The Matrix Resurrections

The Matrix Resurrections

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

  • Released: 2021-12-16
  • Runtime: 148 minutes
  • Genre: Action, Adventure, Thrillers
  • Stars: Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Jonathan Groff, Jessica Henwick, Neil Patrick Harris, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Lambert Wilson, Jada Pinkett Smith, Daniel Bernhardt, Christina Ricci, Ellen Hollman, Brian J. Smith, Toby Onwumere, ErĂ©ndira Ibarra, Andrew Lewis Caldwell, Max Riemelt, Telma Hopkins, Chris Reid, Ian Pirie, Etienne Vick, Mel Powell, Andrew Koponen, James D. Weston II, John Lobato, Thomas Dalby, Clayton Watson, Stephen Dunlevy, Tiger Hu Chen, Joshua Grothe, Chad Stahelski, Amadei Weiland, Freema Agyeman, Andrew Rothney, Mumbi Maina, Max Mauff, Michael X. Sommers, L. Trey Wilson, Purab Kohli, Sabrina Strehl, Cooper Rivers, Esther Silex, Frank Isom, Leo Sheng, John Gaeta, Donald Mustard, Kim Libreri, Joe Mazza, Julian Grey, Gaige Chaturantabut, Volkhart Buff, Nicolas de Pruyssenaere, Felix Quinton, Aaron Pina, Dani Swan, London Breed, Steven Roy, Mercy Malick, Juval Dieziger, James McTeigue, Sarah McTeigue, Tom Hardy, William W. Barbour, Kenny Beers, Cabran E. Chamberlain, Thomas Dalby, Erwin Felicilda, John Lobato, Ed Moy, James D. Weston II, Laurence Fishburne, Hugo Weaving, Gloria Foster
  • Director: Lana Wachowski
 Comments
  • exuberantloquacity - 10 January 2023
    I wanted this to be good or reasonable
    ... but it was neither. The trilogy goes down in ratings from the first movie. I remember enjoying all three and having no particular complaints about any of them.

    This was one of a handful of movies I stopped watching half way through to come and write a scathing review.

    I did a similar thing after trying to sit through "The Secret", after a friend wrongly told me that would change my life.

    By the middle of this movie, I couldn't believe it at all. The acting is cardboard. The music doesn't work. The plot and dialogue make little sense and aren't interesting. As many have pointed out, these reboot films usually fail. Bill and Ted's was similar; why dig up something classic that people loved, carry on with the same characters, but decades later, and write a sub-par story that fails as a sequel, and for many, ruins the experience of watching all of them, making them wish they'd avoided the reboot. I have no interest in seeing how this shocking movie ends. Nothing about the story thus far, the cinematography, etc., make me want to continue.

    Another reviewer wrote that this movie makes you wonder if the writers had stolen the original Matrix script. I have to concur. How can the writers be so much worse after years more experience?

    Sad.
  • njdevils-75205 - 29 December 2022
    Underrated
    "Every time I stand here, I mean, O-M-G. It's so perfect, it's gotta be fake."

    Stories retold, machinery at work. One can't really leave it. The first Matrix was the work of two artists at the start of their careers and looking ahead, this one is the work of someone who has won and lost and remains stuck with her definitive work in an industry that is itself stuck in an endless loop. The first Matrix is a wonderful work of remixing packed with intriguing ideas and also patient zero of a lot of what is bad about current blockbusters. This movie about images mirroring each other and how stories are reprocessed and remembered, how they belong and not to the artist, how embalmed and fixed in time they can become knows of this and it can be an exciting self-reflexive trip. It is certainly much better than current big budget filmmaking, lots of great images, some true physical weight, actual stakes and personality while remaining very much a compromise, the possible movie in a rigged system. One that subverts nostalgia while careful serving it up, whose drama is all about Trinity while sidesteping Moss as much as possible, that understands the appeal of old while trying to remain fresh and so on. It is a very exciting remix, particular during the very playful first hour. Abdul-Mateen II and Groff the two actors playing the more obvious reconfigured characters in particular are having a great time. Wachowski also really gets Reeves appeal and she uses him and his durability in great ways. Eventually the game of mirrors has ro become secondary to a plot and some of the series weaker turgid qualities do return. The big info dump monologues are as airless as ever (the major one by Harris stops the movie dead for a real long chunk). I suspect fans are going to make a huge disservice with comparisons, it might resist fan service, but there's nothing as troubling as let's say Twin Peaks The Return, the sinister forces are more concentrated on film itself than the world at large. Wachowski romanticism and go for broke mentality remain her big calling cards. At its very best, Resurrections is touching and has occasional moments of awe, at its worse it is well served remix package that keeps the good and bad while reafirming its filmmaker personality. It can't really escape the machine, it might barely subvert it, but it gives it some life and emotion, small steps perhaps, but I'm glad Wachowski still keep faith.