Yeah they should have left it alone. But Hollywood's gonna do their thing and dig up and rehash their franchises every once in a while. I mean its not like the Matrix was well looked upon after the first film anyways a sequel to a ill received sequel will absolutely tank.

Also, apparently there were talks that WB were going to go ahead with the Matrix sequels with or without Wachowski's and Lana actually came back for this one. Unfortunately this move almost seemed like a middle finger back at WB (even referenced in the film) and instead gave us a half-hearted attempt to make a decent film despite that insane budget - which even more than Dune!

Same, its a real shame because I was really looking forward to this as well. Like the thought of seeing the aftermath of Zion, the people and machines after the war sounded really interesting and has a lot of potential. However what we ended up with was poorly made with way too many compromises.. When you have no Hugo Weaving, Laurence Fishburn or even people like Yuen Woo-ping (fighting choreographer) mia, it didn't really feel like a Matrix movie. This added almost nothing to the series. and for a lot of people (me included) more would be akin to scraping the bottom of a barrel that has already been scraped.

Come to think of it, it's time for another Terminator movie :/ Oh wait, last one was 2019, give it another 2 years.
Total Recall 3? I fell asleep during the second one, don't remember much of it.
Back to the future 4?
Alien erm 7? 2017 was the last one, yep that will be next.

Why? How? The 3rd movie had better acting, better story, better special effects, better choreography, better editing, better action, better setting, better camera angles and shots (the new one cuts too much just to not show you that these actors are too old now for these action scenes), darker, I cant even think of a single thing that the new one did better, like, at all.

Yeah honestly I'd rather leave the franchise behind than this becoming another Terminator or Aliens. But fair enough, I mean there is potential in it but I can't see WB delivering the goods. Unless they really pull their fingers out and get a really passionate director like Snyder, the producers, choreographers and the rest of the cast.

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The movie actually breaks the 4th wall and tells the audience straight up why the movie was made. There's nothing be confused about.

The movie actually makes multiple statements of this fashion in the movie. Literally. There's actually some behind the scenes stuff about how Warner Bros wanted to a Morpheus prequel staring Micheal B Jordan and there was much protest against WB for that decision.

Yeah, apparently the movie tries to be weirdly self-conscious. And I heard WB was going to move forward with or without the Wachowskis, so Lana jumped in. I guess she thought she could mitigate some of the damage by being involved. In her place, I might have passed and said I don't want my name associated with this.

I have HBO Max. It took me three sittings to get through this movie. It was terrible. 

TLDR: The movie spends it's first act mocking the type of film it turns out to be.

Revolutio is mediocre so it's not like it's going to ruin anything, the series is already ruined

I fail to understand how come any of this would make for a good story or a good film at all. I didn't ask for a pretentious film trying to look smart. I ask only for a good movie with a good story, good direction, good acting, and great action and special effects is expected from anything with the word matrix on it.

The movie had none of this, they should have ditched the old characters altogether and made a brand new Matrix trilogy with new younger actors. Casting should have been done better too, the actors for agent smith and Morpheus are nowhere near as engaging as the old actors.

Also why do they have to be smith and Morpheus, are they so lacking in intelligence that they cant make up new characters? Or a brand new story altogether? With this universe there's literally thousands of ideas that could be implemented, so many different realities and worlds they could have made up.

This was just a lazy movie made by lazy people who no original thought and no intelligence, made for a population that doesn't require movies to be good anymore. Its impressive how nowadays people will just pay a lot for a ticket and not even demand good cinema.

Revolutions, while not the best Matrix, was way way better than this new rubbish movie. It was better in every way possible, they didn't need to show you footage of the first movie, because they had the ability and intelligence of coming up with a story and ending. Actors were amazing and Keanu reaves was on the top form.

Now the actors are too old to do action, hence the cuts everywhere and bad choreography.

CGI was better in revolutions and that was made almost 20 years before. We should demand movies to improve in tech, not to get worse. But if people like you will just take it, then what's the point of them even spending money and time to do a proper movie, it sells anyway.

Revolutions would get an 8 from me, ressurections would get a 3, so bad I didnt even bother to finish watching it.