It's a flawed movie like any other but it was entertaining and enjoyable with a nice message. That's all I really look for in a movies these days where I don't have the time to be an elitist or over analyze a film like I used to. Sure, some things don't work, but overall if I sit down and enjoy it for what it was, it's a thumbs up for me.
The Matrix is now an allegory of studios creating endless sequels. Analyst said it best: as long as he put Neo and Trinity close to each other but not allow them to get together, they generate unlimited energy. This is exactly what studios want: to endlessly put characters and stories in repetitive loops, but never finish the story, generating unlimited $$$. I'm sure it hurt Lana to do this film, but she was able to get the message across, and I'm sure she's enjoying some of that additional $$$ too.
Yeah-- AND IT'S A GREAT MATRIX FILM. DOESN'T YOUR HEART BLE.E.D. for middle aged, past his prime Thomas Anderson ONCE AGAIN FAR MORE DELIBERATELY TRAPPED IN THE MATRIX? HE'S US.
I think the matrix movies are whatever you see in them everybody has his or her own story and so the matrix means different things for different people.
I always felt the reason neo didn’t want people seeing him as the one and just a man was besides him being unsure was because if he says he’s the one they will just depend on him. However if you believe he’s just a man doing best he can then maybe you can be the next neo. You’ll be the best you instead of depending on a savior. But that’s just my just how I see it and in all honesty I think this movie showed it best when they started making the fourth game and he says what do ppl think of when they hear matrix. It’s different view for all of us. Isn’t that what makes it so special?
Being the one isnt about Being the one. Its about being the first one... figgering out the puzzle... so being the first one isnt that special...he knows he isnt special...he is just the first...and dont want credit from onconcious human beings as a savior for willing to be the first... architects demi god lyrics
@Dino Sauro A wise man takes his own advice. By disliking Matrix Revelations you are expressing your POV. That's the only fact you can claim, and in truth that's your baggage talking. So, enjoy your journey. Bye.
Great point. I also feel like he was right as well.. he was just an anamoly.. its 6th interation.. but the difference was in the firdt five he just had a deep love of humanity.. but in the 6th, where he fell in love with Trinity.. that was the one were he "became the One" except it was Trinity's declaration of love for him, saying he had to be the One because the Oracle told her she would fall in love with the One and she loved him.. that was when Neo was RESURRECTED. So really, the One is Two, both Male and Female, not a binary choice but a continuum.. and the most beautiful moment before they went in to claim Trinity from the Matrix he told the next gen crewperson who held Trinity as a hero that she believed in him once, it was his turn to believe in her.. it was perfect!
This was hella well done. Social media trashed this movie but I kept an open mind and actually really enjoyed it and you helped articulate some of the initial thoughts and feelings I was having as I watched. Very dope.
@@iwatatiff Except it doesn’t disrespect the previous films whatsoever If anything it enhances both reloaded and revolutions but that’s gonna be social media for you they’re going to believe what they believe
EXACTLY!!... people so ready to trash this movie but it’s not trash it jus didn’t top the original.. it’s a new feel, so what it’s still not garbage.. jus different and this was the only positive feedback I’ve seen so far on the media
@@joshmiller8921 its different, and bad. Its like they are trying so hard to be meta that they didn't realize the outcome was gonna be what seemed like shitty writing
@@denzelstephen266 nah if they took a step back then id say it was bad.. but I don’t think this was no worse than the third one, it was pretty decent to me
One of the film's most important points in my view is that by engaging people's emotions you can get them to not even want to wake up from the Matrix - a 'gentler' more powerful system of control, which is why the analyst is a much more successful (and scarier) ruler than the architect.
@@firequeen76 Quite often. In drugs, drink, and sex, for example. The habit of getting outside our own heads, to escape the existential emptiness and dread of our existence, is well entrenched. But perhaps there's another way - to give ourselves compassion, love, and kindness instead. In realising that loss is part of the process, and that it always precedes a new beginning - with us, or without us - may be more constructive.
@@firequeen76 Its funny you say that, considering our entire live basically revolves around this concept as it os one of the most fundamental building blocks of our socio-economic system.
What I see as one of the most important contributions of this film is the fact that we can talk about it. Or at least you can in some places. Much as I loved Spider-Man, the conversation around that film is largely spoilers etc. Maybe there are greater themes to talk about there, but the conversation largely isn’t going to happen. With this film I’ve already watched a few times trying to puzzle out it’s point on binaries, reboot culture, narratives. That’s worth a lot to me. Unfortunately one of the things that prevents real engagement with the film is our current tendency towards encampments, and refusal to engage with ideas we don’t agree with in a thoughtful manner.
This version of the matrix is the 7th version the number 7 is a very spiritual number. In Hinduism and Bhuddishm it is believed that there are 6-9 realms or realities. Each plane with its own set of laws and conditions. Since the matrix films are an allegory for the existence of consciousness within the perception of humans it’s plausible to believe that the real world is a simulation that operates independently within its own boundaries but fundamentally it is part of a cycle of domains. In hermetics the second universal law is that of correspondence - as above so below. Just like reincarnation and karma. What you do in this life affects what you become or what you do in the next life. The matrix and the real world represent the lower dimensions of reality i.e. hell, this correlates to the first three lower chakras: root chakra, sacral and solar plexus. Neo and trinity together represent the fourth chakra which is the heart chakra. Coincidence as this is the fourth movie. Number four also represents time, the fourth dimension. This is why in resurrections we see many cuts and flashbacks to the original trilogy, this represents the past. The 7th version of the matrix takes place in the modern day 21st century (present) and when Neo wakes up in the real world he learns that 60 years have past since he saved Zion (future). If you decode the matrix mathematically you see how intricate, metaphysical, profound and revealing each movie truly is and how transcendental the franchise is as a whole because it subverts expectations and challenges you to question your own existence and perception of reality. If you consider each movie in sequence then you see how each feature serves its purpose flawlessly. The first movie represents the number one: meaning perfection, originality, creation. This is why everyone loved the original film the most. It’s pedigree is undeniable, it will never be replicated or surpassed. There will never ever be a better matrix film then the first film. It is the one and only exception. The number two represents duality, instability, complication, again most people loathe matrix reloaded because it’s the middle chapter, it has no beginning nor end. The third film represents resolution, cohesion, finality. Metaphorically if the first film is “birth” second one is “life” then the third represents “death”. Just as easy as - 1,2,3. Resurrections represents four, meaning time, fourth dimension, quantum entanglement, multiverse, system & order, versatility, multiprocessing (neo running a module, subroutine within the matrix), repetition, four also represents a sequence. Like making a beat - and a one and a two and a three and four!” Just some food for thought..
Yeah dude, other than spoilers and character match-ups, we know exactly what to expect from Spiderman... As much as they tried to take a fresh take with Tom Holland, the message of self-sacrifice remains the same. It is nothing new.
Umm. No. You're just too trusting. This movie is simply the release of 30 years worth of guilt. You see, the Wachowskis were handed someone's script back in 1993, and it's upon that work: The Ciphermen, that they made their fame and fortune. In 2018 the writer of the stolen work put out an exposé on a con artist woman who claimed they stole from her. In it, he included the actual stolen work, and the Wachowskis saw that video (Sophia Stewart The Definitive Case Study). Their response was The Matrix Resurrections. They were enraged because up until that point no one had figured out that this con artist woman, Sophia Stewart, was created by Matrix lawyers! The new movie is basically one giant confession and middle finger at the dude they stole from.
Actually this whole film's satire reminds me of Meta Gear Solid 4 where Old Snake is tired and torturing himself to get through the game. Seeing Neo tortured by The Analyst for "his amusement" really ticks that same box, but more sadistic. 👍
You know, I actually find it very interesting that you referenced Metal Gear Solid because although the message Metal Gear Solid is different than the Matrix in a sense, it is still connected in some ways, and also I've heard that Hideo Kojima has some involvement with the Matrix, but I forget if it has to do with the website or the matrix video game. There is some link between the two. As Agent Smith said in the 4th film: "Stories don't really end, we've been telling the same story over and over", and I believe that although the message takes secular and religious philosophy and religions around the world and incorporates it into the film, I believe all of those things are meant to illustrate something concerning Christianity at the core, and so I believe the core message has to do with Christianity.
@@Bi0Dr01d Also Metal Gear Solid 4 was heavily criticised for it's meta themes and old snake, but it is actually my favourite in the franchise for how *final* everything is in that game. Even though we've had like 3-4 more Metal Gears since then, I'll always see MGS4 as the final chapter no matter what. I think MGS4 is the only other piece of entertainment that has addressed the whole "sequels are bad" idea before and maybe people find that kind of pretentious, but I think it's a cool concept. I got a lot of MGS2 vibes with how that game tried to confuse you and question whether or not the game was only in a virtual reality or not.
@@NewOrderOfAlexandria out of all of the Metal Gear Solid video games, the one I find the most interesting is Metal Gear Solid 3 Snake eater. It's the game that blatantly shows its connection to the supernatural. Metal Gear Solid was my favorite game of all time, but there's something wrong in it that I should point out. In the beginning of the game, it says that "the boss" defected, and when Snake met with the boss and Colonel Vogan on the bridge, the boss threw snake over the bridge into the river. The reason why that's very important is because Colonel Logan is known for his powers of electricity, which is connected to Snake's defeat from the boss which caused him to descend into the water. Luke 10:18 - And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven. Under this context, it would seem that "the boss" represents God, implying that the game is trying to make God into a bad guy, and that would mean "Snake" represents Satan, and since we as the audience and game players are cheering this character on, it seems to be a way of causing us to inadvertently worship the Devil. You might doubt that this character Snake is Satan, but there's more proof. Snake was supposed to rendezvous with a man code named "Adam" but instead meets with "Eva" *(Adam and Eve from The Book of Genesis of the Bible).* This is definitely a reference to the Bible and does imply Snake is The Devil. His relationship with Eva also parallels the Book of Genesis, because Satan tricked Eve to eat from the forbidden fruit, causing her to sin. Also, if you look at the Cobra Unit, these characters have Supernatural connections. You have "The Pain", "The Fear", "The End", "The Fury, and the most obvious supernatural character, "The Sorrow". The sorrow represents death, 2 Corinthians 7:8-10 ¶For though I made you sorry with a letter, I do not repent, though I did repent: for I perceive that the same epistle hath made you sorry, though it were but for a season. 9Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing. 10For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: *but the sorrow of the world worketh death.* The sorrows character represents death itself, and the afterlife. "The fury" represent hell. The fear and the pain represents suffering and torment. The End seems to both imply an end of life and also the end of the world or biblical prophecy being fulfilled. And "the boss" being The Joy, the character who represents God. Nehemiah 8:10 - ...the joy of the LORD is your strength. The game makes God the villain and makes Satan the hero, so that we would fall in love with Satan and worship him without knowing it. This is not only the case in Metal Gear Solid alone, this seems to be a continual repeating message in all of these movies, television shows, and games we play. I'll even prove that with a link I'll share below. I also recommend subscribing to this channel. ua-cam.com/video/CXDEz-WCLs0/v-deo.html
@@micmorgan84 Heh, you're funny, Morgan lol. I kind of felt that the film was made the way it was on purpose. I had that feeling for various reasons, but then people started posting similar theories online, so I'm not alone in thinking that. I agree with what everyone's saying about the fight scene not being that good, or certain plot points weren't thoroughly explained, etc, but the movie actually responds to some of these objections within its own content, which is why I find the film interesting and why I do feel to some extent it was made the way it was on purpose.
This film had so many great ideas - but was too short to communicate everything, so it felt that it rushed up to wrap the movie. The Machines Energy war, the new symbiosis of machines and humans, the new city, the new construct of the matrix for efficient energy. This film should have been a trilogy by itself to have a good pace and rhythm.
This version of the matrix is the 7th version the number 7 is a very spiritual number. In Hinduism and Bhuddishm it is believed that there are 6-9 realms or realities. Each plane with its own set of laws and conditions. Since the matrix films are an allegory for the existence of consciousness within the perception of humans it’s plausible to believe that the real world is a simulation that operates independently within its own boundaries but fundamentally it is part of a cycle of domains. In hermetics the second universal law is that of correspondence - as above so below. Just like reincarnation and karma. What you do in this life affects what you become or what you do in the next life. The matrix and the real world represent the lower dimensions of reality i.e. hell, this correlates to the first three lower chakras: root chakra, sacral and solar plexus. Neo and trinity together represent the fourth chakra which is the heart chakra. Coincidence as this is the fourth movie. Number four also represents time, the fourth dimension. This is why in resurrections we see many cuts and flashbacks to the original trilogy, this represents the past. The 7th version of the matrix takes place in the modern day 21st century (present) and when Neo wakes up in the real world he learns that 60 years have past since he saved Zion (future). If you decode the matrix mathematically you see how intricate, metaphysical, profound and revealing each movie truly is and how transcendental the franchise is as a whole because it subverts expectations and challenges you to question your own existence and perception of reality. If you consider each movie in sequence then you see how each feature serves its purpose flawlessly. The first movie represents the number one: meaning perfection, originality, creation. This is why everyone loved the original film the most. It’s pedigree is undeniable, it will never be replicated or surpassed. There will never ever be a better matrix film then the first film. It is the one and only exception. The number two represents duality, instability, complication, again most people loathe matrix reloaded because it’s the middle chapter, it has no beginning nor end. The third film represents resolution, cohesion, finality. Metaphorically if the first film is “birth” second one is “life” then the third represents “death”. Just as easy as - 1,2,3. Resurrections represents four, meaning time, fourth dimension, quantum entanglement, multiverse, system & order, versatility, multiprocessing (neo running a module, subroutine within the matrix), repetition, four also represents a sequence. Like making a beat - and a one and a two and a three and four!” Just some food for thought.
Who’s to say they won’t expand on all those ideas with another movie or two? The original Matrix was exactly as you’re describing, and then they went and made two more…so it wouldn’t surprise me if Lana continues writing this story and develops these rich ideas
I loved the originals, but my expectations were tempered for a 4th. And sadly, this movie just didn't hold up. The problem is that the movie is so on the nose meta, it feels like it's looking down on me for wanting more of The Matrix. Geez, sorry I fell in love with your movies--I can understand the disdain towards the studio, but the audience is there for a movie. Also, I shouldn't need to know the directors entire life story to be able to appreciate their work. And this movie just wasn't that good. There were some good ideas, and some interesting twists. But I felt empty after watching it. Perfected the legacy sequel? I disagree. They "perfected" making a movie that critiques the notion of legacy sequels... But Lana's resentment about making one was such a dark cloud that she put into the movie that it just wasn't enjoyable. And believe me, I'm a big fan of the bigger matrix world. I'm not an action junkie, and I also thought the sequels we're a little underrated. But this was a mess... Glad other people enjoyed it. I wanted to though.
I felt the same, my bad for liking your previous trilogy, and not my fault i fell in love with the trilogy, and have issues with this movie compared to its previous storyline, casting, choreography and finally music...my bad
@@ybyby3rdday Didn’t Café for that part but the rest of it is sadly something I find correctly observed. I don’t think it’s necessary to go into the private lives to feel the 60 years of pain and torture that Neo and Trinity went through. That’s plenty of story for me.
You've summed up my thoughts exactly. Everyone who calls Matrix 4 a masterpiece seems to have one thing in common, that being self-referential and parodying itself is what elevates it. It isn't, not when the message to the audience is "You're foolish for wanting to watch the thing you're watching." While I have sympathy for what the Wachowskis have gone through, it should have no bearing whatsoever on the evaluation of the movie. This is a sci-fi fantasy story, not a documentary. If you want to see self-referential done correctly, watch Cobra Kai. When they got past this part and showed how the world evolved after Revolutions, that's when I got interested. Furthermore, reviewers who sing the praises of Matrix 4 fail to address all aspects of the movie. When discussing a storytelling medium like film, you cannot only talk about the story and neglect to evaluate how effectively the medium was used. There are many aspects that add up to effective use, such as: character design, set design, color palettes, shot composition, choreography, pacing, transitions, music, sound effects, and so on. If you don't address the things which make it a movie, you may as well be talking about a book. Matrix 4 had a decent enough story to tell, but did not have the complete package like the originals.
