 It's 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 bitch 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 10. 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 when not just Neil but Trinity and Morpheus the sequels went a different direction that 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 our new movies just getting that bad where I'm looking back on some older ones fondly or Where 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 our 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 Wachowsky was coming back solo to direct this I thought to myself 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 my god Cloud Atlas whatever that film is with Channing Tatum where he's got cat eyes a Jupiter rising or Jupiter ascending what a what a disaster, but maybe Lana Wachowsky untethered from her sister Would do a better job. We'll see if she's the one with the talent in the family She's not she's not at all especially in the writing department the script for this movie is an absolute shit show I think I read an early review that this movie was gonna be polarizing for fans old and new No, no, it's it's just bad if it's polarizing then the taste of moviegoers has gotten so Awful that it's not even worth talking to them about since this is spoiler free We're just gonna go through the checklist of what I looked for in a good movie the script the story the plot Bad bad bad Are you sick of sequels that come out many years after the original? Regurgitating plot points and dialogue and nostalgia just for the sake of a cheap Reaction then it's gonna be hard for you to get past this over two-hour film let alone the first ten minutes Because the whole movie is remember this remember this it is so meta It is so up its own ass that it can't even be bothered to tell anything unique I was predicting scenes camera shots and music Half an hour 45 minutes before they even hit I went with my good friends to this movie We've seen all of them together in theaters, so this was kind of a big deal Generations of the matrix in theaters. What a splendid idea all of us hated it not even disliked it full-blown Hatred of this movie. Let's push away the script. How was the action a staple of the franchise? They they birthed bullet time they gave us phenomenal Choreographed action and spectacle the likes that hadn't been seen before. What's a more aggressive word for dog shit? First of all, there is a decent amount of action the camera got a lot more shaky since the first three movies though Secondly Neo mostly does this Stopping bullets and throw in and doing force pushes He doesn't do it There's like one scene where he's doing hand-to-hand combat in this movie and that's a training simulation Which you see in the trailer not not good either every single time Lana reminds me of the older movies She's doing herself a disservice because they were done better in those films. She's cosplaying here She's doing a shitty Interpretation of a movie she already made at best this movie comes off as a bad parody at worst It ruins the matrix films that came before there's a scene in the film where they referenced bullet time actually say those words and They talk about how they need to up the game for a sequel. So what do they do? Bullet time, but way worse. It has this her key jerkiness to it almost an in-and-out-of-focus Blur effect that looks miserable. It's not fun to watch The only thing that's retained from the original trilogy is the sound effects of What? So stories and myths actions a disaster by the way the action scenes They're they're cut up really poorly too that shot in the trailer where she's running in the hallway and goes up sideways And then flips over it doesn't connect well The shots do not line up there's something off about it and that goes throughout this picture Okay, uh The music remember the music from the original trilogy Don Davis Junkie XL at Lincoln Park at Marilyn Manson that freaking awesome bands plus the symphony plus the overall Scoring of the movies the burly brawl. I mean there's so many amazing songs gone Gone from this new one Wait, we have like two composers. I've never even heard of you have some of the original theme obviously sprinkled throughout But the new stuff is boring. It's it's lame everything's lame. This is the matrix. Where's the coolness? Where's the leather? Where are the shades? Where the where the agents? It's like no agents in this movie and they're not a threat. I was never fearing for this new Morpheus or for neo or trinity I was never scared for them. I never was enthralled in the rich Backstory of the machine world and and how they're able to do all the things they're doing I never once had to tap into my brain and think about things. I was more or less just the fuddled confused Not in a smart way in a why the fuck did they do this kind of way? It's amazing how Lana knows Exactly what made the original so great, but doesn't have the capability or the wherewithal to make it again This is a hard pass. Usually I say watch the film make up your mind yourself No, no if you I can't imagine any fan any real fan of the original trilogy going to this and saying like oh wow This was great. This was such a return to form. It's a chore to sit through. It's a bore to sit through. It's frustrating It's miserable. I hated every second of it. Those are my thoughts on the matrix Resurrections wasn't that fun? If you saw the movie, let me know in the comments below How much you hated it if you liked it? Oh, I can't wait to hear why like the video if you had some fun Subscribe to the channel for more honest reviews and hopefully I'll see you soon Nostalgia sure is a wonderful tool isn't it we can cart out these old-ass actors make them do the things they did 20 years ago Much better. It's a fun time. You know what else is fun Supporting people you like on YouTube such as myself you could talk to your friends or family at Christmas time and say You know what that Adam fellow he's doing reviews, right? He gets it He gets what makes a movie good or in this case what makes it bad. So share it around spread the love I'd love to keep these numbers growing and hopefully I'll see you around take care