just gonna dress up for this put on like a black outfit with some shades i'm sure a lot of other critics are doing that you know because the matrix is cool i didn't though because unlike the original trilogy the matrix resurrections isn't cool it isn't smart it isn't revolutionary it doesn't make you question things yes the matrix resurrections isn't a lot of things but the one thing it certainly is terrible this is going to be a spoiler free review i'll put out a full-blown PROFANITY_TOKEN fest afterwards day or two later and we'll talk more we'll go further into things i feel like you have to set the table when your four movies deep and it's been over a decade since the last one i am a massive fan of the trilogy specifically number one i like many impressionable teenagers when this film came out was all in on the matrix i was running up walls i was pretending to dodge bullets saw the film in theaters three times i wouldn't shut up about it i had wallpapers on my computer i just the movie is still in my top ten it's just so unique it's so special it has some amazing characters and ideas it's got one of the best villains in cinematic history agent smith it has such a cool protagonist with not just neo but trinity and morpheus the sequels went a different direction than i was hoping for i still enjoy the hell out of them number three was a massive letdown when i saw it in theaters a long time ago over time it's gotten better for me and for a while i thought man are new movies just getting that bad where i'm looking back on some older ones fondly or were my expectations just too high and the ideas i had in my head weren't what the wachowskis were thinking about so it ultimately went a different direction and let me down the answer most definitely is the former movies today especially these big blockbuster resurrections of sort are absolute garbage and even when they are competently done like a jurassic world or a star wars force awakens they ultimately fizzle out right away because they were playing off nostalgia and didn't have really any creative new bones in their body there was a lot there and i haven't even talked about matrix resurrections and honestly i don't want to the film once again goes deep into the whole blue pill red pill thing you can take the blue pill stay ignorant in wonderland with alice or you can take the red pill and see how deep that rabbit hole goes which pill makes me forget this movie exists that's the one i want when i first heard that lana wachowski was coming back solo to direct this i thought to myself okay this might be okay actually the wachowskis as a duo had a few good films and then a whole bunch of bad ones starting right after speed racer they basically made nothing but trash maybe their tv series was better but uh my god cloud atlas whatever that film is with channing tatum where he's got cat eyes uh jupiter rising or jupiter ascending what a what a disaster but maybe lana witchowski untethered from her sister would do a better job we'll see if
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