I too watched the original trilogy before watching Resurrections. It had been so many years and I sure appreciated them more. I didn't follow Resurrections promotion almost at all. When I sat down to watch it at cinema, I was left with "YES! This really spoke to me!", really shattering my expectations. I was honestly expecting bland... Well, legacy sequel, but Resurrections really blew my mind. Granted the weakest part was the action though XD
@@TheLunzDen shows your lack of intelligence. If you truly believe it’s impossible for the movie to be loved only because you didn’t get it is an extremely dumb way of thinking and is 100% wrong.
@@michaeldorsey1394 I hate that "you didn't get it" excuse... The last Matrix is an extremely shallow movie. Even its attempts at being self aware or meta are about as subtle as a brick to the face. As a fan of great works of fiction and psychological pieces that make you think, this is unequivocally NOT
I’ve only seen it once so far. Even though I think I have some problems with it, I still told all my friends walking out I’d take a sequel like this over sequels like Disney Star Wars.
Yeah, Resurection was a better sequel follow up to the originals then the disney sequels. However that really isnt saying much. Both sequel reboots are still terrible.
It's more artistically innovative then just a remake of the original movie with different characters (The Force Awakens and Jurassic World) agreed. That said, it's kind of a false dichotomy (remake v. this) . Blade Runner 2049 and Mad Max: Fury Road were wonderful legacy sequels that both updated and expanded the universe of the original (without doing that lazy soft reboot process). And I think there's an amazing fourth Matrix story that could be told that wasn't ...this.
The way I see it, The Matrix (1999) challenged our expectations of an action film. The Matrix Resurrections challenged our expectations of a Matrix movie by changing up the genre and style.
After hearing only bad things about the movie, it was a must for me to watch as I rarely care about the opinion of the masses and because I like to form my own opinion. I have to admit that I was pretty divided after the movie. I had also watched parts 1 - 3 again and was therefore fully involved in the topic. Just the fact that it made me think and all the flashback moments as well as the idea that Thomas Anderson is supposed to have invented the matrix and that the matrix parts were basically just games, I think it's terrific. I think I definitely have to watch the film more often, because I liked parts 2 and 3 more and more the more I saw them. Very nice and detailed video with even more facts I have to think about.
does the new movie really say the originals were just games or that neo was told they were games, and within the new matrix, they were planted as games he made so any memories he had would be attributed to him “making the game” as opposed to him actually having lived that life? ive heard people even in my circle that describe it as if the first 3 were just fantasy stories within the movie when i didnt get that vibe from this movie, more so implying after the third this one takes place
After my 3rd watch I liked it significantly better. I still have many issues with it but mainly because there were better routes that could have been explored. I put those expectations aside and just said okay it is what it is, we are going through a old love story with different scenarios. I think they should have began the 4th movie during the machine war whilst Neo tries to reunite with Trinity after learning she’s alive. I think the meta stuff wasn’t executed properly but I think on paper the script looked solid and why Keanu and others praised it before the release.
I'm just gonna lay out all my thoughts here since i already did a lot of this heavy lifting in a reply to another comment on this video. I went out thinking it was a 7, but my score has gradually gone down to a 5 since I've had time to reflect on the film and think about it all. This is going to be a long ass comment, but i have a lot to say, so anyways... To start off with: the characters. Bugs is a fucking plot device and not much else, and that's a damn shame. They could've actually done something interesting with her character, but all Lana really cared about was wanting to get Neo in Trinity's pants again so to speak, so Bugs got the shaft and was relegated to being the only driving force in the entire story after the first act, pushing Neo from set piece to set piece with no real care for his own input (which the film openly admits, the movie won't even let the audience come to that conclusion on their own; its fucking insulting to my intelligence). The only exception really out of the new/reworked cast that i thought was kinda well done is Agent Smith (i actually like what they did with him as far as repurposing his character goes), but everything else? 💩 I do like the world building done in this film, but a majority of it is ripped from the MMO, so i can't really credit this film for much of it. I'm just glad they didn't scrap their ideas. I also like the personal aspect of this film and how it ties into Lana's recent loss of her parents (its less philosophical and more so auto-biographical if that makes any sense, kind of like a Hideo Kojima game). This film is clearly a way for her to cope with their death, and I'm not gonna take that away from her. I don't think it improves the writing much, but it's still a cool aspect of the film. I don't have a problem with the idea of The Matrix doing a smaller-scale love story, but the problem I do have lies in the implications of everyone's actions in this film (that being that THIS STORY REALLY ISN'T AS SMALL SCALE AS FILM SPEAK IS TRYING TO SUGGEST). The new Matrix is destroyed now, and that pretty much means that all out war is sure to break out again between the machines and humans (except now with the help of the synthiants), and Neo and Trinity act like they don't have a fucking care in the world now, humanity be damned. They're going to go paint rainbows in the sky while humanity gets slaughtered i guess. Like, how does anyone not see an issue with that? Do they have a plan going forward on how they'll try to survive? Zion barely even survived the last war and it was only because Neo "sacrificed" himself to broker peace between the humans and machines, what makes you think Io is equipped to deal with this? If they're found, their colony is fucked. Why the fuck was it imperative that Neo and Trinity escape The Matrix? Bugs never really explains this because, again, she gets next to no character development in this film. Personally, it probably would've been more poetic had Neo and Trinity decided to stay in The Matrix together of their own volition after dealing with The Analyst if there wasn't going to be a follow-up to this film. You have to admit: THAT would've been a pretty bittersweet yet satisfying ending to The Matrix saga. Now obviously that couldn't work at all in the version of The Matrix 4 that Lana Wachowski ended up ultimately writing (due to how the massive power drawn from Neo and Trinity is based on proximity), but it could've maybe worked in a rewrite. There's more to this film than just its meta narrative and the broad strokes of its story, and THAT'S what people have a problem with. The first film understood this very well and made very carefully thought out decisions when it came to its story. Even the second film, to a lesser degree, is still pretty damn thought out when it comes to its surface level narrative, and the third (while the weakest of the three) gets to piggyback off the heavy lifting done in Reloaded and focus on the payoffs of the overarching narrative between the two films. I just can't say the same about Resurrections. Bugs was nowhere near as relevant as i thought she was going to be and has pretty much zero character development, the new Morpheus is also a glorified plot device (much like Bugs), the rest of the ship's crew are glorified filler characters who only exist to operate the ship and pull people in and out of The Matrix (they're nowhere near as fleshed out as characters like Link, Niobe, Locke or The Kid), the Architect was surprisingly incompetent (despite having such a busted ass power inside the new Matrix), and Trinity's "red pill" moment so to speak in the third act feels incredibly unprompted because the hints she's given are total ass. I can nitpick the flying scene where she catches Neo all day, but it's honestly just that: a nitpick. If that's how Lana wanted Trinity to awaken her powers or whatever, then fine. But to have it happen suddenly like that, with no suggestion before hand that she could be The One like Neo, is just blatantly awful writing. Neo didn't just start by fucking force pushing people and stopping bullets, he had to believe he could first and that took some time to accept. Trinity's was like the flip of a switch, and it feels unearned as a result. And don't get me started on the Merovingian. I could write an entire comment half as long as this about why that scene was so butchered and made zero sense for him to be there. I understand the significance of him being there from a meta-narrative perspective (he really served as a huge mouth piece for Lana in this film), but he's literally an exiled program. Isn't it dangerous for him to be there during that fight scene? I thought being Exiled means he's in hiding.
@@WareWolf831 Like i said: i thought the subtext was fine, but there's not enough actual substance in this film otherwise. Reloaded kinda had the opposite problem where i thought there wasn't enough meaningful subtext to chew on but the baseline story was pretty good. Granted, i watch films for the base story first and foremost, so i prefer Reloaded. I think its pretty decent and enjoyable to watch, and the premise behind the Architect is incredibly fascinating. This film is basically just as shallow as Revolutions, but with additional subtext. For people who watch these films only for the subtext, i can understand why they like this film, but i don't think that having ONLY good subtext makes for a good film. Even a de-constructive or heavily philosophical piece of fiction should have a good baseline plot for the audience to chew on, much like any sort of story. Parasite understood this, Metal Gear Solid 2 understood this (whereas MGS5 didn't), the Final Fantasy 7 Remake understood this, even something like Watchmen understands this. Resurrections does not get this, it's a very weak science fiction film compared to the other entries in the series, and what it does have to say in terms of subtext doesn't make up for the weak baseline story. This fourth entry in the series almost feels like a parody of a Matrix film (i've seen people bring up this point a lot), but its clearly meant to be a bona fide sequel rather than a deconstruction of the Matrix series in-universe. Lana Wachowski clearly didn't mean to parody her previous films, it's more so the opposite actually. This is undoubtedly an auto-biographical piece with pot shots at Warner Brothers and an attempt at a genuine love story between Neo and Trinity. Like Film Speak says, it was Lana's way of coping with the loss of her parents. She used The Matrix as a means of finding closure in her own life, rather than wanting to just continue the story for the story's sake.
I largely agree with you. It feels like a lot of the things done in this movie was done for the sake of doing it while ignoring a precedent already set. I do have a problem with how Trinity gains the One's powers for two reasons: they didn't have to remove powers from Neo for her to have them, and they could have easily explained how she got powers. Neo could have given her powers, he's able to manipulate the matrix. It could have been explained that because they were near each other for 60+ years she gained similar powers. But in the understanding of how Neo's powers work, it doesn't make sense that he lost the ability to fly. He's able to manipulate the code, the only factor that limits his power is his own beliefs. Why did they created a new Morpheus only to have him emulate traits of the original? Lawrence said that they didn't even invite him back, so then why not just have the person to re-ignite the One be someone different, why did it have to be Morpheus? How was Smith able to get around the bullet time but not Neo (who once again, can manipulate the matrix)? The Merovingian could have been replaced by any other character and it wouldn't have made a difference. I don't understand why they did what they did to his character, outside of showing how the wars affected him. He's no longer in favor of the machines and the humans of IO don't need him. I don't think that anyone can tell Lana how to process her grief, and that's not what I'm doing here, I just don't think this is what fans of the series who are into the lore of the Matrix want. It feels like they were stuck between a sequel and a reboot. Lots of half-assed reconning for no reason.
Another interesting aspect that I find beautifully expressed in the movie is the notion that even by doing something as 'legendary' and 'revolutionary' as Neo and Trinity in the original trilogy, you are just moving the needle of history forwards a tiny bit. Life goes on - humans and machines get a chance to co-exist, but that doesn't solve all problems, and may create new ones. There is never an 'ultimate victory/solution' to anything in life, it's an ongoing development.
@@ryokodeivisu Neo & Trinity barely changed anything in the 'real world' at the end of the first trilogy; 40 years later, Humans are Still enslaved by the fake dream world of the machines; and in the real world, humans are still on the run from the Machines - yes there were some Improvements but, overall, mankind is still NOT FREE .... not sure how you missed that part.
Yea, even from the beginning the Wachowskis have said that the trilogy comments on the Hegelian dialectic. Which when I asked what that was the simple answer given was "thesis-> antithesis-> synthesis, in other words it describes the movement of ideas throughout history as contradicting ideas come into conflict and emerge into a combination of the two, which then becomes its own idea which enters into further conflict. The dialectic is the conflict and resolution between these ideas. Hegel’s conception of history was idealist (I.e. ideas are what drives history) but Marx (and others) used his schema to describe a materialist conception of history (I.e. material conditions like class conflict are what drives history)." And I feel like Matrix Ressurections ends up putting that in the clearest terms. The first story was a clear black and white Human Vs Machines. But we learn that that divide was already unclear by learning that machines started out as the oppressed group and then that certain machines like the Oracle were helping humans break free from the cycle of everyone on Zion being annihilated every 100 years to keep the Matrix as a Prison in balance. Then in Restrictions the human and machine societies have synthesized. And the competing ideas between IO and the Analysts Matrix are still there and still produce conflict but are still seen as a small step forward from what was.
My first feeling after watching the film was a huge sense of relief that there was still a totally unapologetic love story at its core. For me, despite all the hype about technique and philosophy was the thing that made the original trilogy so unique for an action film. I then enjoyed the layers of interpretation similar to the original, I like that the new matrix is basically social media/facebook, fills your head with noise, the Merovingian complaining of the end of civility for tweets and facebook popularity (I don't think he is talking about the social media in the new matrix, I think he is describing the new Matrix itself), the therapist saying that if he keeps people unhappy and frustrated he creates more power. It is a shame some of the original cast were not there, I hear some actors "just couldn't fit it into their schedule" which sounds like a real shame, I would have thought it was worth waiting until they could get everyone they wanted. On the whole though I loved it.
Terrific comment! However, I love Groff as Smith, and Mateen II's Morpheus is just sooo funny, compelling while honoring Fishburn's Morpheus "Uno". Hey, not that I wouldn't have loved seeing Weaving back, though a reality check is needed regarding Fishburne: the guy's "widened" a whole lot in 17 years...;-P I loved the movie so much, and really enjoyed your post's honesty. Peace out
@@karmick Actually, the comment you rated here, is only evidence of how easy it is for Hollywood types to completely fool an audience, while communicating directly with individuals at large. What am I talking about? This movie is nothing but a rudely delivered confession of plagiarism, aimed at the person whose work (The Ciphermen) was handed to the Wachowskis in 1993.
I agree with pretty much everything you said, but there's one thing this film lacks: the martial arts. I know that's not the point of these films, but it's absolutely ingrained in the previous trilogy, so I really missed it here. But again, I agree that this film works, especially because it follows directly what happened in Revolutions. Personally, I'm gonna rewatch this on Wednesday at the cinema, aa it should be.
I must agree. The original trilogy had a lot of charisma and conveyed a feeling of awe in its choreographies. I believe Lana filmed those scenes here instead of leaving them to a second unit. I think it's admirable, but mistaken, to paraphrase Bane.
Combined with the meta criticism in matrix four about how people just reduce the matrix to gunz and fights, to me it almost felt like the martial arts were deliberately toned down here to make that point.
That depends. Prequels or sequels? I loooove the prequels; sequels are ok, yeah, meh. I'll watch the sequels again, someday. I watch The Prequels maybe 2x/ yr. Back to The Matrix: I LOVE "Resurrections"!
I think the 4th movie accurately expresses the current condition of humanity in the modern world, or at the very least in the western world. While most people like to think that they care about things such as truth, facts, evidence, freedom, liberty, morality and so on --- their actions and inactions in the world, seem to prove that all they truly care about, is how they feel and what they believe. We live in a world where fear, hatred, outrage, war, authoritarianism, etc are praised -- and those who do not want those things, are condemned. Humanity is in a phase of destruction and self destruction, not so much by guns, or bombs, or anything we might think of in the more traditional sense -- but rather, an increasing decline in maturity and mental health, as nihilism and hopelessness mixed with virtue signaling has become the standard. While in the long run, the human species may yet prevail -- in the short run, society is collapsing and that collapse will climax. I couldn't tell you the year or the month or the day, or the specifics of exactly what they will look like, only that it is obvious that it is well under way, and proceeding exponentially. Or as John Connor said at the end of Terminator Salvation, paraphrased -- judgment day was not something that could be stopped, the only thing we can do is survive it, and try to create a better world on the other side of it.
I'm with you. I went to the theater to see this movie and come out in awe..went on openings day first show to see it on the big screen I loved the trilogy and feel this one completed it..bring us back to what was to what is now thank you for putting in the best perspective and explaining it so other may understand...it's not about the money to be made but the story to be told again thank you
"This film has the philosophical and thematic richness of its predecessors". I mean, points for saying it with a straight face, but the original is a big story about the most important journey a person can take. This movie is a small story about a pointless journey in that context. I hope you got paid well to say such nice things about this movie. If you truly believe what you've said then I invite you to re-watch the original. Forget the action, it's fine and even groundbreaking for the time, but consider the philosophical implications. The scenario laid out in the matrix isn't necessarily true, but you can't prove it's not. It's Cartesian doubt and the central idea from Zen. The ultimate truth, whether we spend a single second of our lives considering it or not. What do we really know for sure. Compare that to the philosophy apparent in this movie. In a word, it's terrestrial. I will say that it was intriguing for a while. There was some courage present in the way he began to doubt and challenge his reality, but this quickly gave way to a cheap facsimile of the original.
@brandovlogs the original quote was 'philosophical and thematic richness'. I mean, well done for magically making the philosophy disappear. You weren't a writer on this movie were you?
i thought the first half of the film was pretty good and had genuine potential but i don't think it delivered in the end. i don't think its a bad film but i also don't think its good. to be honest im conflicted on it myself. there are some cool concepts that are never explored enough.
