Great idea, horrible execution

Rating: 3/10 (7 February 2020)

Here is a movie that makes a very good job at making you question and think about what exactly is real and what isn't and whether that even is a meaningful question be begin with. On that part, the movie does a great job. But unfortunately for me, that's all it seems to do.
The Hollywood cliche love having mysterious powers, e.g. bringing back a dead man back and the 'chosen one' bull just doesn't fit in with science fiction stories. Once you're dead, you're dead. There's no bringing you back. And when a female character who uses highly sophisticated technological machinery on a daily basis refuses to understand this simple biological fact, it makes you wonder how 'real' the character is.
On top of that there is all this fate and prophecy stuff that doesn't fit in with everything else. Unless you have hacked into the matrix and have control over every single thing that happens in there, there is no way you can tell what the future is. And that's the future in the matrix. Guessing the future in the real world is almost impossible. A machine that has overthrown almost the entire human population has no chance of losing to a single individual.
Also the situation portrayed in the movie is so unrealistic. If AI really did take over us, and if what is shown to happen in the movie really did happen, then resisting against them wouldn't have been as easy as they make it seem. With the amount of energy source they have, they would have flooded the entire sewers with bots. Heck, within a matter of days they'd realize they could do better and dispatch a swarm of nanobots which would be too small to detect with the current technology and literally zero technological advances of these puny humans.
No, if this really happened, then resisting the machines will be much more complicated and harder. By underestimating the machines, this movie does two things:
1. It makes the inexperienced viewers feel like humans are 'special' . That they have an edge over the machines. And that some humans are just chosen by fate to do big and important tasks (and machines aren't? No, because only humans are special). This is good for the movie. By taking advantage of the insecurities of the human viewers, it increases the chances of this movie making more money.
2. It misses out a chance to be more unique than it really is. A true, real fight against the machines would be so much harder. At every step, the machines would always be a step ahead of us and the only way we could win is by using an unconventional yet highly creative and imaginative method along with a huge stroke of luck. By taking the safe way out, it narrows itself down to a simple action movie instead of expanding into the more promising genre of action-adventure.