The Matrix Resurrections

General General Discussion
1

The Matrix Resurrections: Review

The Matrix series has always explored the issues of free will and the nature of reality* and this installment focuses on that perhaps more then the past movies. This movie incorporates various elements of the past movies, used actual footage in spots, and all the important major, and some minor, characters are back in some form or another. It was great to see them all - in what ever form they took- for me. A totally new character played by Neil Patrick Harris (The Analyst) was well done. I thought Keanu Reeves did a surprisingly good job in the acting for this movie, and let’s be honest, acting is not his strong suit…

Like all Matrix movies, if you fail to suspend your disbelief enough (red pill moment?) and start asking questions like why do they keep shooting at the Agents when they know it does not do anything but waste ammo (can you run out of ammo in the Matrix?), and such, you enjoy it less. Like past Matrix movies, this one has its strengths and weaknesses in the same places for the same reasons.

The acting and casting was solid, the visuals, and related were solid. Some of the action scenes drag a bit and can visually seem bit generic, but we are also used to the Matrix action style and the countless movies that knocked them off too, so I think that’s part of it too. Some of the fight/action scenes do drag a bit and feel rehashed but still visually fun to watch.

The hokie trope that love conquers all is still the underlying message that saves the world, and it gets close to getting into all inclusive wokeness, but it’s not bad enough to ruin the experience and the past movies had some of that too.

It combines enough elements of the past movies to make viewers feel fun nostalgia and adds modern aspects that work. My guess is for those who only thought the first one was any good, will not like this movie. Those who enjoyed them all to varying degrees as I did, should enjoy this movie. Finally, as with the past Matrix, the visuals and audio are a large part of The Matrix Resurrections, so unless you have a legit HT system, it’s one of those movies best enjoyed in the theater.

Me, I enjoyed the hell out of and the scene where Mr Anderson has to be re red pilled was great.

A-

//youtu.be/nNpvWBuTfrc

  • Which continues to be a topic hotly debated by physicists, philosophers, theologians, etc
2

This vid does a great job of explaining the key aspects of the movie, but contains major spoilers, so don’t watch if you have not seen the movie would be my advice:

//youtu.be/SrRfpImPkk0

3

I liked it and want to see another one.

The only thing I could do without was the swarm mode. It was too zombi.

4

Agreed. It was trying too hard to tap into the zombie fixation people have these days. It also dragged on a bit, but at least didn’t ruin the movie. I will say when bodies started falling from the sky, it did make for a cool visual. They did a good job visually at least, but could have been shorter.

5

Agreed. It was trying too hard to tap into the zombie fixation people have these days. It also dragged on a bit, but at least didn’t ruin the movie. I will say when bodies started falling from the sky, it did make for a cool visual. They did a good job visually at least, but could have been shorter.

6

The whack job Lana Wachowski said that it and the previous Matrixs were “trans” movies. Did you guys get that from the movie? If not, I’ll probably go see it.

7

I didn’t get that out of it. You know, most people in Hollywood are whack jobs anyway so just go watch it.

8

No idea what she’s talking about, but per above " …it gets close to getting into all inclusive wokeness, but it’s not bad enough to ruin the experience and the past movies had some of that too."

9

Just finished it, on HBO. Gotta say that I was disappointed. It just didn’t feel…inspired. It had some cool moments, but as a whole it was much weaker than the original trilogy. C-.

10

I heard it was a steaming pile. The only good Matrix movie is the first one in my opinion.

11

Carrie Moss in latex will always be the one I remember.

12

There are a lot of layers to the first one, most notably the Gnostic view that we are in a prison (the Matrix) made by the Yaldaboath (the Abrahamic God) who is an evil creator god. The hero is the one who releases man from that prison, a Prometheus, a Lucifer, a light-bearer (the one, Neo). White and black, lightening bolts or thunder and other imagery is part and parcel Gnostic. Trinity, who plays many roles, is most closely aligned with Sophia (wisdom) and hence her “love” relationship with the One. Understanding the paradigm of the Gnosis affords one the “freedom” to do anything in the temporal life regardless of the moral or physical ramifications, because there is no good or evil in their world view, only what you want at the moment of desire. This explains the inexplicable ideas of biological males identifying as pregnant and the vast, myriad ways the abuse of children is overlooked, excused and covered up by the power elite who are all clearly Gnostic/Satanist/Luciferian practitioners of this left-hand path.

Sorry, not sorry.

13

I guess there really ISN’T anything new under the sun. I really don’t remember the first movie all that much, just bits and pieces, so…is that last sentence part of the first movie or is it your read on the present day reality consuming the real life Hollywood and/or the culture today?

14

Then you are a simple minded fellow. Nothing wrong with that, just saying.

15

How so?

16

The latter. I’m ridiculed here for saying it, but what else explains the repeated scandals involving children from Corey Haim to the CNN producer? Whether they know they are acting as if “liberated” from right and wrong by Lucifer/Prometheus or not, they are doing these things. You can see these themes in almost any production these days.

17

Is this a defense of 2 and 3 or suggesting the movie that just came out where the director literally tells the audience they don’t want to be making the movie isn’t a pile of trash?

18

I don’t agree with that assessment on any of it personally. I do think people need to see it in theaters or have a legit HT set up to really experience it proper.

19

First of all, I certainly didn’t mean to imply that you are stupid when I said simple minded. I reread what I wrote and see how it could be taken that way.

To your question. The entire Matrix trilogy is so layered and deep that it has to be watched many times. If you just look at it on the surface, it may look like some botched up action movie.

Some people want to watch a movie and walk away understanding everything about it. The Matrix trilogy is not one of them types of movies. It is very complex.

20

I too watched it on HBO and I thought it was borderline terrible. It took me about 5 hours to watch it because I kept getting so bored that I kept pausing it and walking off for a little and then I would remember I was watching it and would start it back. I also think the first one is the best and I have trouble with the other 2 before this one. Plus the wokeness at the end spoiler alert where trinity has to save Neo by flying him away from the agents because he no longer was able to fly. Plus the action a lot of the time seemed like old people trying to do martial arts. Hard to watch really. Writing this makes me realize how much I really hated it. I was really looking forward to it to