This version of the matrix is the 7th version the number 7 is a very spiritual number. In Hinduism and Bhuddishm it is believed that there are 6-9 realms or realities. Each plane with its own set of laws and conditions. Since the matrix films are an allegory for the existence of consciousness within the perception of humans it’s plausible to believe that the real world is a simulation that operates independently within its own boundaries but fundamentally it is part of a cycle of domains. In hermetics the second universal law is that of correspondence - as above so below. Just like reincarnation and karma. What you do in this life affects what you become or what you do in the next life. The matrix and the real world represent the lower dimensions of reality i.e. hell, this correlates to the first three lower chakras: root chakra, sacral and solar plexus. Neo and trinity together represent the fourth chakra which is the heart chakra. Coincidence as this is the fourth movie. Number four also represents time, the fourth dimension. This is why in resurrections we see many cuts and flashbacks to the original trilogy, this represents the past. The 7th version of the matrix takes place in the modern day 21st century (present) and when Neo wakes up in the real world he learns that 60 years have past since he saved Zion (future). If you decode the matrix mathematically you see how intricate, metaphysical, profound and revealing each movie truly is and how transcendental the franchise is as a whole because it subverts expectations and challenges you to question your own existence and perception of reality. If you consider each movie in sequence then you see how each feature serves its purpose flawlessly. The first movie represents the number one: meaning perfection, originality, creation. This is why everyone loved the original film the most. It’s pedigree is undeniable, it will never be replicated or surpassed. There will never ever be a better matrix film then the first film. It is the one and only exception. The number two represents duality, instability, complication, again most people loathe matrix reloaded because it’s the middle chapter, it has no beginning nor end. The third film represents resolution, cohesion, finality. Metaphorically if the first film is “birth” second one is “life” then the third represents “death”. Just as easy as - 1,2,3. Resurrections represents four, meaning time, fourth dimension, quantum entanglement, multiverse, system & order, versatility, multiprocessing (neo running a module, subroutine within the matrix), repetition, four also represents a sequence. Like making a beat - and a one and a two and a three and four!” Just some food for thought.
As a fan of the movies I think the movie is cool to watch but what you call revolutionary I call self-indulgent. felt like the first hour and 15 minutes was the director talking about the process of making a sequel and sequels and themselves and commenting on The matrix and rehashing the matrix and then we finally got a new movie after that.
Thr process to make a film with some studios who just want to milk your franchise is difficult. They were gonna make this sequel with or without the original writer, director and actors. Michael B Jordan was being eyed for it. Honestly I'd rather see the original vision intended for us rather than bring in another director who is gonna do what the studio wants and someone who didn't fully understand the lore of the series.
I think AT&T selling off Warner Brothers to the Discovery Channel can free up the Matrix franchise for more creative endeavors. I hope Resurrections is a start to greater things and I would like to see the Matrix universe move beyond Neo and Trinity with new stories and characters.
@@le_maxarus Why? Sure, the Whachowskis did not want a sequel to the trilogy. But when Lana got trust into the situation, she flowed like water. She choose to tell a story she wanted to tell if there must be another Matrix, instead of stepping aside and watch the studio silently suffocating her baby. When Valhalla calls, you answer and fight... that spark, that grind... isn't that what life all about? When Zion was free, Morpheus believed there work is done... yet the machine civil war sealed his fate... the work is never done. You can't stop as long as you breathe as life has the nasty habit of creeping up on you. If how hyped I am from seeing the film yesterday is any indication of where Lana is at after making it, she might be up for it. But that is her choice, and we will have to trust that. And be grateful for whatever ammo she and anyone with an impact on our life throw our way to push on with our own journey.
Dude WTF! You're so awesome. Finally some youtuber appreciates the movie instead of complaining nonstop. This has been the best review on UA-cam so far.
I didn't mind Resurrections but I didn't see it as something great. It was just okay with mainly ideas but the executions left a lot to be desired. I would have liked some ideas changed for the narrative and here are my thoughts. - Neo basically created a "backdoor" for what he remembers of Morpheus (supposedly). Yet he only has subconciously remembers fragments. Is that why Morpheus in his programmed iterations acts a little "loose" compared to how Morpheus was portrayed by Laurence Fishburne? Who introduced the changes? Was it the analyst knowing about the base code backdoor and it introducing the "missing elements" to complete this iteration of the Matrix? Or, was this changed caused by the modal loop and how the AI for Morpheus "evolved" in the modal? If it is due to the modal loop, it doesn't make sense if the atmosphere is based on Matrix 1. - I wish they really went with it if they really wanted to explore Neo being used by the Analyst as the "Base" or "source code" (as it were) for this new iteration of the Matrix. Instead of introducing it simply as a union of 2 parts (Neo and Trinity), I hoped instead to have seen that when Neo awoke, he would end up seeing clones of himself in various stages of development. And we get a reveal that we are only seeing the "Current" Neo husk being used while the other Neo husks are plugged into the Matrix living their lives unknowing they are clones of Neo because of DSI. Why would they need (younger) Clones of Neo? Well, supposedly unplugging "The One" from the Matrix will cause it to become unstable. What would happen when Neo ages/dies? They'd need a replacement. Hence why you'd need to plug in the "new" base husk as it were. And what about the mind of the younger husk to be used? We have our answer with Matrix 3, Smith injecting himself into living brains/people plugged into the Matrix, but just done more subtlely by the Analyst. And in this regard, is what makes Neo "The One" his body, his mind or a combination of both? If it was just his mind, then why bother with the clone when you can inject him to anyone else in a "prime" age/maturation. I think it would have been a nice thought exercise to introduce to the Matrix. - One major thought I also had and hoped they did instead was to introduce Trinity, with the DSI as well, but I hoped that the story would have instead revealed later on that Trinity is dead but whenever Neo is plugged into the Matrix he can manifest Trinity inside because, like Morpheus, Neo being the source code/base of the new Matrix of the Analyst, he'd be able to also create Trinity inside the Matrix as "the one he chose to save/love", yet he has no clear memory of her because of the blue pill dosing of the analyst. This would have been able to somewhat bring up the idea wherein even in death, the persons we love will always be a part of us. This will still be able to keep the 2 parts make the whole (ala One Winged Angel of him and her) to allow Neo to be "The One" again inside this new Matrix. The closer he is to his "missing code", the more his powers can be displayed. This would then explain why he wouldn't be able to fly without Trinity with him. A reverse Hancock idea if you will inside the Matrix. - Machine City and where the "human battery camp" is will not cover a whole continent by my guess with how the bodies are stacked. Supposedly this new iteration of the Matrix produces more energy with how it is programmed to feed off negative emotion (if I understood it correctly). Since it has also been at least 60 years since Matrix 3, I thought we would have found out there is another "instance" of the Matrix/Machine City running in another part of the world because of how the Analyst seemed to frame talking to the "suits" and performance. I would have supposed there is a point of comparison and not just historical performance only. So if say this is the US Matrix, could there be an EU Matrix? Asian Matrix? African Matrix? It would make sense especially since the Matrix as a world is able to be "co-populated" with bots and/or synthients. Just a thought.
Be honest. It's terrible and I don't say this because I wanted it to be. I wanted to be surprised and entertained. I wasn't. It's one of the worst movies I've seen in a long time.
@@miltonkiller707 i went in with spoilers already so i dont have trouble with references or callbacks. I had low to no expectations coming in to the movie. And i think that at least help make it digestible as an okay movie. I didnt care whether it existed or not nor do i have any desire to rewatch it.
There was some cool new ideas but the main thing that stuck out like a sore thumb for me was the action. There is not one memorable action sequence in this entire movie that comes close to anything in the other movies. You got the lobby scene in the first one, the great hall and highway scene in Reloaded, and the defense of Zion and the great Neo vs Smith fight at the end of Revolutions. Name one scene from Resurrections that comes close. The action was a bunch of quick cuts and you could barely tell what was happening.
I’d say the most memorable action scene was the swarm towards the end. But I enjoyed it all. The suits chasing Bugs at the beginning, the reintroduction of Smith and Neo, their little sequence in the abandoned building, the Tokyo train, the swarm. There was a lot of memorable action moments. The reason that they don’t feel as impactful is because Lana put more emphasis on the story she was telling by alleviating the danger by not killing off any of the new crew. She even poked fun by giving the line of dialogue between the two new crew members. They talked about how during Neo’s quest to save Zion that he got almost all of his crew members killed and finished it off with “yeah, we’re definitely gonna die” or something to that effect. Also stylistically they shot the action differently. The cameras were not still long shots like the original Trilogy, but that’s not a problem seeing as the tone of this movie was very different.
The Sheeple always want the same Herculean story fed to them over and over again, even if it means sacrificing creative freedom and creating something new. This movie is an allegory to that very concept. Emotional manipulation, childhood egotism. We as human beings live vicariously through our experiences, we imagine ourselves as the characters on an unconscious level. This is the emotional construct that so many movies emulate to control our emotions; in reality there is very little substance in nearly every modern production. I had a revelation whilist drinking two Steel Reserves 211's and watching the Chronicles of Riddick reboot. Why was I enjoying this movie? Simply put, I came to the realization that it was because I saw myself as Riddick himself and was vicariously living through the experience and thereof the excitement of being Riddick himself. Only to realize, that this is a mental construct and has little to do with reality. People go to the movies to experience a sense of escapism from reality, to live vicariously through characters such as John Wick as if they would've taken the same actions as he did in that given situation. The audience projects themselves onto the character as if they were TRULY living out the fiction they are experiencing. This is why the hero's tale has become an expectation; our childhood egos search for that affirmation even though we ourselves have become disillusioned as adults. We long for a return to our childhood selves and the fairytales that are all too familiar. So in a sense, you can logically argue that The Matrix Resurrections is a bad movie by those standards. It fails to provide an immersive escapism into fantasy. Instead it does the lateral opposite, it offers you the Red Pill. It offers you the human experience of being the observer of something greater. It gives you the human experience and a hopeful ending that summarizes what it means to be human. Creativity, to think and grow outside of your boundaries. The universal force of gravity which we call love... At first I was disappointed in the final sequence. I had expected a final anime-esque battle between good VS evil; instead I got something unexpected and refreshing. This at first, left me feeling disappointed that it was the final act to The Matrix. The final boss was against a cold lifeless machine, a helicopter flown by a pilot that lacked any free will. However, I realized the true beauty of the message. The more time goes by after I watched the film, the more I've grown to appreciate it and its beautiful ending. I've been searching for ways to contact Lana to express my gratitude and the inspiration the film has brought in my personal life as a creative force. Poetically enough, she has no social media account that I could find and I can only hope this message can somehow reach her.
I enjoyed Matrix 4 but it had a lot of flaws to it. Some small details like Trinity knowing how to fly randomly and some story problems... but all in all, it was a very enjoyable experience
@@robobrando And it never will be explained how Neo knows how to fly just like how it will never be explained how operators know how to read the matrix code
@@robobrando The whole point of become the One is that you can manipulate the code of the matrix, that's how he can fly. He's not limited by the creators programming.
Man thank you so much for this video! I've seen peeps repeatedly complain about Resurrections and I'm like... Do you even know why this film was made? Did we watch the same film???? So yeah, thank you for pointing out its brilliance and please .. SAY IT LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK!!
Good vid. With you on most everything - especially regarding The Matrix Resurrections... Where we have a HUGE disagree is on The Last Jedi. To me, and I believe time will bear this out, TLJ is one of the greater Star Wars films in the entire canon.
Hmm...gonna hard disagree on that last bit. I don't think it fits in with Lucas canon. None of the Sequels do imo. That said, I almost feel like TLJ is a good standalone movie. If it was a "What If" scenario, or an alternative universe. I think its very well-made, and I enjoyed a lot of the Rey/Kylo stuff, but I just don't think its good for Star Wars as a whole.
@@rayvonvelez3129 Wow... Y'all get all sure get pressed attempting to define/own/defend the "Lucas canon" up in here... Okay, discard my term canon then. OF THE NINE FILMS from Phantom to Rise, TLJ is one of the very best films of the bunch. Period. And it will only GROW in appreciation and status - as it already is (similar to Empire) - as time goes on... Don't take my word for it. Just watch. History will be very kind to it.
Thank you for this! I know that movies get repackaged many times, in a "money grab", as you said. But I did not feel that way with this movie. Looking at all the negative reviews it has received, I feel disheartened that maybe a lot of people did not approach with an open mind. I appreciate your positive approach, and wish more movie reviewers would try to remain a bit more positive.
I approached the movie with an open mind 5 times already. There are some cool ideas but I can’t get myself to say the movie is good when it’s petty existence makes my head ache. Everything that made the old trilogy great was either completely missing or changed for the worse in M.IV. There was no cool action, no well-made combat scenes, neo just spams “expelliarmus”, the cgi looks much worse than 22 years ago, smith&morpheus are parodies of the original and the meta comedy just gets more annoying the more often you watch it. The ending sucks ass, many things don’t make a whole lot of sense which is painful considering how well thought-through the originals were. Resurrections itself tells you in the opening act that it was made “for those who love to eat shit” and personally I’m not a huge fan of shit.
@@DevonRyeTheDragonfly see. No offense but, idiot level response. "There wasn't enough cool action!" Smh. Cant help these folks. Mentally obtuse. The films have never been about cool action scenes. Its always been about the dialogue. Always. Smh. Over your heads. Leave us alone with your baby talk.
This version of the matrix is the 7th version the number 7 is a very spiritual number. In Hinduism and Bhuddishm it is believed that there are 6-9 realms or realities. Each plane with its own set of laws and conditions. Since the matrix films are an allegory for the existence of consciousness within the perception of humans it’s plausible to believe that the real world is a simulation that operates independently within its own boundaries but fundamentally it is part of a cycle of domains. In hermetics the second universal law is that of correspondence - as above so below. Just like reincarnation and karma. What you do in this life affects what you become or what you do in the next life. The matrix and the real world represent the lower dimensions of reality i.e. hell, this correlates to the first three lower chakras: root chakra, sacral and solar plexus. Neo and trinity together represent the fourth chakra which is the heart chakra. Coincidence as this is the fourth movie. Number four also represents time, the fourth dimension. This is why in resurrections we see many cuts and flashbacks to the original trilogy, this represents the past. The 7th version of the matrix takes place in the modern day 21st century (present) and when Neo wakes up in the real world he learns that 60 years have past since he saved Zion (future). If you decode the matrix mathematically you see how intricate, metaphysical, profound and revealing each movie truly is and how transcendental the franchise is as a whole because it subverts expectations and challenges you to question your own existence and perception of reality. If you consider each movie in sequence then you see how each feature serves its purpose flawlessly. The first movie represents the number one: meaning perfection, originality, creation. This is why everyone loved the original film the most. It’s pedigree is undeniable, it will never be replicated or surpassed. There will never ever be a better matrix film then the first film. It is the one and only exception. The number two represents duality, instability, complication, again most people loathe matrix reloaded because it’s the middle chapter, it has no beginning nor end. The third film represents resolution, cohesion, finality. Metaphorically if the first film is “birth” second one is “life” then the third represents “death”. Just as easy as - 1,2,3. Resurrections represents four, meaning time, fourth dimension, quantum entanglement, multiverse, system & order, versatility, multiprocessing (neo running a module, subroutine within the matrix), repetition, four also represents a sequence. Like making a beat - and a one and a two and a three and four!” Just some food for thought.
The first Matrix film was spectacular in a lot of ways but wasn't everyone's cup of tea. Many were drawn by the effects and action but not particularly by its philosophical underpinnings. It took years of discourse and undeniable influence to cement its reputation. Reloaded and Revolutions had their fair share of hate, dislike and dissatisfaction. Interestingly, they seem to sit comfortably well today than they did before. The wow factor has mostly been the top selling aspect of The Matrix films despite the fact that there's more meat to them, which understandably, has its dedicated fanbase or 'devotees'. Resurrection feels familiar yet different in interesting ways. With all that massive hate or dislike, I have the feeling many are going to have to eat their hats--especially upon further consideration or potential sequel that sheds more light on the creative choices or direction.
I sat in theaters and watched the original Matrix film multiple times, I don't remember all this negative reception. I don't recall seeing people "warm up" to it's philosophies.
@Shieldsy I don't care about Marvel 😂 I haven't seen any of the Tom Holland films. I only care about the upcoming Spider-Verse movie! I've seen Matrix Resurrections three times and it's still amazing. How much something sells isn't the only indicator of its worth.
