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I thought I’d be delighted to see Wachowski boldly pick up the threads of The Matrix‘s most maligned sequel and make them something really special, but when the first half of the movie is so weird and brilliant, the more straightforward approach later in the picture feels like a little bit of a let down.
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Wachowski, Hemon, and Mitchell fall into the same trap from 20 years ago, with the movie slowing down to a crawl for a long info dump full of new Matrix-y jargon midway through that only weighs the film down. As much as I wanted to love the sections of the movie that picked up where the story left off in 2003, they’re by far the weakest parts of the film. Unfortunately, Resurrections also tackles the unenviable task of following up, and at times over-explaining, the events of its predecessors, especially Revolutions, which is often described as the trilogy’s most convoluted and alienating installment. This aspect of the movie is every bit as wild as you’d expect from Wachowski, who is clearly having loads of fun with the material that’s half social commentary and half wish fulfillment for those fans who’ve ever wanted to watch Neo and Trinity kick ass one more time. The Matrix Resurrections might be the most self-aware nostalgia play ever put on the big screen, delivering loads of easter eggs and references while at the same time commenting on why audiences have come to love these shallow winks so much. Indeed, the movie’s first hour is its strongest, a mind-bending tumble through what’s real and what isn’t that also reckons with the saga’s legacy in unexpected ways. Despite the movie’s length, Wachowski’s script, which she co-wrote with novelists David Mitchell ( Cloud Atlas) and Aleksandar Hemon ( Nowhere Man), benefits from the film’s brisk pacing, although it’s sometimes too plot-heavy for its own good, especially after it takes a big turn halfway through. The film wastes no time giving us answers to some of its biggest mysteries while also setting up even bigger questions in the first act that pay off in mostly interesting ways. Yet, the rabbit hole goes much deeper than that.
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With the Machines closing in on humanity, it’s up to heroes Bugs (Jessica Henwick) and a new, younger Morpheus (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) to free Neo’s mind before it’s too late. The only problem is that Neo is actually Thomas Anderson, a shell of his former self who’s hooked on the blue pill and can’t remember his past life. This is my roundabout way of saying that it’s really difficult to talk about this movie’s plot without spoiling something…īut here goes: a new generation of runners are on a desperate mission to find Neo (Keanu Reeves), who is somehow back in the simulation despite his death in Revolutions. Sure, you’ve probably read plenty of online fan theories and speculation pieces that sound like they might be right, but I guarantee you that no one has guessed correctly.
But just a day from release, The Matrix Resurrections‘ biggest secrets have been kept. Resurrections has remained surprisingly unspoiled through its months-long marketing campaign, a true rarity in a year that also saw the release of Spider-Man: No Way Home, arguably the leakiest movie in blockbuster history. The result is a sequel that’s as delightfully weird as it is satisfying, especially for those like myself who love Reloaded and Revolutions as much as the original. But ambitious is what a Matrix movie should be, and Wachowski takes incredibly big swings over the course of the film’s two and a half hour runtime. If Lana Wachowski’s love letter to Neo, Trinity, and Morpheus is guilty of anything, it’s that at times it is too ambitious for its own good and can’t quite stick the landing in the third act. Now, almost 20 years after the end of the original trilogy, how do we describe The Matrix R esurrections, a legacy sequel that’s at once a nostalgic look back at 1999 as well as a standalone continuation of Revolutions? Simply put: this is a love story, within an action movie, within a meta exploration of our obsession with nostalgia. Meanwhile, The Matrix Revolutions could best be described as a manga and anime-inspired mecha horror movie, an absolutely twisted conclusion to the story that feels like the Wachowskis’ answer to the equally controversial The End of Evangelion. But The Matrix sequels weren’t just more of the same: The Matrix Reloaded is in many ways a superhero fantasy with the kind of CG spectacle we take for granted in the Marvel age. We remember the original as a revolutionary cyberpunk action film that introduced audiences to “bullet time” and the “wire fu” action sequences of the East.
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