The Matrix (the first one) is a great film: inventive, truly one of the best twists in cinema (in the first act!) that re-invented the action film genre. Resurrections aims to revisit the idea and ultimately it fails.
The film is so reverential that it is almost a museum piece - it it like a Comicon whistlestop tour of every Matrix trope we can remember. We get it. But the film itself has been sacrificed on the altar of nostalgia so what we get it an introspective three act yarn that muddles along at it's own pace trying to hit plot points to keep someone happy (not sure who).
The biggest problem with this film is the writing. They should have just said goodbye to Neo and Trinity and gone full bore new matrix and gone a bit crazy, done something different and tried to surprise us. The new cast look like a lot of fun and could have done something new that would have been in the spirit of the original.
All in all: it's a bit rubbish.
The film is so reverential that it is almost a museum piece - it it like a Comicon whistlestop tour of every Matrix trope we can remember. We get it. But the film itself has been sacrificed on the altar of nostalgia so what we get it an introspective three act yarn that muddles along at it's own pace trying to hit plot points to keep someone happy (not sure who).
The biggest problem with this film is the writing. They should have just said goodbye to Neo and Trinity and gone full bore new matrix and gone a bit crazy, done something different and tried to surprise us. The new cast look like a lot of fun and could have done something new that would have been in the spirit of the original.
All in all: it's a bit rubbish.
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