I really liked the first half of Matrix Resurrections - the machines joining humans, building new Zion. The second half had some questionable moments but overall I liked the film a lot.
I thought the film was great. It's one you have to watch several times to really appreciate. So many great ideas and a beautiful love story right in the middle of it. So difficult to try and make a sequel to the last that makes sense and still interesting. I absolutely loved the way they brought them back. If you truly hated it just TRY and give it another chance while asking how in the hell you would write this if asked
Once the story was explained I could see it’s brilliance but when I watched it I thought it was garbage. I think it’s because I they didn’t quite execute it well.
She stepped in before WB Made it without her. The fact that she used the film to mention and critique WB is what made this awesome. As well as talk about other things
I agree but I would extend it because she criticizes many relevant things from internet troll comments (Swarm mode) to how capitalism is endlessly adaptable and can even cash in on the things that criticize it (they took all that you achieved and turned it into something as trivial as a video game). It's also a critiqu of movie audiences watching things at face-value and only ever peeling away the first layer of the onion, if at all and not getting the deeper messages a film wants to tell because they're prioritizing all the wrong things like mindless action.
@@Lia-uf1ir yes that line yes, it was a stand out. I agree, their seems to be a lack of analysis. I get why people were looking for action, (which they got) but there was so much more. Ah well. In a few year maybe ppl will look back and see the extra layers. We can only hope
@@HeyHeyForMe I have hope given that Reloaded and Revolutions were similarly hated on when they came out. Also, the lack of analysis that you mentioned is actually what the merovingian criticizes in his cameo, if you listn closely.
@@Lia-uf1ir That's really astute. Perhaps you've come across the following response, perhaps not. A little over three years ago, some obscure channel posted a video which might have caused all of this. Seek out Milton Killer's Matrix Easter Eggs and follow the video links. You have to pay attention and read stuff, though. There's a video with a Larry Wachowski confession and another one debunking a fake victim. Watch the latter first, and you could be looking at what got under Larry Wachowski's skin, causing him to #^+@ up big time with this choler fueled personal statement called Matrix Resurrections. There's nothing worse than an emperor with no clothes, challenged to prove itself -- publicly!
This was not a great film experience for me. It honestly felt like a fan fiction screen play. Nobody dies, so upon replay there’s absolutely zero tension or risk. And suddenly Keanu Reeves isn’t capable of holding a gun? There was so much firearm foreplay in the first film, and here they have John Wick at their disposal and all he can do is force push? Just wow. Don’t tell me you weren’t missing Lawrence Fishburn and Hugo Weaving. What they attempted in those two actors’ absence was so weak. Thomas’s development partner TRIES to deliver a few Agent Smith/ Hugo Weaving lines with such weak results they literally have to flash Hugo lip syncing even as the guy is talking. Btw what happened to the story line of that character? He just leaves the screen? Nearly all of the crew are cookie cutter and forgettable. I STILL can picture in my mind TWENTY years later Tank zapping Cypher for killing his brother Dozer and spits on his corpse. I can still see Switch and Apoc collapsing when they’re fatally unplugged.. and I can picture mouse “the digital pimp hard at work” trying to sell Neo time with the simulated woman in the red dress while they all slurp down amino acid goop. What character development was there with any of the new crew of this film. Was there any? The new partnership between the human city IO and the machines was a great idea and the best new element of this fourth film, but Niobe’s character was uninteresting, poorly acted and underwhelming in my opinion. Btw “channeling a catharsis into a story” isn’t in itself a good thing. Lana had a responsibility to Matrix Trilogy FANS. Instead she chose to write her diary onto the cinematic screen. While it’s valid in its own right, it’s completely unsatisfactory for the vast majority us who LOVE the Matrix story and did such a disservice to our favorite characters. I loved the idea of Trinity being the “other one”, but she had literally so little time with any powers or action in this film, she was wayyy more of a Bada$$ in the first two films without the powers of The One! What a letdown! Imagine if we had gotten even a third of the film with Trinity being completely unstoppable. Yes please. This film needed way more development and should’ve been made in 2010. What a letdown! Personally I intend to pretend it doesn’t exist and continue to watch the trilogy and let the story end there in my mind. Where it absolutely should have. 3/10 for me.
You're right, they could have done so much more with Trinity, but think about it, they could have done a lot more with Neo as well. Could you imagine if he would have gone through a few downloads of Kung fu and gun mechanics? And then brought in Trinity to be his anchor, like in the first movie? Neo could have redeveloped his powers and then taught Trinity how to wield them in some kind of training, where she could have been a natural badass as she was in the first 3 movies. The point is, they had John Wick and Neo and they did nothing in this film, and the reason for that is quite simple, if they had, everyone would be talking about it, and the bullshit they wanted to empress on the public would have been lost. So no fight scenes of any caliber and only a carbon copy of Morpheus. Like everything in our world today, they want to take the testosterone out of it. That is why even the love scenes are not as moving as the ones in the first 3 movies.
I liked the film. I liked that it subverted the fanboy expectations. It was a red pill meta commetary on a few subjects, the hollywood machine, the expectations of audiences, and nostalgia. I also appreciate that this was Lana's cathartic creation to help her cope with a familial tragedy. Resurrections is not an attempt to start more sequels. It is a thoughful epilogue to the trilogy, and gives us a nice peek into the aftermath of Neo's sacrifice. Neo and Trinity are now ONE.
I just now finished it and I gotta admit it was a decent movie and it wasn't all bad like the mainstream audience said about it. These days I judge the movie after I finish watching it and I form my own opinion. It was interesting because the psychologist resurrected neo and it was an all new take on the matrix story after the death of neo and the resurrections of the matrix and neo in general. I do hope there is a 5th one and maybe in the next one neo and trinity become mentors to the next ones that become the main heros but it's just an idea.
I think a lot of the "Fanboys" wanted a "return to form" and were disappointed, complaining that it was a "cash grab," without knowing or caring about Lana's real reasoning behind the themes of the film.
@@numb3r5ev3nThe fanboys didn't want a new movie at all because they knew it was going to be a shitshow like this movie. Nobody asked for a 4th movie, the story was finished. And with this pseudo-criticism of the movie studios, which is so obvious and stupid, they didn't do themselves any favors either. Luckily the movie failed so badly that WB will probably never think about making another one.
That's the DUMBEST thing I've heard in a long time! NO Matrix fan wanted this sequel. It was more unwanted by fans, than Jason Bourne was by Bourne Trilogy fans! I think just like Bourne fans would have rather seen Aaron Cross or another Treadstone agent, we would have seen another group in the Matrix on a different quest. Stop blaming shit movie's and scripts on "fan expectations".
"The Matrix Resurrections is a bunch of really good ideas stacked together to make a bad - and sometimes ugly - film" - someone from IGN. Couldn't say better myself. The first Matrix is still unbeatable for me.
Yeah yeah, I get all what Lana was going for with this film, personally and meta wise. She just didn't quite stick the landing. "Everything looks terrific thanks to twenty-plus years of advancements in effects work." Then why do the effects in this film look ten times cheaper than they did in the first film? Not to mention the lackluster hand-to-hand fight scenes that have no style or panache.
I'm starting to wonder if this effect was intentional. Almost like its designed to satirize the fight sequences. It has an unsatisfying feeling because they're trying to repeat the same thing again as they do in sequels. Then there is the fact that they are in the new Analyst version of the matrix, or at least the "off-grid" version that Neo and Trinity are in. Which could imply that physics in the world don't work the same way. He even mocks the bullet time effect and uses it to antagonize the heroes.
I'll give you that the fight scenes don't have as good choreography or inspired camera work... but why does everybody say the effects aren't good? Everything looks fine in this movie, effects-wise. Better than a lot of stuff in Reloaded, anyway. I had no problem with the CGI or action sequences on an effects level. What looked cheap?
@@AWSVids when the bugs character was jumping in the beginning of the movie and doing flips. The pods also looked cheaper compared to the first one and when neo was getting transported by the flying robot thing. And that small robot
@@Kalopsia666 it’s the best written story in the entire series by far. Go read Descartes meditations 1-4, brush up on your numerology and Zoroastrian dualism concepts and then go watch it again. This video barely began to scratch the surface.
I agree is meticously thought out and executed, as all the previous ones, people seem to dissmiss it too hastily, like it is fast food and not a piece of art. In some years, perhaps it will be another cult movie or a classic. Really great analysis here, spot on.
I agree. #MatrixResurrections is a #pieceOfArt not fast food for masses. Funnily enough in the same line of thought if you remember the dialogue in between Neo & the new Ag. Smith in his office, they speak of exactly this. Similarly when the Analyst mentions what drives the masses "desire & fear", not quality. Also, this analysis is beautifully done.
@@imsentinelprime9279 That´s exactly what we mean: that is such a lame commentary, not even close to a thought out critique, and some how bots like this "think" they have an understanding of the movie they couldn´t even see because of their own consumer expectatives. Which is precisely one of the themes of the movie.
@@juanverde1361 I am obsessed with the old Matrix movies and I didn’t like this one at all. I prefer movies that make me think but I could just watch the original Matrix and get a superior experience. Just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should. Matrix 4 is a perfect example of that.
This movie is complicated for me. After watching it the first time I was completely disappointed thought it was horrible. But it left me thinking and questioning it so much that I was compelled to watch it again. After the second viewing I really enjoy it. It's not perfect but the ideas that this movie presented are very interesting. It's has more philosophical points than 2 and 3. They definitely could have left out the flashback clips from the previous movies.
What are you even talking about. You haven’t understood the movies if you believe Resurrections makes more philosophical points than Reloaded. Reloaded was the single most philosophical out of all of them. Resurrections confuses modern left wing identity politics with philosophy. Reloaded was about causality, the illusion of free will and the philosophical deconstruction of prophecy, good & evil and multi-layered meaning. The scenes with the merovingian, the oracle and architect flew right over people’s heads and still to this day the *vast* majority people don’t seem to understand what’s going on in Matrix II. This movie, Resurrections, lacked all the subtlety that made things in the trilogy interesting. People with specific life experiences and knowledge of philosophical and scientific concepts loved the subtlety, they loved hearing the architect or the Merovingian talk about these concepts while others didn’t even have the awareness span required to listen. And even if they did listen to most it would as new morpheus so eloquently put it just be a bunch of “blah, blah, blah”. Resurrections is in your face about everything. Since people in our world still don’t understand anything about science, their own conscious experience and the nature of things, now Warner Bros. feel like they have to remind you directly, three times in the movie that there’s no choice. In the old trilogy they were MUCH more clever and subtle about these kinds of things. This movie is a fuck you to everyone, including to people like you who just “love to eat shit”. This movie is the cheapest version of the Matrix by far and when it comes to EVERY aspect. As someone who understands consciousness and the most relevant philosophical and naturalistic concepts I don’t want someone to wave their finger and explain things that shouldn’t even be explained to someone who already understands anyways. I loved the “hidden” symbols, the subtlety and the paradoxical opposition of inner and outer world, the metaphorical explanations for the properties of consciousness, the debate of causality vs. free agency and the fact that these concepts are so differentiated that even if they are resolved people don’t really get it if they don’t get it. I watched the trilogy many many many times until I got most of what was going on. It took me watching Resurrections twice to get everything and I still watched it 3 more times just because I wanted to like the movie. All I experienced was more annoyance with the way it is blatantly written, the meta comedy and the butchering of Morpheus, Smith & Neo as well as the general butchering of one of the most iconic franchises ever.
@@DevonRyeTheDragonfly Thank you for wasting your time on a dummy like me with the 4 paragraphs. With that said your comment is full of TRUTH. I agree with a lot. Matrix reloaded is my favorite Because of my time and place. Its hard to choose the best they all are connected. The original is Geneisis. Anyway in modern times with resurrections it addresses ideas with bots/ npc "soulless body's" used to distract us. Medicine / pharmakeia used to numb us and hold us back make us dependent and slaves. And the analyst use of fear and pleasure to control the sheeple. I see it all around our "real" world so that resonates. I like the ideas of the new movie but i agree it could have been executed better. But o well it's what we got. Move on and make lemonade out of the lemons.
@@DevonRyeTheDragonfly I wish I could give you a sticker for your monologue. It was chaotic and a terrific waste of time, just like the movie. Very meta.
Problems with The Matrix Resurrections: - Story was not interesting at all - Dialog was terrible and very cringe at times. - Fight choreography was terrible (You know you have a problem when Cobra Kai has better fight choreography than the Matrix).
No. You can give this same speech, exactly the same for reloaded and/or revelations. This did not have to be retold. Times, technology and arcance/outdated views will ALWAYS change generationally. A good story for me would have been the glossed over story about how the lack of resources caused infighting among the machines. How Neo kept failing at his reboot and the revelation of the need for Trinity. How the machines formed alliances with the humans. How Sati's parents were mislead which lead to their purge. The fall of zion and the rise of IO, etc. The story was there..... it just wasnt told.
I like the Matrix 4, but some things are lazy here: fight scenes (are bad) and a bit of cgi. this is a small matrix movie for millions of dollars. I love the soundtrack. 7+/10
Somehow all these opinions in the comments have a resemblance with the game bot team....sorry. It's so easy to like or not like, because we want more or it was too much.... It was all a matrix should be! this is the proof. It will go through the test of time and will resonate with many people who have lived so much through out these years. Life hits you when you dare to live, but that's what makes you feel alive. " It's so much simpler to bury reality then it is to dispose of dreams." It's faithful but definitely not just more of the same. It's new and fresh and it elevated the story. This movie made me feel many things...Lana is a master at her craft.
{Life hits you when you dare to live, but that's what makes you feel alive. " It's so much simpler to bury reality then it is to dispose of dreams."} Selenia, I call jinx cuz, impossibly, I said that line all in my head @ "Life...", raised my head and thought that whole line cuz your line of thought slid me there, and I was thinking of the Classic bathroom scene with the genius quote. Then I read on and was like W H A T !? ;-) Kismet, woah. And I agree, "Resurrections " elevates the story. Gr8 film! Luv your comment.
After watching Sophie from Mars video analysis of the original trilogy and seeing it through a trans lense it’s impossible to not see all the symbolism and appreciate the movie so much more.
Loved this film. The Matrix is kin to the dangling carrot society keeps chasing vs connecting within to their soul. 🥕🐇 🕳 Example: Neo and Trinity’s Divine soul connection. Too many just didn’t get it. Sign of the times.
Yup. My thoughts exactly. You have to know Buddhism, Numerology And the basics of Zoroastrian dualism to even say you’ve watched the matrix resurrections. A genius level film that is so alienating to its audience that it won’t be seen as a masterpiece for years to come.
Thank you for putting this into words and a well crafted video...as a matrix fan I loved the film in the context of the original films, the director and our present day circumstances, if they never make another one then at least this was a great way to end it
When people heard there was a new Matrix movie coming, they were reminded of the feeling they got watching the unique original, and expected two decades worth of progress in visual effects, and perhaps the maturation of the creators of the original movie, to present something spectacular, or at the very least, making some form of progress. This new movie serves only as confession. It proves the writer had nothing to do with the success of that original movie. Firstly, right off the bat, we are introduced to a concept relegating the original trilogy to nothing more than a video game! Of all the contemptuous things to do, this was the worst choice. Remember a decade or so back when VR and AAA video games were a fad? People expected that some time soon, games would mimic movies: that you would be able to choose how to navigate through a movie level narrative. That didn't quite pan out. Video games proved to be a separate genre, despised even by connoisseurs of cinema. The two mediums are completely incompatible and deliver different highs and responses. Games are forgettable mishmashes of the latest gaudy CG graphics, exploiting visual effects to the point of irrelevance. That the writer of the fourth Matrix movie relegated the original in the prescribed way is tantamount to disowning it, and why would they do that? Moving on, we were taken directly out of the so-called narrative to be told that Thomas Anderson was in a dispute with the studio over who wrote which line! Then we are told that the studio threatened to continue the story without the writers! Why? Why take this odd path? These are manifestations of the writer's subconscious thoughts. If it was just a random choice, it wouldn't have been augmented by The Merovingian's cameo, which we will get to in a moment. At this point, it seems as though the writer is distancing himself from the originals. It's almost preparing the audience to accept the shoddy craftsmanship to come - explaining clearly that the original was based on the work of someone else. We get some insight into this from the comments of Andy Wachowski, who excused himself from proceedings, citing commitments to another project at the time (2019). Andy Wachowski publicly stated that he hopes this new movie would be better than the original! Hmm. Really? Why? Wasn't the original movie his most successful enterprise? Why would he believe that what we got in 2021 could be better than the original Matrix? Lo and behold, prompting a cruddy fight sequence, The Merovingian shows up, looking down on his luck (from the writer's perspective), frothing at the mouth about something. Uncanny it is. He's complaining about having his unfinished work squandered! Are you starting to get the picture here? Now, some people believe the movie is a tongue in cheek middle finger at Warner Brothers. They couldn't be more deluded. There's no way on earth that Warner Brothers would allow it. They are aware that this attitude was directed toward an individual. Warner Brothers, in the movie, alongside The Merovingian, represents the person whose stolen work made The Wachowski's fame and fortune. How can we determine this? Well... if you pay attention to the marquee slide scene, when "Bugs" negotiates a sign reading: "Anderson's," you get a glimpse into what the writer is actually thinking. The sign reads: "Anderson's" and is subtitled: "For all those who eat shit." "Eat shit" is highlighted in bold. Does this sound like a middle finger at Warner Brothers to you? We have: 1) A writer named "Anderson" discussing which lines belonged to whom 1a) An excuse about having to do a fourth movie, because the story would be continued one way or another 2) A hidden message: "Anderson's" and the barb: "Eat shit!" 3) A cameo of an old character who looks like he's been doing just that, complaining about having his work squandered. This is a repost. After reading how easily swayed you were, I felt it my duty to open your eyes a little.
