Movie Details
| Title: | The Matrix Resurrections | |
| Director: | Lana Wachowski | |
| Year: | 2021 | |
| Genre: | Science Fiction | |
| Times Seen: | 1 | |
| Last Seen: | 12.27.21 |
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| Date Viewed | Venue | Note |
| 12.27.21 | Internet | This Screening is part of event: DVRfest 2021 This one's kinda weird. and I guess it's new enough to contain spoilers. I didn't think it was unforgivably terrible, but I also don't know that it's notably good. For one, we live in an age where sequels and reboots are getting mixed together in all sorts of weird ways. While this is certainly a sequel, it uses a few too many "flashbacks" for my taste. I liked the echoed usage in the Trainspotting sequel but here they use it both for us and in the fiction of the narrative as a video game that Neo created. I don't know how a bunch of old film footage passes as a video game but whatever. I think I wouldn't have minded if they did one or the other but doing both is not needed (especially if you've just watched the trilogy beforehand...). The fight choreography is ok but not incredible. Kudos to Keanu for holding his own with the younger actors but Carrie Ann Moss was probably like "one scorpion kick is all you get," which is understandable. But still... it's just another factor to put this movie firmly in the "ok" category. The first two films tried really hard to present top-tier martial arts fighting scenes augmented with CG and this one is back to relying a bit too much on editing and music. The story... I liked. It didn't answer the big question I was left with at the end of Revolutions, probably because it needed all of its exposition time to explain how Neo and Trinity were still alive. Laurence Fishburne's absence is very notable to me... I guess maybe if they do a 5th one he can come back Cobra Kai style or something but considering the lengths they went to answer some of the other continuity questions, a mere mention and a statue doesn't seem fitting given Morpheus' stance in the original films. And the new characters were good for the most part. I'm not sure how I feel about overt humor in the world of The Matrix... To me, one of the things that set that series apart was its unabashed epic-ness in tone. Sure there were laughs, but never a goofy sidekick or things like that. But again... I think maybe these days all movies have to have all things. So... since I made the mistake of rating the first three in these notes, I guess I have to say that this was like a solid 6.5? I think I liked it more than Revolutions but less than Reloaded. Mostly what I felt with this movie was that it was a reunion for the cast and whatever crew re-joined (the cameo from Chad Stahelski was a nice touch) and like the meta -comment at the beginning of the film hints at, if this was gonna happen no matter what with or without Wachowski input, then it could've been a lot worse). And thus ends Matrix Day. On to day 2! |
