Matrix Resurrections

Maybe in a different world or reality, where the previous three films didn't exist, it would be a wow modern and cutting-edge blockbuster with all the hallmarks that are so hot today, or that Hollywood filmmakers want to make hot. However, given the existence of the original trilogy, the fourth film is half a mockery and half a slap in the face to the entire Matrix universe with its storyline. Basically three films rolled into one completely unnecessary reboot 20 years apart – how refreshing. I hope Grandpa and Grandma won't do it again after twenty years – there's always a reason why, it's a love story. (09/01/2022)

That “meta” introduction was almost physically painful. Not because I have anything against meta-movies, but because I simply found the self-reflection banal, shallow and unimaginative. There’s nothing there that cheaper movies wouldn’t have made more interesting in the past. And I find it utterly embarrassing of Wachowski to smuggle such gibberish into the sequel of a Hollywood film after twenty years. Did they hold a gun to her head to make it? Fortunately, after a few minutes, it switches from this painful despair to the expected action sci-fi, which I like in concept, but which at the same time toils in many ways and doesn't make use of its potential and the various over-the-top themes that deserve elaboration. It seems that the main driving motive behind the film is a kind of nostalgia and a desire to give its heroes the well-deserved happy ending that they were not afforded in the original trilogy. By the way, the reviews about the weak action did not lie, there was really nothing that could make you jump from your seat. Although I found a couple of scenes to be relatively imaginative, the audiovisual experience of the fourth Matrix is rather sterile in the end, something that stands out especially when compared to the various cuts to the original films – each of those scenes has a more interesting "face" of its own than all the newly shot footage put together. (23/12/2021)

An entertaining and surprisingly current coronavirus continuation. Reaction to the third Matrix will depend heavily on how much the viewers took the original trilogy, because the Wachowski sister keeps on making unhidden fun out of it from beginning to end. It mocks human sheep who want just to get on an enjoy life: why won’t the powers that be just leave them alone? It also ridicules the fact that this sequel was even being made, admitting that it was only for the money. Oh, and for love, love too. The special effects and action sequences are only mediocre, but the fights are at least quite easy to follow. All the revolutionary things that were so jaw-dropping in the first movie are now simply ordinary, expected, or else made fun of. The second half of this picture is rather headless chicken and a lot of things from it need explaining. I thought this movie lacked an overall message, but on the other hand I quite enjoyed watching this self-reflective or even cynical period to the series. (02/01/2022)

The fourth film has a relatively interesting ratio in the cast of old familiar faces with newcomers to the franchise (Christina Ricci or Priyanka Chopra, for example). And this ratio decently represents the development of the entire Matrix film series. In an age of elevated cinematic sagas, Resurrections is a nostalgic genre blend with which it’s nice to experience a little of that viewer comfort. For now, the last film rehabilitated the whole tetralogy in my eyes and the lingering bad aftertaste of the second and third films slowly faded away. (23/04/2022)

In my opinion, this movie is actually like last year's Mortal Kombat as it is such a "guilty pleasure", at least so far this year. As a standalone movie, the fourth Matrix movie does not stand up well, in my opinion, and few people will enjoy it without knowing certain realities and a sense of irony. Still, I was gloating in the cinema and marveled at how the studio could have greenlighted this screenplay. The way the whole thing went reminded me a bit of the third season of Twin Peaks, where David Lynch broke free from the chain and was meta in his own peculiar way. He left popular characters in hibernation for most of the time and managed to piss off half the audience to boot. It could quite possibly be summed up as follows: If you are one of those who wanted and looked forward to the fourth Matrix movie, you are probably going to be as disappointed as ever. If you are one of those who considered the original a borderline masterpiece and did not care for the sequel, you are going to get an entertaining and interesting experiment. I guess that is about all. (04/02/2022)