@@ParanormalMetalMan Really, I don't see how anyone could, but each to his own I guess. The point I am making is that shameless plagiarism of an unprotected work, as opposed to inspiration from established publications, is both wrong, and proof that the writer of the new movie has zero talent and no right at all to be making these movies. If you do care enough to want to see the humble effort upon which the Wachowskis falsely made names for themselves, what you're looking for is called The Ciphermen (as in the character "Cypher" who they created as a tongue in cheek barb). For me, as it seems also for them, this actual fact distances the original 1999 movie from all that followed.
The concept of the matrix is super meta. This movie has in your face meta moments (you know what scene I’m talking about), but we can’t forget that the matrix is inherently meta and always has been.
This version of the matrix is the 7th version the number 7 is a very spiritual number. In Hinduism and Bhuddishm it is believed that there are 6-9 realms or realities. Each plane with its own set of laws and conditions. Since the matrix films are an allegory for the existence of consciousness within the perception of humans it’s plausible to believe that the real world is a simulation that operates independently within its own boundaries but fundamentally it is part of a cycle of domains. In hermetics the second universal law is that of correspondence - as above so below. Just like reincarnation and karma. What you do in this life affects what you become or what you do in the next life. The matrix and the real world represent the lower dimensions of reality i.e. hell, this correlates to the first three lower chakras: root chakra, sacral and solar plexus. Neo and trinity together represent the fourth chakra which is the heart chakra. Coincidence as this is the fourth movie. Number four also represents time, the fourth dimension. This is why in resurrections we see many cuts and flashbacks to the original trilogy, this represents the past. The 7th version of the matrix takes place in the modern day 21st century (present) and when Neo wakes up in the real world he learns that 60 years have past since he saved Zion (future). If you decode the matrix mathematically you see how intricate, metaphysical, profound and revealing each movie truly is and how transcendental the franchise is as a whole because it subverts expectations and challenges you to question your own existence and perception of reality. If you consider each movie in sequence then you see how each feature serves its purpose flawlessly. The first movie represents the number one: meaning perfection, originality, creation. This is why everyone loved the original film the most. It’s pedigree is undeniable, it will never be replicated or surpassed. There will never ever be a better matrix film then the first film. It is the one and only exception. The number two represents duality, instability, complication, again most people loathe matrix reloaded because it’s the middle chapter, it has no beginning nor end. The third film represents resolution, cohesion, finality. Metaphorically if the first film is “birth” second one is “life” then the third represents “death”. Just as easy as - 1,2,3. Resurrections represents four, meaning time, fourth dimension, quantum entanglement, multiverse, system & order, versatility, multiprocessing (neo running a module, subroutine within the matrix), repetition, four also represents a sequence. Like making a beat - and a one and a two and a three and four!” Just some food for thought..
@@master-of-mind5881 love your take on it all. Only The matrix franchise and west world (of what I’ve seen so far) have actually made me think about our own perception of reality
@@superdrewper7883 What you are looking for is called The Ciphermen. It's an extremely amateurish fanfic style comic book proposal script which was handed to the Wachowskis in 1993. Once you study the work, you will realize that the Wachowskis have absolutely zero talent. You'll also begin to appreciate what the fourth movie is actually about.
I hate that you are going to get so much hate for a well articulated and valid review of this movie. I didn't hate it, just the horrible cgi background for the sati scenes. I'll chalk it up to covid though.
It reminds me in that regard on the third season of Twin Peaks. Lynch has been pressured for 25 years to follow up and give closure. When he did, he did it on his terms. Not giving the Twin Peaks of old, but a changed one. A Twin Peaks that reminds us of the old one, but doesn't use it's nostalgia to comfort us, but to take us on a new journey - and it doesn't care if we like it or not. Lynch just continued the Story the way he needed to do, without intervention of the studios. I have to say that I don't know if I like Matrix 4 so far. I don't dislike it. I can clearly see that it is not a cash grab, but an attempt to continue the series in a unique and personal way. I just don't know if I get the message it's trying to send out. Maybe I need more time.
Excellent review. Hopefully more people will see this. Just like the originals there are so many layers of meanings in these films. Part 4 was almost perfect imo. Thank you again for this breakdown.
@@sladewilson9741 Honestly bro no he’s not his opinion is his opinion and his opinion is right because it’s his opinion sure you can think it’s crap that’s your opinion which that opinion is also right because it your opinion
You seem too young to say things like this scene was a dream sequence for a legacy sequel. Especially when it's about such a bad legacy sequel. This movie felt like a Netflix spinoff.
I honestly couldn’t disagree more. This movie takes all the bad parts of reboots and sequels and shoved it all together, it’s like someone was like hmm should we do a reboot or make a sequel then said fuck it and tried to do both🤣🤣
it wasn't terrible but it only left me with one question after watching - why? it really wasn't necessary and it really felt like a nostalgia bait cashgrab, especially for me who rewatched the trilogy for the n-th time aswell before watching 4. Hell, the trailer made me think and speculate more than the movie itself with snippets that seemed like something out of a great film only to turn out a dud. The only thing I guessed right was Trinity being the one and that's the only real positive I found from that angle. Sure, it was nice to see jabs at hollywood and some other concepts tossed around in the film, but why do I need to know the directors biography spanning these 20 years to "get it" when other films, even the greatest ones never did? including the pinnacle that is the first matrix itself? Don't get me wrong, I'm not hating on it, I just can't see why to praise it at all either. If it made back the budget then atleast the hard work of the filming crew was justified, albeit only financially.
honestly I don't understand the hate about matrix resurrections when its in my opinion the best part so far, regarding that the first movie was a beginner ticket and with resurrections being the prime taste.
You lost me at 6:46. "It's not a product to be sold", but that's exactly what they did, they created a project and sold it and it's subsequent sequels to a major movie studio. I'm not lambasting that choice, just pointing out how demonstrably false that statement is. The dialogue in this video sounds like someone fanboy-ing, drinking the Kool-aide, while simultaneously ignoring legitimate criticism. And that's from someone who is a legit fanboy of the series. I am truly a Matrix geek, and maybe that's why I'm so hard on this movie. I actually liked the Reloaded and Revolutions. Which is why when I look at this movie with a critical eye, I believe it's doing a lot of the things you say it's not doing. Maybe a third watching will help me see something in missing.
22:35 Trinity didn't free herself. Literally transferring powers from Neo to herself by simply being re-awakened makes no narrative sense. They could have easily sold it as she gained powers similar to his by then being so close to each other for 60+ years. But how would he lose the ability to do something that they made clear in the first film that the only thing that would prevent him from doing it is his own limiting beliefs? He gets to the-write the matrix as he wishes. Hell, they could have written is as he becomes powerful enough to give her powers, or make her the "One" by storing all the anomalies inside of her. But they don't even try to explain it, it's just something that happened, "because". Am I thinking about this wrong? Help me out folks.
Like you said near the end of the video, you like the trilogy more as a result of this movie. I feel the same way but in the opposite. We had steak, it was amazing, and now that we've been given bologna, that steak tastes even better. There was so much potential, and I could see it in a few scenes where the dialogue was great but it just fell flat afterwards too many times. I see Lana's involvement as merely a chance for self insert, to insert her own journey on the back of her and her sister's magnificent creation from 20 years ago. And it's absolutely hers to do, but unfortunately, she missed the mark.
@@topnetworkersgroup there were a few, and it wasn't so much that the conversations ended badly, it was the follow up that fell flat. When NPH was talking to Neo, I enjoyed most of their interactions in the first half of the movie, I liked the idea that the analyst was keeping him trapped but the reason was less than satisfying. New Smith, before it was revealed that's who he was, had some great lines but why did we even need a new Smith? It felt cheap to me.
It's good to see a film critique that places the film studied in a larger and more mature framework. As a young person, Lana Wachowski would have known all the French cinema that was movies about making movies (particularly Godard and Truffaut). As artists, neither Wachowski would have enjoyed a studio's hints that they were going to capitalize on the Matrix brand with or without them. So what we get is a reflection on the Wachowski's position within the film industry, which has been bumpy (Cloud Atlas, a beautiful film, was not appreciated, and Sense 8, a unique and beautiful reflection on our global community and the core problem of predatory life, was cancelled). Of course she would bring those issues and the more personal ones connected with her parents' passing into the film. Turning Agent Smith into a producer is perfect. I guess it will take average viewers some time to read all of the elements packed into the thing - or not - which is to be understood in a viewing environment where we move from superheroes to the supernatural without spending much time on our actual position in the metaverse of characterizations, plot structures and memes swirling around us and choking out questions that might one time have been understood as "eternal". Thanks for raising some of the deeper things happening in the work.
I really loved it, I felt the story was very love centered and different. It was definitely one of my favorites and I think she did an amazing job with it.
Yess, or rather I felt like the new movie was more love centered compared to the trilogy. Coz the trilogy was also very focused on the neo-trinity love story. On my second watch of the trilogy it felt like it was a love story first coz for both the characters their significant other felt like the primary driving force behind their fight against the machines, especially for neo.
I liked the Matrix Resurrections. I think what made it succeed where others have failed is that Lana was inspired. Not just by money. But because she had gone through an epic journey since the first Matrix. She had to put that truth into film. It's real. Like the fictional computer simulation that is the Matrix, real life has evolved and changed exponentially since 2001.
In the end, a movie has to work on many levels, not just an intellectual one. That‘s the reason it lost me very early on. I got the meta-stuff, but I just didn‘t care. But I respect the attempt and, conceptually speaking, I agree: this is way more original than most other remakes, sequels and prequels.
Man, I've been bingeing your videos and I absolutely love your general positivity and differing POV. You gave me a new appreciation for ASM 2, Dark Knight Rises, etc. I can't get onboard with this one. Matrix Resurrections knows what it wants to be, but falls prey to its' own meta. It has some very big and very clever ideas, but I felt like it fell very short in the execution. The action scenes were a frenetic mess and lacked the style of the originals in a way that felt more like the result of a limited budget than a bold new direction. It had some clever moments, but nothing close to what came before. I'm interested to hear your take, but I don't think I'm going to be changing my mind.
Now that we’re few months away from this, I’m still baffled at how poorly it was received by audiences. I wholeheartedly agree with all of your points here and think it was one of, if not the best, legacy sequels we’ve had to date.
Your review is the BEST ON THE INTERNET!!! AWESOME!!! You are awake and I applaud your hard work putting this video together!! Great Job!! I am also going to add a review I did of Matrix 4 below. Thank You for your thoughtful and insightful review!!
Let's...try this again. What did YOU all think of The Matrix Resurrections? Hopefully I'm not the only one who loved this one 🔴🔵
I didn’t like it
I like it
It's a flawed movie like any other but it was entertaining and enjoyable with a nice message. That's all I really look for in a movies these days where I don't have the time to be an elitist or over analyze a film like I used to. Sure, some things don't work, but overall if I sit down and enjoy it for what it was, it's a thumbs up for me.
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I personally thought it hit everything a matrix sequel should. I just wished the editing was a little tighter
The Matrix is now an allegory of studios creating endless sequels. Analyst said it best: as long as he put Neo and Trinity close to each other but not allow them to get together, they generate unlimited energy. This is exactly what studios want: to endlessly put characters and stories in repetitive loops, but never finish the story, generating unlimited $$$. I'm sure it hurt Lana to do this film, but she was able to get the message across, and I'm sure she's enjoying some of that additional $$$ too.
Yes, but would of been better than ruining a franchise more. Her enjoying the $$$ from it is actually ironic and hypocritical. Nothing learned.
@CJ P. Cool it with the transphobic remarks.
Yeah-- AND IT'S A GREAT MATRIX FILM.
DOESN'T YOUR HEART BLE.E.D. for middle aged, past his prime Thomas Anderson ONCE AGAIN FAR MORE DELIBERATELY TRAPPED IN THE MATRIX? HE'S US.
I think the matrix movies are whatever you see in them everybody has his or her own story and so the matrix means different things for different people.
The message getting across was that it was a shit film lol
I always felt the reason neo didn’t want people seeing him as the one and just a man was besides him being unsure was because if he says he’s the one they will just depend on him. However if you believe he’s just a man doing best he can then maybe you can be the next neo. You’ll be the best you instead of depending on a savior. But that’s just my just how I see it and in all honesty I think this movie showed it best when they started making the fourth game and he says what do ppl think of when they hear matrix. It’s different view for all of us. Isn’t that what makes it so special?
Being the one isnt about Being the one. Its about being the first one... figgering out the puzzle... so being the first one isnt that special...he knows he isnt special...he is just the first...and dont want credit from onconcious human beings as a savior for willing to be the first... architects demi god lyrics
@Dino Sauro no where in that did I mention like the movie. Maybe you should stop trying to troll people lmao
@Dino Sauro A wise man takes his own advice. By disliking Matrix Revelations you are expressing your POV. That's the only fact you can claim, and in truth that's your baggage talking. So, enjoy your journey. Bye.
Great point. I also feel like he was right as well.. he was just an anamoly.. its 6th interation.. but the difference was in the firdt five he just had a deep love of humanity.. but in the 6th, where he fell in love with Trinity.. that was the one were he "became the One" except it was Trinity's declaration of love for him, saying he had to be the One because the Oracle told her she would fall in love with the One and she loved him.. that was when Neo was RESURRECTED.
So really, the One is Two, both Male and Female, not a binary choice but a continuum.. and the most beautiful moment before they went in to claim Trinity from the Matrix he told the next gen crewperson who held Trinity as a hero that she believed in him once, it was his turn to believe in her.. it was perfect!
This was hella well done. Social media trashed this movie but I kept an open mind and actually really enjoyed it and you helped articulate some of the initial thoughts and feelings I was having as I watched. Very dope.
Social media says it's trash because it disrespects the previous films, not because it's real shit
@@iwatatiff Except it doesn’t disrespect the previous films whatsoever If anything it enhances both reloaded and revolutions but that’s gonna be social media for you they’re going to believe what they believe
EXACTLY!!... people so ready to trash this movie but it’s not trash it jus didn’t top the original.. it’s a new feel, so what it’s still not garbage.. jus different and this was the only positive feedback I’ve seen so far on the media
@@joshmiller8921 its different, and bad. Its like they are trying so hard to be meta that they didn't realize the outcome was gonna be what seemed like shitty writing
@@denzelstephen266 nah if they took a step back then id say it was bad.. but I don’t think this was no worse than the third one, it was pretty decent to me
One of the film's most important points in my view is that by engaging people's emotions you can get them to not even want to wake up from the Matrix - a 'gentler' more powerful system of control, which is why the analyst is a much more successful (and scarier) ruler than the architect.
Right how often do we see that in the real world.
Exactly, Resurrections is better than and more dangerous than The Matrix.
New matrix is a garbage lol
@@firequeen76 Quite often. In drugs, drink, and sex, for example. The habit of getting outside our own heads, to escape the existential emptiness and dread of our existence, is well entrenched. But perhaps there's another way - to give ourselves compassion, love, and kindness instead. In realising that loss is part of the process, and that it always precedes a new beginning - with us, or without us - may be more constructive.
