The Matrix Resurrections

Overview

Plagued by strange memories, Neo's life takes an unexpected turn when he finds himself back inside the Matrix.

Rating

10 Reviews

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  JPV852

  5 Mar 4, 2022

  Some interesting elements for sure and I still like the chemistry between Reeves and Moss was great, but everything else was pretty poor, including some of the effects. This is just another entry further proving the first film not only was special, but should've been standalone (and can still be viewed as such, just ignore 2-4). Won't say it was bad but ill-advised. **2.5/5**

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  CinemaSerf

  6 Mar 27, 2022

  I know it must be tempting to get the old cash cow out of the barn for one last miking, but this is just one temptation too far. It's not so much that the story is weak (it is), it's that it all takes far too long for the "Neo" (Keanu Reeves) and "Trinity" (Carrie-Anne Moss) characters to get up and running. Reeves has largely lost his freshness and vivacity and the baddies exude all the menace of a wet lettuce. At best the supporting casting borders on the bizarre - Jonathan Groff and Neil Patrick Harris are both far better sticking to their more familiar genres, and Jessica Henwick's "Bugs" character, though feisty, was just far too flat. The graphics are all old hat, as are the time-shifting themes and action scenes. There is plenty of gun totin', but nothing at all innovative. This was entertaining and escapist stuff first time around in 1999, but at 2½ hours this is slow and repetitive with some seriously wilting dialogue and the real time/their time narrative just bored me. It certainly looks good on a big screen, I fear what little it does have will not work at all on the television, but otherwise - sorry, this is poor.

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  The Movie Mob

  5 Aug 20, 2022

  **Nostalgia is the only thing that will make this mess enjoyable.** Welcoming exciting new characters, introducing new threats and alliances, and resurrecting classic characters seemed to promise the next chapter worth getting our hopes up. With the return of Reeves and Moss, we had even more reason to believe! And the movie was decent... but not what we had hoped. My biggest disappointment was the action sequences. What once raised the bar on choreographed fight sequences fell below its predecessors and landed in the typical shakey cam fighting we see in many lazy action movies today. Neo's force push powers also became a disappointing solution to every dangerous situation. It wasn't horrible, but in its attempt to be meta and self-aware, The Matrix Resurrections forgot what made the franchise great.

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  snunes97

  4 Jul 27, 2023

  There's absolutely no reason for this movies to exist. It makes Reloaded and Revolutions look like masterpieces. For some reason, someone thought it would be a good idea to make a new Matrix movie with none of the core elements of the original Matrix. The original style is completely gone and the movie is visually generic and boring. The fights are messy and meaningless. The returning characters are forced into an extremely weak plot and are stripped of their original characteristics in favor of some new characters nobody cares about. There are lore inconsistencies all over the place and the overall goal of protagonists is pointless. Also, the meta jokes, the usage of footage from the original movie and the forced comedy moments are the worst things I've seen in recent history. What a slap in the face for Matrix fans.

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  Dark Jedi

  8 Aug 17, 2023

  This is another one of those movies where I hesitated quite some time before getting around to watch it. I was worried it was going to either be another woke Hollywood destruction of a franchise or just a mediocre money grab trying to squeeze the last drops out the franchise. I was wrong though. When the end credits started to roll I found myself having quite enjoyed the movie. Sure, it does not have the wow factor of the first movie but that one was the first with an entirely new story and concept so it is perhaps not so surprising. I would say that I easily enjoyed this one more than the third movie in the original trilogy though. They have made a story with a semi-plausible explanation as to why and how Neo is back in the Matrix and why he is alive in the first place. After a somewhat slow but not at all uninteresting beginning the movie takes of with the usual stunts, mysteries and cool special effects. The martial arts scenes are really not as impressive as in the first movie but the special effects are quite cool. There is a new bad guy, or should I say program, for Neo to confront and, again, he has some new and old friends to help him. I do miss the original Morpheus though. His replacement do not have the same carisma. Otherwise the characters are not bad. The weakest character and the only one I did not like at all was the new Smith. This guy was so cool in the original trilogy. The Smith they have in this movie is just your average mediocre Hollywood bad guy. Overall a quite enjoyable sci-fi/action movie and it was nice to see Keanu Reeves back as Neo.

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  YouShouldKnow

  2 Feb 8, 2025

  This a film that shouldn't have been made. I sat beside a Matrix fan who sat through Matrix 2 and Matrix 3. They couldn't sit through this one. They made this film with the assumption watchers had seen the old ones **and** remembered every detail. Having watched them all myself long ago, the film is filled with references and winks to the old material and I was honestly lost. The references aren't subtle and are cut very badly into the scenes with no sense of flow. This is done right from the start of the film and just never stops. It's like reliving an acid trip and getting shocked every once in a while to jump in and out of it. Ignoring the references, the story is just terrible. Within 30 minutes you know how the movie will develop and (probably) end. I couldn't finish it. Maybe this is for people who have had bad drug experiences and want to show what it's like to another person, but for me, it was not worth watching.