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Soundwave on 26 December 2021
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shikamaru317 said:
Soundwave said:

If you liked Reloaded and Revolutions, this about on par with those. 

It is meta in a big way though, think Wes Craven's New Nightmare or even Scream IV ... both of which I think are good movies actually. 

The action is not as good as the previous films, clearly the lead actors are a lot older now and it's not really the main emphasis of the story. This story is more about recapturing the "mind fuckery" of the first Matrix movie (where you don't know or don't fully trust what is real, what isn't, this movie goes even further with that though). 

But if you are an actual fan of the Matrix lore, that who stuff about "it totally shits on the old films" ... uh fuck no. It's very much a continuation from the last scene in the Matrix Revolutions, it basically does answer all the questions at the end of Revolutions' last scene. You will see what happened after Revolutions, how things have changed, etc. etc. 

It isn't one of those sequels or "reboots" that goes "well the previous movies didn't happen or don't count so just forget that". 

I liked the first movie, 2 and 3 were a bit hit and miss, I enjoyed the action sequences in them but the story was a bit of a mess. Action is probably my favorite thing in Matrix though, so the action on Resurrections being a downgrade is a bit of a turnoff, and I was also a bit turned off by the Morpheus recasting due to the Wachowski's deciding to make his controversial Matrix Online death canon. Those plus the largely negative reviews I have seen are enough to wait on a rental probably.

I can just tell you the basic premise of Resurrections if you want to be spoiled, either you can accept his idea or you can't:

Spoiler!

After the events of Revolutions (Matrix 3), Neo and Trinity's bodies are re-inserted into the new version of the Matrix that we see at the end of Matrix 3. However to keep Neo/Anderson pacified and docile he's given the life of a game programmer who has made a trilogy of games called The Matrix. So yes, "The Matrix" movies as a popular story actually exist in this version of the Matrix and Anderson is told that everything that he may remember from happened before is not real. 

Now of course eventually he breaks free of this control, and from there on the movie is more or less just a sequel to Matrix 1/2/3, we see there are changes on the human side and some on the machine side, but nothing that really hasn't been foreshadowed.