@@firequeen76 Its funny you say that, considering our entire live basically revolves around this concept as it os one of the most fundamental building blocks of our socio-economic system.
This is probably the most wholehearted review and analysis of Matrix Resurrections available. Thank you so much!
@pc didnt ask.
What I see as one of the most important contributions of this film is the fact that we can talk about it. Or at least you can in some places. Much as I loved Spider-Man, the conversation around that film is largely spoilers etc. Maybe there are greater themes to talk about there, but the conversation largely isn’t going to happen. With this film I’ve already watched a few times trying to puzzle out it’s point on binaries, reboot culture, narratives. That’s worth a lot to me. Unfortunately one of the things that prevents real engagement with the film is our current tendency towards encampments, and refusal to engage with ideas we don’t agree with in a thoughtful manner.
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This version of the matrix is the 7th version the number 7 is a very spiritual number.
In Hinduism and Bhuddishm it is believed that there are 6-9 realms or realities. Each plane with its own set of laws and conditions. Since the matrix films are an allegory for the existence of consciousness within the perception of humans it’s plausible to believe that the real world is a simulation that operates independently within its own boundaries but fundamentally it is part of a cycle of domains.
In hermetics the second universal law is that of correspondence - as above so below.
Just like reincarnation and karma. What you do in this life affects what you become or what you do in the next life. The matrix and the real world represent the lower dimensions of reality i.e. hell, this correlates to the first three lower chakras: root chakra, sacral and solar plexus. Neo and trinity together represent the fourth chakra which is the heart chakra. Coincidence as this is the fourth movie.
Number four also represents time, the fourth dimension. This is why in resurrections we see many cuts and flashbacks to the original trilogy, this represents the past. The 7th version of the matrix takes place in the modern day 21st century (present) and when Neo wakes up in the real world he learns that 60 years have past since he saved Zion (future). If you decode the matrix mathematically you see how intricate, metaphysical, profound and revealing each movie truly is and how transcendental the franchise is as a whole because it subverts expectations and challenges you to question your own existence and perception of reality.
If you consider each movie in sequence then you see how each feature serves its purpose flawlessly. The first movie represents the number one: meaning perfection, originality, creation. This is why everyone loved the original film the most. It’s pedigree is undeniable, it will never be replicated or surpassed. There will never ever be a better matrix film then the first film. It is the one and only exception. The number two represents duality, instability, complication, again most people loathe matrix reloaded because it’s the middle chapter, it has no beginning nor end. The third film represents resolution, cohesion, finality. Metaphorically if the first film is “birth” second one is “life” then the third represents “death”. Just as easy as - 1,2,3. Resurrections represents four, meaning time, fourth dimension, quantum entanglement, multiverse, system & order, versatility, multiprocessing (neo running a module, subroutine within the matrix), repetition, four also represents a sequence. Like making a beat - and a one and a two and a three and four!”
Just some food for thought..
Yeah dude, other than spoilers and character match-ups, we know exactly what to expect from Spiderman... As much as they tried to take a fresh take with Tom Holland, the message of self-sacrifice remains the same. It is nothing new.
Don't give up. Keep trying.
Luv yer post.
Umm. No. You're just too trusting. This movie is simply the release of 30 years worth of guilt. You see, the Wachowskis were handed someone's script back in 1993, and it's upon that work: The Ciphermen, that they made their fame and fortune. In 2018 the writer of the stolen work put out an exposé on a con artist woman who claimed they stole from her. In it, he included the actual stolen work, and the Wachowskis saw that video (Sophia Stewart The Definitive Case Study). Their response was The Matrix Resurrections. They were enraged because up until that point no one had figured out that this con artist woman, Sophia Stewart, was created by Matrix lawyers! The new movie is basically one giant confession and middle finger at the dude they stole from.
I had the feeling the director was trying to make a movie so bad that WB would stop asking them to make more Matrix movies
This
How did that work out for them? It's a dumb excuse, that dude made a bad movie, and hasnt made a good movie since the first one.
That’s LITERALLY what happened lol
@@pvt.reefer6163when you’re objectively wrong but still confident about it. 2 was incredible. 3 was fine
@FlyingKlutchKick what LITTERALLY happened?
Actually this whole film's satire reminds me of Meta Gear Solid 4 where Old Snake is tired and torturing himself to get through the game. Seeing Neo tortured by The Analyst for "his amusement" really ticks that same box, but more sadistic. 👍
You know, I actually find it very interesting that you referenced Metal Gear Solid because although the message Metal Gear Solid is different than the Matrix in a sense, it is still connected in some ways, and also I've heard that Hideo Kojima has some involvement with the Matrix, but I forget if it has to do with the website or the matrix video game. There is some link between the two.
As Agent Smith said in the 4th film: "Stories don't really end, we've been telling the same story over and over", and I believe that although the message takes secular and religious philosophy and religions around the world and incorporates it into the film, I believe all of those things are meant to illustrate something concerning Christianity at the core, and so I believe the core message has to do with Christianity.
@@Bi0Dr01d Also Metal Gear Solid 4 was heavily criticised for it's meta themes and old snake, but it is actually my favourite in the franchise for how *final* everything is in that game. Even though we've had like 3-4 more Metal Gears since then, I'll always see MGS4 as the final chapter no matter what.
I think MGS4 is the only other piece of entertainment that has addressed the whole "sequels are bad" idea before and maybe people find that kind of pretentious, but I think it's a cool concept. I got a lot of MGS2 vibes with how that game tried to confuse you and question whether or not the game was only in a virtual reality or not.
@@NewOrderOfAlexandria out of all of the Metal Gear Solid video games, the one I find the most interesting is Metal Gear Solid 3 Snake eater.
It's the game that blatantly shows its connection to the supernatural. Metal Gear Solid was my favorite game of all time, but there's something wrong in it that I should point out.
In the beginning of the game, it says that "the boss" defected, and when Snake met with the boss and Colonel Vogan on the bridge, the boss threw snake over the bridge into the river.
The reason why that's very important is because Colonel Logan is known for his powers of electricity, which is connected to Snake's defeat from the boss which caused him to descend into the water.
Luke 10:18 - And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.
Under this context, it would seem that "the boss" represents God, implying that the game is trying to make God into a bad guy, and that would mean "Snake" represents Satan, and since we as the audience and game players are cheering this character on, it seems to be a way of causing us to inadvertently worship the Devil.
You might doubt that this character Snake is Satan, but there's more proof.
Snake was supposed to rendezvous with a man code named "Adam" but instead meets with "Eva" *(Adam and Eve from The Book of Genesis of the Bible).*
This is definitely a reference to the Bible and does imply Snake is The Devil. His relationship with Eva also parallels the Book of Genesis, because Satan tricked Eve to eat from the forbidden fruit, causing her to sin.
Also, if you look at the Cobra Unit, these characters have Supernatural connections. You have "The Pain", "The Fear", "The End", "The Fury, and the most obvious supernatural character, "The Sorrow".
The sorrow represents death,
2 Corinthians 7:8-10
¶For though I made you sorry with a letter, I do not repent, though I did repent: for I perceive that the same epistle hath made you sorry, though it were but for a season.
9Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing.
10For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: *but the sorrow of the world worketh death.*
The sorrows character represents death itself, and the afterlife. "The fury" represent hell. The fear and the pain represents suffering and torment. The End seems to both imply an end of life and also the end of the world or biblical prophecy being fulfilled.
And "the boss" being The Joy, the character who represents God.
Nehemiah 8:10 - ...the joy of the LORD is your strength.
The game makes God the villain and makes Satan the hero, so that we would fall in love with Satan and worship him without knowing it.
This is not only the case in Metal Gear Solid alone, this seems to be a continual repeating message in all of these movies, television shows, and games we play.
I'll even prove that with a link I'll share below. I also recommend subscribing to this channel.
ua-cam.com/video/CXDEz-WCLs0/v-deo.html
He also tortured the audience with this terrible film
@@micmorgan84 Heh, you're funny, Morgan lol. I kind of felt that the film was made the way it was on purpose. I had that feeling for various reasons, but then people started posting similar theories online, so I'm not alone in thinking that. I agree with what everyone's saying about the fight scene not being that good, or certain plot points weren't thoroughly explained, etc, but the movie actually responds to some of these objections within its own content, which is why I find the film interesting and why I do feel to some extent it was made the way it was on purpose.
This film had so many great ideas - but was too short to communicate everything, so it felt that it rushed up to wrap the movie. The Machines Energy war, the new symbiosis of machines and humans, the new city, the new construct of the matrix for efficient energy. This film should have been a trilogy by itself to have a good pace and rhythm.
agreed. it needed to be longer. i hope they make another Animatrix to fill some of the space.
Yes
This version of the matrix is the 7th version the number 7 is a very spiritual number.
In Hinduism and Bhuddishm it is believed that there are 6-9 realms or realities. Each plane with its own set of laws and conditions. Since the matrix films are an allegory for the existence of consciousness within the perception of humans it’s plausible to believe that the real world is a simulation that operates independently within its own boundaries but fundamentally it is part of a cycle of domains.
In hermetics the second universal law is that of correspondence - as above so below.
Just like reincarnation and karma. What you do in this life affects what you become or what you do in the next life. The matrix and the real world represent the lower dimensions of reality i.e. hell, this correlates to the first three lower chakras: root chakra, sacral and solar plexus. Neo and trinity together represent the fourth chakra which is the heart chakra. Coincidence as this is the fourth movie.
Number four also represents time, the fourth dimension. This is why in resurrections we see many cuts and flashbacks to the original trilogy, this represents the past. The 7th version of the matrix takes place in the modern day 21st century (present) and when Neo wakes up in the real world he learns that 60 years have past since he saved Zion (future). If you decode the matrix mathematically you see how intricate, metaphysical, profound and revealing each movie truly is and how transcendental the franchise is as a whole because it subverts expectations and challenges you to question your own existence and perception of reality.
If you consider each movie in sequence then you see how each feature serves its purpose flawlessly.
The first movie represents the number one: meaning perfection, originality, creation.
This is why everyone loved the original film the most. It’s pedigree is undeniable, it will never be replicated or surpassed. There will never ever be a better matrix film then the first film. It is the one and only exception.
The number two represents duality, instability, complication, again most people loathe matrix reloaded because it’s the middle chapter, it has no beginning nor end. The third film represents resolution, cohesion, finality. Metaphorically if the first film is “birth” second one is “life” then the third represents “death”. Just as easy as - 1,2,3. Resurrections represents four, meaning time, fourth dimension, quantum entanglement, multiverse, system & order, versatility, multiprocessing (neo running a module, subroutine within the matrix), repetition, four also represents a sequence.
Like making a beat - and a one and a two and a three and four!”
Just some food for thought.
More like a special web series bing worthy content. 🍷But i guess feature films is where the money is at. 🤷🏻♀️💵💵
Who’s to say they won’t expand on all those ideas with another movie or two? The original Matrix was exactly as you’re describing, and then they went and made two more…so it wouldn’t surprise me if Lana continues writing this story and develops these rich ideas
I loved the originals, but my expectations were tempered for a 4th. And sadly, this movie just didn't hold up. The problem is that the movie is so on the nose meta, it feels like it's looking down on me for wanting more of The Matrix. Geez, sorry I fell in love with your movies--I can understand the disdain towards the studio, but the audience is there for a movie. Also, I shouldn't need to know the directors entire life story to be able to appreciate their work. And this movie just wasn't that good. There were some good ideas, and some interesting twists. But I felt empty after watching it. Perfected the legacy sequel? I disagree. They "perfected" making a movie that critiques the notion of legacy sequels... But Lana's resentment about making one was such a dark cloud that she put into the movie that it just wasn't enjoyable. And believe me, I'm a big fan of the bigger matrix world. I'm not an action junkie, and I also thought the sequels we're a little underrated. But this was a mess... Glad other people enjoyed it. I wanted to though.
Thanks for your comment. This guy is clearly disconnected to reality 😐
@@Denneska his comment "Lana and Lily going thru their journeys to find their real identity" cemented that for me
I felt the same, my bad for liking your previous trilogy, and not my fault i fell in love with the trilogy, and have issues with this movie compared to its previous storyline, casting, choreography and finally music...my bad
@@ybyby3rdday Didn’t Café for that part but the rest of it is sadly something I find correctly observed. I don’t think it’s necessary to go into the private lives to feel the 60 years of pain and torture that Neo and Trinity went through. That’s plenty of story for me.
You've summed up my thoughts exactly. Everyone who calls Matrix 4 a masterpiece seems to have one thing in common, that being self-referential and parodying itself is what elevates it. It isn't, not when the message to the audience is "You're foolish for wanting to watch the thing you're watching." While I have sympathy for what the Wachowskis have gone through, it should have no bearing whatsoever on the evaluation of the movie. This is a sci-fi fantasy story, not a documentary. If you want to see self-referential done correctly, watch Cobra Kai. When they got past this part and showed how the world evolved after Revolutions, that's when I got interested. Furthermore, reviewers who sing the praises of Matrix 4 fail to address all aspects of the movie. When discussing a storytelling medium like film, you cannot only talk about the story and neglect to evaluate how effectively the medium was used. There are many aspects that add up to effective use, such as: character design, set design, color palettes, shot composition, choreography, pacing, transitions, music, sound effects, and so on. If you don't address the things which make it a movie, you may as well be talking about a book. Matrix 4 had a decent enough story to tell, but did not have the complete package like the originals.
I too watched the original trilogy before watching Resurrections. It had been so many years and I sure appreciated them more. I didn't follow Resurrections promotion almost at all. When I sat down to watch it at cinema, I was left with "YES! This really spoke to me!", really shattering my expectations. I was honestly expecting bland... Well, legacy sequel, but Resurrections really blew my mind.
Granted the weakest part was the action though XD
Lmaoooo this sounds like 🧢🧢 no way you felt that especially after the tone was completely different and off
@@TheLunzDen facts
@@TheLunzDen shows your lack of intelligence. If you truly believe it’s impossible for the movie to be loved only because you didn’t get it is an extremely dumb way of thinking and is 100% wrong.
@@TheLunzDen how are you telling someone how they felt? Take a seat and shh
@@michaeldorsey1394 I hate that "you didn't get it" excuse... The last Matrix is an extremely shallow movie. Even its attempts at being self aware or meta are about as subtle as a brick to the face. As a fan of great works of fiction and psychological pieces that make you think, this is unequivocally NOT
I’ve only seen it once so far. Even though I think I have some problems with it, I still told all my friends walking out I’d take a sequel like this over sequels like Disney Star Wars.
Yeah, Resurection was a better sequel follow up to the originals then the disney sequels. However that really isnt saying much. Both sequel reboots are still terrible.
Dude The Last Jedi is the Matrix:Resurection from the sequels,they both are misunderstands masterpiece movies, but people did not realise this yet.
This was barely better than Star Wars Sequel Trilogy
It's more artistically innovative then just a remake of the original movie with different characters (The Force Awakens and Jurassic World) agreed.
That said, it's kind of a false dichotomy (remake v. this) . Blade Runner 2049 and Mad Max: Fury Road were wonderful legacy sequels that both updated and expanded the universe of the original (without doing that lazy soft reboot process).
And I think there's an amazing fourth Matrix story that could be told that wasn't ...this.
Definitely
The way I see it, The Matrix (1999) challenged our expectations of an action film. The Matrix Resurrections challenged our expectations of a Matrix movie by changing up the genre and style.
That's a great way of putting it!
Not just of a Matrix movie, but of a reboot sequel.
new genre - Cringe . Or poor cringe ?
Challenged our expectations of a matrix movie by just making a really fuckin bad movie 🤣
@@RDR911 I liked it.
We found that one guy who liked this movie... For everything there will always be that one guy
I rewatched this recently, and I actually found that it was a lot better the second time
After hearing only bad things about the movie, it was a must for me to watch as I rarely care about the opinion of the masses and because I like to form my own opinion. I have to admit that I was pretty divided after the movie. I had also watched parts 1 - 3 again and was therefore fully involved in the topic. Just the fact that it made me think and all the flashback moments as well as the idea that Thomas Anderson is supposed to have invented the matrix and that the matrix parts were basically just games, I think it's terrific. I think I definitely have to watch the film more often, because I liked parts 2 and 3 more and more the more I saw them. Very nice and detailed video with even more facts I have to think about.
does the new movie really say the originals were just games or that neo was told they were games, and within the new matrix, they were planted as games he made so any memories he had would be attributed to him “making the game” as opposed to him actually having lived that life?
ive heard people even in my circle that describe it as if the first 3 were just fantasy stories within the movie when i didnt get that vibe from this movie, more so implying after the third this one takes place
After my 3rd watch I liked it significantly better. I still have many issues with it but mainly because there were better routes that could have been explored. I put those expectations aside and just said okay it is what it is, we are going through a old love story with different scenarios. I think they should have began the 4th movie during the machine war whilst Neo tries to reunite with Trinity after learning she’s alive. I think the meta stuff wasn’t executed properly but I think on paper the script looked solid and why Keanu and others praised it before the release.
