning was promising, looked like we were going to get a look at what the architect was explaining to neo there’s been several versions of him already. I was expecting to see a far more advanced matrix, but not the way the analyst/movie did. So it was odd to see a matrix designed around more feelings and emotion to generate more power from humans considering they threaten the matrix.

The matrix itself is far more interesting than the Zion/To Lo storyline, it’s what killed the third movie. This is where the movie lost me, once it pivoted to reality with Neo escaping his pod by friendly machines, to another Zion like location that was also built by machines. This presents all kinds of issues and plot holes. Machines (Wokies call them synthians) were working with Humans, making strawberries? Assisting in rescues? Dumb. They could be hacked etc threatening everyone in to lo.

Lastly, making trinity the one or similar to neo, destroyed the movie imo and ruined the franchise. Out of nowhere she possesses the same skills as neo? Come on.

To me the movie was a parody of legacy sequels, it was the director mocking moviegoers, telling them to eat this excrement sandwich. Really surprised Keanu signed on to this garbage. 4/10.

Agree with this post 100%. The initial angle they took was original and could have gone to some interesting places but it really is a parody of the earlier movies.

[listopencil]

Started off kind of OK, but flawed. Then the flaws spread like ice breaking on a frozen lake and sunk the movie. I got about halfway through and turned it off.

[notorious]

Heh, I did chuckled at some of the jokes it poked at the original trilogy.

The guy playing agent Smith is a decent actor, I liked him in Manhunt, but he just couldn’t match the calm resentment that Hugo Weaving portrayed.

1st movie was unbeatable, 2nd was meh, 3rd was not good, this is meh.

[ThaVirus]

The fan service in this movie wasn't even all that good.. and that's a huge miss because a sequel like this, nearly 20 years later that no one asked for is going to need some legit ass throwbacks.

Spoiler!

Old ass Niobe, OK. Don't give a shit about her. Someone on the ship is the grandchild of someone on the Nebuchadnezzar, cool. Also don't give a shit. The Indian chick who was the child program from the third one. **** you, don't care.

I was waiting the whole movie for Neo to remember how to use his powers and just lay waste. That moment never came, which sucks because that probably would have been pretty memorable. A few months from now I don't think there's a single scene from this movie that I will remember.

[listopencil]

Originally Posted by ThaVirus

The fan service in this movie wasn't even all that good.. and that's a huge miss because a sequel like this, nearly 20 years later that no one asked for is going to need some legit ass throwbacks.

Spoiler!

Old ass Niobe, OK. Don't give a shit about her. Someone on the ship is the grandchild of someone on the Nebuchadnezzar, cool. Also don't give a shit. The Indian chick who was the child program from the third one. **** you, don't care.

I was waiting the whole movie for Neo to remember how to use his powers and just lay waste. That moment never came, which sucks because that probably would have been pretty memorable. A few months from now I don't think there's a single scene from this movie that I will remember.

Sweet. Thanks for letting me know I wasn't wrong for refusing to wait around for that payoff that never happened.