I'm just gonna lay out all my thoughts here since i already did a lot of this heavy lifting in a reply to another comment on this video. I went out thinking it was a 7, but my score has gradually gone down to a 5 since I've had time to reflect on the film and think about it all. This is going to be a long ass comment, but i have a lot to say, so anyways...
To start off with: the characters.
Bugs is a fucking plot device and not much else, and that's a damn shame. They could've actually done something interesting with her character, but all Lana really cared about was wanting to get Neo in Trinity's pants again so to speak, so Bugs got the shaft and was relegated to being the only driving force in the entire story after the first act, pushing Neo from set piece to set piece with no real care for his own input (which the film openly admits, the movie won't even let the audience come to that conclusion on their own; its fucking insulting to my intelligence). The only exception really out of the new/reworked cast that i thought was kinda well done is Agent Smith (i actually like what they did with him as far as repurposing his character goes), but everything else? 💩
I do like the world building done in this film, but a majority of it is ripped from the MMO, so i can't really credit this film for much of it. I'm just glad they didn't scrap their ideas. I also like the personal aspect of this film and how it ties into Lana's recent loss of her parents (its less philosophical and more so auto-biographical if that makes any sense, kind of like a Hideo Kojima game). This film is clearly a way for her to cope with their death, and I'm not gonna take that away from her. I don't think it improves the writing much, but it's still a cool aspect of the film.
I don't have a problem with the idea of The Matrix doing a smaller-scale love story, but the problem I do have lies in the implications of everyone's actions in this film (that being that THIS STORY REALLY ISN'T AS SMALL SCALE AS FILM SPEAK IS TRYING TO SUGGEST). The new Matrix is destroyed now, and that pretty much means that all out war is sure to break out again between the machines and humans (except now with the help of the synthiants), and Neo and Trinity act like they don't have a fucking care in the world now, humanity be damned. They're going to go paint rainbows in the sky while humanity gets slaughtered i guess. Like, how does anyone not see an issue with that? Do they have a plan going forward on how they'll try to survive? Zion barely even survived the last war and it was only because Neo "sacrificed" himself to broker peace between the humans and machines, what makes you think Io is equipped to deal with this? If they're found, their colony is fucked. Why the fuck was it imperative that Neo and Trinity escape The Matrix? Bugs never really explains this because, again, she gets next to no character development in this film. Personally, it probably would've been more poetic had Neo and Trinity decided to stay in The Matrix together of their own volition after dealing with The Analyst if there wasn't going to be a follow-up to this film. You have to admit: THAT would've been a pretty bittersweet yet satisfying ending to The Matrix saga. Now obviously that couldn't work at all in the version of The Matrix 4 that Lana Wachowski ended up ultimately writing (due to how the massive power drawn from Neo and Trinity is based on proximity), but it could've maybe worked in a rewrite.
There's more to this film than just its meta narrative and the broad strokes of its story, and THAT'S what people have a problem with. The first film understood this very well and made very carefully thought out decisions when it came to its story. Even the second film, to a lesser degree, is still pretty damn thought out when it comes to its surface level narrative, and the third (while the weakest of the three) gets to piggyback off the heavy lifting done in Reloaded and focus on the payoffs of the overarching narrative between the two films.
I just can't say the same about Resurrections. Bugs was nowhere near as relevant as i thought she was going to be and has pretty much zero character development, the new Morpheus is also a glorified plot device (much like Bugs), the rest of the ship's crew are glorified filler characters who only exist to operate the ship and pull people in and out of The Matrix (they're nowhere near as fleshed out as characters like Link, Niobe, Locke or The Kid), the Architect was surprisingly incompetent (despite having such a busted ass power inside the new Matrix), and Trinity's "red pill" moment so to speak in the third act feels incredibly unprompted because the hints she's given are total ass. I can nitpick the flying scene where she catches Neo all day, but it's honestly just that: a nitpick. If that's how Lana wanted Trinity to awaken her powers or whatever, then fine. But to have it happen suddenly like that, with no suggestion before hand that she could be The One like Neo, is just blatantly awful writing. Neo didn't just start by fucking force pushing people and stopping bullets, he had to believe he could first and that took some time to accept. Trinity's was like the flip of a switch, and it feels unearned as a result.
And don't get me started on the Merovingian. I could write an entire comment half as long as this about why that scene was so butchered and made zero sense for him to be there. I understand the significance of him being there from a meta-narrative perspective (he really served as a huge mouth piece for Lana in this film), but he's literally an exiled program. Isn't it dangerous for him to be there during that fight scene? I thought being Exiled means he's in hiding.
U just said it all!!!! Lazy writing bad action scenes and it’s was just boring and they lost all the cool factor from the first movies.
@@WareWolf831 Like i said: i thought the subtext was fine, but there's not enough actual substance in this film otherwise. Reloaded kinda had the opposite problem where i thought there wasn't enough meaningful subtext to chew on but the baseline story was pretty good. Granted, i watch films for the base story first and foremost, so i prefer Reloaded. I think its pretty decent and enjoyable to watch, and the premise behind the Architect is incredibly fascinating.
This film is basically just as shallow as Revolutions, but with additional subtext. For people who watch these films only for the subtext, i can understand why they like this film, but i don't think that having ONLY good subtext makes for a good film. Even a de-constructive or heavily philosophical piece of fiction should have a good baseline plot for the audience to chew on, much like any sort of story. Parasite understood this, Metal Gear Solid 2 understood this (whereas MGS5 didn't), the Final Fantasy 7 Remake understood this, even something like Watchmen understands this. Resurrections does not get this, it's a very weak science fiction film compared to the other entries in the series, and what it does have to say in terms of subtext doesn't make up for the weak baseline story.
This fourth entry in the series almost feels like a parody of a Matrix film (i've seen people bring up this point a lot), but its clearly meant to be a bona fide sequel rather than a deconstruction of the Matrix series in-universe. Lana Wachowski clearly didn't mean to parody her previous films, it's more so the opposite actually. This is undoubtedly an auto-biographical piece with pot shots at Warner Brothers and an attempt at a genuine love story between Neo and Trinity. Like Film Speak says, it was Lana's way of coping with the loss of her parents. She used The Matrix as a means of finding closure in her own life, rather than wanting to just continue the story for the story's sake.
I largely agree with you. It feels like a lot of the things done in this movie was done for the sake of doing it while ignoring a precedent already set.
I do have a problem with how Trinity gains the One's powers for two reasons: they didn't have to remove powers from Neo for her to have them, and they could have easily explained how she got powers. Neo could have given her powers, he's able to manipulate the matrix. It could have been explained that because they were near each other for 60+ years she gained similar powers. But in the understanding of how Neo's powers work, it doesn't make sense that he lost the ability to fly. He's able to manipulate the code, the only factor that limits his power is his own beliefs.
Why did they created a new Morpheus only to have him emulate traits of the original? Lawrence said that they didn't even invite him back, so then why not just have the person to re-ignite the One be someone different, why did it have to be Morpheus?
How was Smith able to get around the bullet time but not Neo (who once again, can manipulate the matrix)?
The Merovingian could have been replaced by any other character and it wouldn't have made a difference. I don't understand why they did what they did to his character, outside of showing how the wars affected him. He's no longer in favor of the machines and the humans of IO don't need him.
I don't think that anyone can tell Lana how to process her grief, and that's not what I'm doing here, I just don't think this is what fans of the series who are into the lore of the Matrix want. It feels like they were stuck between a sequel and a reboot. Lots of half-assed reconning for no reason.
@@lamario This movie feels like fucking fan-fiction, its so surreal.
@@four-en-tee Yup!
Another interesting aspect that I find beautifully expressed in the movie is the notion that even by doing something as 'legendary' and 'revolutionary' as Neo and Trinity in the original trilogy, you are just moving the needle of history forwards a tiny bit. Life goes on - humans and machines get a chance to co-exist, but that doesn't solve all problems, and may create new ones. There is never an 'ultimate victory/solution' to anything in life, it's an ongoing development.
I love this comment - cause you're right -
@@ryokodeivisu Neo & Trinity barely changed anything in the 'real world' at the end of the first trilogy; 40 years later, Humans are Still enslaved by the fake dream world of the machines; and in the real world, humans are still on the run from the Machines - yes there were some Improvements but, overall, mankind is still NOT FREE .... not sure how you missed that part.
Yea, even from the beginning the Wachowskis have said that the trilogy comments on the Hegelian dialectic. Which when I asked what that was the simple answer given was
"thesis-> antithesis-> synthesis, in other words it describes the movement of ideas throughout history as contradicting ideas come into conflict and emerge into a combination of the two, which then becomes its own idea which enters into further conflict. The dialectic is the conflict and resolution between these ideas. Hegel’s conception of history was idealist (I.e. ideas are what drives history) but Marx (and others) used his schema to describe a materialist conception of history (I.e. material conditions like class conflict are what drives history)."
And I feel like Matrix Ressurections ends up putting that in the clearest terms. The first story was a clear black and white Human Vs Machines. But we learn that that divide was already unclear by learning that machines started out as the oppressed group and then that certain machines like the Oracle were helping humans break free from the cycle of everyone on Zion being annihilated every 100 years to keep the Matrix as a Prison in balance.
Then in Restrictions the human and machine societies have synthesized. And the competing ideas between IO and the Analysts Matrix are still there and still produce conflict but are still seen as a small step forward from what was.
@@Tamacat388 Love that analysis!
Im in the middle. I gave this film a “C+”. While some ideas do get across, there’s a lack of innovation.
My first feeling after watching the film was a huge sense of relief that there was still a totally unapologetic love story at its core. For me, despite all the hype about technique and philosophy was the thing that made the original trilogy so unique for an action film. I then enjoyed the layers of interpretation similar to the original, I like that the new matrix is basically social media/facebook, fills your head with noise, the Merovingian complaining of the end of civility for tweets and facebook popularity (I don't think he is talking about the social media in the new matrix, I think he is describing the new Matrix itself), the therapist saying that if he keeps people unhappy and frustrated he creates more power.
It is a shame some of the original cast were not there, I hear some actors "just couldn't fit it into their schedule" which sounds like a real shame, I would have thought it was worth waiting until they could get everyone they wanted. On the whole though I loved it.
I agree. We really needed Hugo Weaving. And perhaps Lawrence. And probably another movie. Less telling, more showing.
Terrific comment!
However, I love Groff as Smith, and Mateen II's Morpheus is just sooo funny, compelling while honoring Fishburn's Morpheus "Uno".
Hey, not that I wouldn't have loved seeing Weaving back, though a reality check is needed regarding Fishburne: the guy's "widened" a whole lot in 17 years...;-P
I loved the movie so much, and really enjoyed your post's honesty.
Peace out
@@karmick Actually, the comment you rated here, is only evidence of how easy it is for Hollywood types to completely fool an audience, while communicating directly with individuals at large. What am I talking about? This movie is nothing but a rudely delivered confession of plagiarism, aimed at the person whose work (The Ciphermen) was handed to the Wachowskis in 1993.
The love story was the worst part of the trilogy.
I agree with pretty much everything you said, but there's one thing this film lacks: the martial arts. I know that's not the point of these films, but it's absolutely ingrained in the previous trilogy, so I really missed it here. But again, I agree that this film works, especially because it follows directly what happened in Revolutions. Personally, I'm gonna rewatch this on Wednesday at the cinema, aa it should be.
I must agree. The original trilogy had a lot of charisma and conveyed a feeling of awe in its choreographies. I believe Lana filmed those scenes here instead of leaving them to a second unit. I think it's admirable, but mistaken, to paraphrase Bane.
Combined with the meta criticism in matrix four about how people just reduce the matrix to gunz and fights, to me it almost felt like the martial arts were deliberately toned down here to make that point.
@@fantasyfangirlno1 Always a possibility.
Thank you for this video. It's insane how many people claim to be fans of the Matrix but never really knew what it was about.
To be fair, I understand what it's about, but even I was disappointed with the bad action, music, and cinematography.
That probably just shows that you are not an actual fan :D Or fan that's wrong.
I definitely enjoyed the film
A turd with "diamonds" in it is still a turd
@@Juggs009 Wait, what's the turd? Or...what's the diamonds?
Despite how people feel about the movie, I will say it is a great commentary on bringing back old franchises in the modern day
I knew this film was flawed. I still wanted to watch it. But, honestly, thanks to your video I feel that I don't want anymore to watch it.
Can I watch a totally unrelated video to Star Wars without having the sequels that I love shit on
That depends. Prequels or sequels?
I loooove the prequels; sequels are ok, yeah, meh.
I'll watch the sequels again, someday.
I watch The Prequels maybe 2x/ yr.
Back to The Matrix: I LOVE "Resurrections"!
@@karmick I love the first two sequels and think rise is okay. Prequels are meh for me. I loved ressurections
I think the 4th movie accurately expresses the current condition of humanity in the modern world, or at the very least in the western world. While most people like to think that they care about things such as truth, facts, evidence, freedom, liberty, morality and so on --- their actions and inactions in the world, seem to prove that all they truly care about, is how they feel and what they believe. We live in a world where fear, hatred, outrage, war, authoritarianism, etc are praised -- and those who do not want those things, are condemned. Humanity is in a phase of destruction and self destruction, not so much by guns, or bombs, or anything we might think of in the more traditional sense -- but rather, an increasing decline in maturity and mental health, as nihilism and hopelessness mixed with virtue signaling has become the standard. While in the long run, the human species may yet prevail -- in the short run, society is collapsing and that collapse will climax. I couldn't tell you the year or the month or the day, or the specifics of exactly what they will look like, only that it is obvious that it is well under way, and proceeding exponentially. Or as John Connor said at the end of Terminator Salvation, paraphrased -- judgment day was not something that could be stopped, the only thing we can do is survive it, and try to create a better world on the other side of it.
I really enjoyed your perspectives on Legacy sequels and Matrix Resurrections. I loved Matrix Resurrections. Thank you.
Same for me I really enjoyed the martix resurrections 💖
I just wanted to see Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Ann Moss again in a new story, and I loved it.
I'm with you. I went to the theater to see this movie and come out in awe..went on openings day first show to see it on the big screen I loved the trilogy and feel this one completed it..bring us back to what was to what is now thank you for putting in the best perspective and explaining it so other may understand...it's not about the money to be made but the story to be told again thank you
Badass and well done man. This was such a helpful and excellently executed review!
Helllo Louis
"This film has the philosophical and thematic richness of its predecessors". I mean, points for saying it with a straight face, but the original is a big story about the most important journey a person can take. This movie is a small story about a pointless journey in that context. I hope you got paid well to say such nice things about this movie. If you truly believe what you've said then I invite you to re-watch the original. Forget the action, it's fine and even groundbreaking for the time, but consider the philosophical implications. The scenario laid out in the matrix isn't necessarily true, but you can't prove it's not. It's Cartesian doubt and the central idea from Zen. The ultimate truth, whether we spend a single second of our lives considering it or not. What do we really know for sure. Compare that to the philosophy apparent in this movie. In a word, it's terrestrial. I will say that it was intriguing for a while. There was some courage present in the way he began to doubt and challenge his reality, but this quickly gave way to a cheap facsimile of the original.
Is this a parody comment?
@brandovlogs the original quote was 'philosophical and thematic richness'. I mean, well done for magically making the philosophy disappear. You weren't a writer on this movie were you?
@@krasmasov6852 well that's ironic. I'll defend anything I've said if you'd care to be a little more specific.
i thought the first half of the film was pretty good and had genuine potential but i don't think it delivered in the end. i don't think its a bad film but i also don't think its good. to be honest im conflicted on it myself. there are some cool concepts that are never explored enough.
I feel like another movie could make or break it
This version of the matrix is the 7th version the number 7 is a very spiritual number.
In Hinduism and Bhuddishm it is believed that there are 6-9 realms or realities. Each plane with its own set of laws and conditions. Since the matrix films are an allegory for the existence of consciousness within the perception of humans it’s plausible to believe that the real world is a simulation that operates independently within its own boundaries but fundamentally it is part of a cycle of domains.
In hermetics the second universal law is that of correspondence - as above so below.
Just like reincarnation and karma. What you do in this life affects what you become or what you do in the next life. The matrix and the real world represent the lower dimensions of reality i.e. hell, this correlates to the first three lower chakras: root chakra, sacral and solar plexus. Neo and trinity together represent the fourth chakra which is the heart chakra. Coincidence as this is the fourth movie.
Number four also represents time, the fourth dimension. This is why in resurrections we see many cuts and flashbacks to the original trilogy, this represents the past. The 7th version of the matrix takes place in the modern day 21st century (present) and when Neo wakes up in the real world he learns that 60 years have past since he saved Zion (future). If you decode the matrix mathematically you see how intricate, metaphysical, profound and revealing each movie truly is and how transcendental the franchise is as a whole because it subverts expectations and challenges you to question your own existence and perception of reality.
If you consider each movie in sequence then you see how each feature serves its purpose flawlessly.
The first movie represents the number one: meaning perfection, originality, creation.
This is why everyone loved the original film the most. It’s pedigree is undeniable, it will never be replicated or surpassed. There will never ever be a better matrix film then the first film. It is the one and only exception.
The number two represents duality, instability, complication, again most people loathe matrix reloaded because it’s the middle chapter, it has no beginning nor end. The third film represents resolution, cohesion, finality. Metaphorically if the first film is “birth” second one is “life” then the third represents “death”. Just as easy as - 1,2,3. Resurrections represents four, meaning time, fourth dimension, quantum entanglement, multiverse, system & order, versatility, multiprocessing (neo running a module, subroutine within the matrix), repetition, four also represents a sequence.
Like making a beat - and a one and a two and a three and four!”
Just some food for thought.
@@master-of-mind5881 that's actually quite interesting
@@umer515k7 thank you.
As a fan of the movies I think the movie is cool to watch but what you call revolutionary I call self-indulgent. felt like the first hour and 15 minutes was the director talking about the process of making a sequel and sequels and themselves and commenting on The matrix and rehashing the matrix and then we finally got a new movie after that.
That part you are talking about was on the level of Q. Tarantino or J. L. Godard. Masterpiece.
Thr process to make a film with some studios who just want to milk your franchise is difficult. They were gonna make this sequel with or without the original writer, director and actors. Michael B Jordan was being eyed for it. Honestly I'd rather see the original vision intended for us rather than bring in another director who is gonna do what the studio wants and someone who didn't fully understand the lore of the series.
I loved it, as a huge lore fan i was so glad I finally got to see matrix in the cinema
Me too.
Thanks, I needed this! Still struggling with all the Meta, and all the callbacks and references.
I think AT&T selling off Warner Brothers to the Discovery Channel can free up the Matrix franchise for more creative endeavors. I hope Resurrections is a start to greater things and I would like to see the Matrix universe move beyond Neo and Trinity with new stories and characters.
you clearly don't get the point at all
@@le_maxarus Why? Sure, the Whachowskis did not want a sequel to the trilogy. But when Lana got trust into the situation, she flowed like water. She choose to tell a story she wanted to tell if there must be another Matrix, instead of stepping aside and watch the studio silently suffocating her baby.
When Valhalla calls, you answer and fight... that spark, that grind... isn't that what life all about? When Zion was free, Morpheus believed there work is done... yet the machine civil war sealed his fate... the work is never done. You can't stop as long as you breathe as life has the nasty habit of creeping up on you.
If how hyped I am from seeing the film yesterday is any indication of where Lana is at after making it, she might be up for it. But that is her choice, and we will have to trust that. And be grateful for whatever ammo she and anyone with an impact on our life throw our way to push on with our own journey.
Dude WTF! You're so awesome. Finally some youtuber appreciates the movie instead of complaining nonstop. This has been the best review on UA-cam so far.
I didn't mind Resurrections but I didn't see it as something great. It was just okay with mainly ideas but the executions left a lot to be desired.
I would have liked some ideas changed for the narrative and here are my thoughts.
- Neo basically created a "backdoor" for what he remembers of Morpheus (supposedly). Yet he only has subconciously remembers fragments. Is that why Morpheus in his programmed iterations acts a little "loose" compared to how Morpheus was portrayed by Laurence Fishburne? Who introduced the changes? Was it the analyst knowing about the base code backdoor and it introducing the "missing elements" to complete this iteration of the Matrix? Or, was this changed caused by the modal loop and how the AI for Morpheus "evolved" in the modal? If it is due to the modal loop, it doesn't make sense if the atmosphere is based on Matrix 1.
- I wish they really went with it if they really wanted to explore Neo being used by the Analyst as the "Base" or "source code" (as it were) for this new iteration of the Matrix. Instead of introducing it simply as a union of 2 parts (Neo and Trinity), I hoped instead to have seen that when Neo awoke, he would end up seeing clones of himself in various stages of development. And we get a reveal that we are only seeing the "Current" Neo husk being used while the other Neo husks are plugged into the Matrix living their lives unknowing they are clones of Neo because of DSI. Why would they need (younger) Clones of Neo? Well, supposedly unplugging "The One" from the Matrix will cause it to become unstable. What would happen when Neo ages/dies? They'd need a replacement. Hence why you'd need to plug in the "new" base husk as it were. And what about the mind of the younger husk to be used? We have our answer with Matrix 3, Smith injecting himself into living brains/people plugged into the Matrix, but just done more subtlely by the Analyst. And in this regard, is what makes Neo "The One" his body, his mind or a combination of both? If it was just his mind, then why bother with the clone when you can inject him to anyone else in a "prime" age/maturation. I think it would have been a nice thought exercise to introduce to the Matrix.
- One major thought I also had and hoped they did instead was to introduce Trinity, with the DSI as well, but I hoped that the story would have instead revealed later on that Trinity is dead but whenever Neo is plugged into the Matrix he can manifest Trinity inside because, like Morpheus, Neo being the source code/base of the new Matrix of the Analyst, he'd be able to also create Trinity inside the Matrix as "the one he chose to save/love", yet he has no clear memory of her because of the blue pill dosing of the analyst. This would have been able to somewhat bring up the idea wherein even in death, the persons we love will always be a part of us. This will still be able to keep the 2 parts make the whole (ala One Winged Angel of him and her) to allow Neo to be "The One" again inside this new Matrix. The closer he is to his "missing code", the more his powers can be displayed. This would then explain why he wouldn't be able to fly without Trinity with him. A reverse Hancock idea if you will inside the Matrix.
- Machine City and where the "human battery camp" is will not cover a whole continent by my guess with how the bodies are stacked. Supposedly this new iteration of the Matrix produces more energy with how it is programmed to feed off negative emotion (if I understood it correctly). Since it has also been at least 60 years since Matrix 3, I thought we would have found out there is another "instance" of the Matrix/Machine City running in another part of the world because of how the Analyst seemed to frame talking to the "suits" and performance. I would have supposed there is a point of comparison and not just historical performance only. So if say this is the US Matrix, could there be an EU Matrix? Asian Matrix? African Matrix? It would make sense especially since the Matrix as a world is able to be "co-populated" with bots and/or synthients. Just a thought.
Be honest. It's terrible and I don't say this because I wanted it to be. I wanted to be surprised and entertained. I wasn't. It's one of the worst movies I've seen in a long time.
@@miltonkiller707 i went in with spoilers already so i dont have trouble with references or callbacks. I had low to no expectations coming in to the movie. And i think that at least help make it digestible as an okay movie. I didnt care whether it existed or not nor do i have any desire to rewatch it.
There was some cool new ideas but the main thing that stuck out like a sore thumb for me was the action. There is not one memorable action sequence in this entire movie that comes close to anything in the other movies. You got the lobby scene in the first one, the great hall and highway scene in Reloaded, and the defense of Zion and the great Neo vs Smith fight at the end of Revolutions. Name one scene from Resurrections that comes close. The action was a bunch of quick cuts and you could barely tell what was happening.
You 100% right, this movie could have been awesome, but it lacks the memorable action sequences that we were expecting from a Matrix movie.
I’d say the most memorable action scene was the swarm towards the end. But I enjoyed it all. The suits chasing Bugs at the beginning, the reintroduction of Smith and Neo, their little sequence in the abandoned building, the Tokyo train, the swarm. There was a lot of memorable action moments. The reason that they don’t feel as impactful is because Lana put more emphasis on the story she was telling by alleviating the danger by not killing off any of the new crew. She even poked fun by giving the line of dialogue between the two new crew members. They talked about how during Neo’s quest to save Zion that he got almost all of his crew members killed and finished it off with “yeah, we’re definitely gonna die” or something to that effect. Also stylistically they shot the action differently. The cameras were not still long shots like the original Trilogy, but that’s not a problem seeing as the tone of this movie was very different.
The bots jumping out the window was pretty good. It also was better paced with the action than the other films
Oh you didn't like when Neo fights a couple of homeless people that are with the homeless-Merovingian ?
I never watched for the fights.
The Sheeple always want the same Herculean story fed to them over and over again, even if it means sacrificing creative freedom and creating something new. This movie is an allegory to that very concept. Emotional manipulation, childhood egotism. We as human beings live vicariously through our experiences, we imagine ourselves as the characters on an unconscious level. This is the emotional construct that so many movies emulate to control our emotions; in reality there is very little substance in nearly every modern production. I had a revelation whilist drinking two Steel Reserves 211's and watching the Chronicles of Riddick reboot. Why was I enjoying this movie? Simply put, I came to the realization that it was because I saw myself as Riddick himself and was vicariously living through the experience and thereof the excitement of being Riddick himself. Only to realize, that this is a mental construct and has little to do with reality. People go to the movies to experience a sense of escapism from reality, to live vicariously through characters such as John Wick as if they would've taken the same actions as he did in that given situation. The audience projects themselves onto the character as if they were TRULY living out the fiction they are experiencing.
This is why the hero's tale has become an expectation; our childhood egos search for that affirmation even though we ourselves have become disillusioned as adults. We long for a return to our childhood selves and the fairytales that are all too familiar.
So in a sense, you can logically argue that The Matrix Resurrections is a bad movie by those standards. It fails to provide an immersive escapism into fantasy.
Instead it does the lateral opposite, it offers you the Red Pill. It offers you the human experience of being the observer of something greater. It gives you the human experience and a hopeful ending that summarizes what it means to be human. Creativity, to think and grow outside of your boundaries. The universal force of gravity which we call love...
At first I was disappointed in the final sequence. I had expected a final anime-esque battle between good VS evil; instead I got something unexpected and refreshing.
This at first, left me feeling disappointed that it was the final act to The Matrix. The final boss was against a cold lifeless machine, a helicopter flown by a pilot that lacked any free will. However, I realized the true beauty of the message. The more time goes by after I watched the film, the more I've grown to appreciate it and its beautiful ending.
I've been searching for ways to contact Lana to express my gratitude and the inspiration the film has brought in my personal life as a creative force. Poetically enough, she has no social media account that I could find and I can only hope this message can somehow reach her.
Tho it's a bit llooonnng, I luv your comment.
It connects and resonates.
Hope it reaches Lana. She'd like it. ;-)
Peace out
Nice to know I’m not the only one that had a good time with the film
I enjoyed Matrix 4 but it had a lot of flaws to it. Some small details like Trinity knowing how to fly randomly and some story problems... but all in all, it was a very enjoyable experience
I get that for sure, but I'm glad you enjoyed it over all! Thanks for watching man.
@@FilmSpeak Your Welcome!
To be fair, I’m not sure if it’s ever explained how Neo himself knows how to fly. He just does it.
@@robobrando And it never will be explained how Neo knows how to fly just like how it will never be explained how operators know how to read the matrix code
@@robobrando The whole point of become the One is that you can manipulate the code of the matrix, that's how he can fly. He's not limited by the creators programming.
BRAVO!!!! This is the kind of review that The Matrix Resurrections deserves.
Man thank you so much for this video! I've seen peeps repeatedly complain about Resurrections and I'm like... Do you even know why this film was made? Did we watch the same film???? So yeah, thank you for pointing out its brilliance and please .. SAY IT LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK!!
Boy do I wonder how this video would look like if you could still see the dislike count.
Good vid. With you on most everything - especially regarding The Matrix Resurrections... Where we have a HUGE disagree is on The Last Jedi. To me, and I believe time will bear this out, TLJ is one of the greater Star Wars films in the entire canon.
Hmm...gonna hard disagree on that last bit. I don't think it fits in with Lucas canon. None of the Sequels do imo. That said, I almost feel like TLJ is a good standalone movie. If it was a "What If" scenario, or an alternative universe. I think its very well-made, and I enjoyed a lot of the Rey/Kylo stuff, but I just don't think its good for Star Wars as a whole.
@@awakenow7147 TLJ is the best piece of official Star Wars fan fiction, but its a shit Star Wars movie.
TLJ isn't even canon. George Lucas didn't make that film or any of the other Disney films.
@@rayvonvelez3129 Wow... Y'all get all sure get pressed attempting to define/own/defend the "Lucas canon" up in here... Okay, discard my term canon then. OF THE NINE FILMS from Phantom to Rise, TLJ is one of the very best films of the bunch. Period. And it will only GROW in appreciation and status - as it already is (similar to Empire) - as time goes on... Don't take my word for it. Just watch. History will be very kind to it.
@@matthewlong3710 well I hope so. TLJ is my favorite of the sequels
Thank you for this! I know that movies get repackaged many times, in a "money grab", as you said. But I did not feel that way with this movie. Looking at all the negative reviews it has received, I feel disheartened that maybe a lot of people did not approach with an open mind. I appreciate your positive approach, and wish more movie reviewers would try to remain a bit more positive.
I approached the movie with an open mind 5 times already. There are some cool ideas but I can’t get myself to say the movie is good when it’s petty existence makes my head ache. Everything that made the old trilogy great was either completely missing or changed for the worse in M.IV. There was no cool action, no well-made combat scenes, neo just spams “expelliarmus”, the cgi looks much worse than 22 years ago, smith&morpheus are parodies of the original and the meta comedy just gets more annoying the more often you watch it. The ending sucks ass, many things don’t make a whole lot of sense which is painful considering how well thought-through the originals were. Resurrections itself tells you in the opening act that it was made “for those who love to eat shit” and personally I’m not a huge fan of shit.
People hated the trilogy too. All folks liked was the special effects. Society has always been too dumbed down to appreciate these films.
@@DevonRyeTheDragonfly see. No offense but, idiot level response. "There wasn't enough cool action!" Smh. Cant help these folks. Mentally obtuse. The films have never been about cool action scenes. Its always been about the dialogue. Always. Smh. Over your heads. Leave us alone with your baby talk.
This version of the matrix is the 7th version the number 7 is a very spiritual number.
In Hinduism and Bhuddishm it is believed that there are 6-9 realms or realities. Each plane with its own set of laws and conditions. Since the matrix films are an allegory for the existence of consciousness within the perception of humans it’s plausible to believe that the real world is a simulation that operates independently within its own boundaries but fundamentally it is part of a cycle of domains.
In hermetics the second universal law is that of correspondence - as above so below.
Just like reincarnation and karma. What you do in this life affects what you become or what you do in the next life. The matrix and the real world represent the lower dimensions of reality i.e. hell, this correlates to the first three lower chakras: root chakra, sacral and solar plexus. Neo and trinity together represent the fourth chakra which is the heart chakra. Coincidence as this is the fourth movie.
Number four also represents time, the fourth dimension. This is why in resurrections we see many cuts and flashbacks to the original trilogy, this represents the past. The 7th version of the matrix takes place in the modern day 21st century (present) and when Neo wakes up in the real world he learns that 60 years have past since he saved Zion (future). If you decode the matrix mathematically you see how intricate, metaphysical, profound and revealing each movie truly is and how transcendental the franchise is as a whole because it subverts expectations and challenges you to question your own existence and perception of reality.
If you consider each movie in sequence then you see how each feature serves its purpose flawlessly.
The first movie represents the number one: meaning perfection, originality, creation.
This is why everyone loved the original film the most. It’s pedigree is undeniable, it will never be replicated or surpassed. There will never ever be a better matrix film then the first film. It is the one and only exception.
The number two represents duality, instability, complication, again most people loathe matrix reloaded because it’s the middle chapter, it has no beginning nor end. The third film represents resolution, cohesion, finality. Metaphorically if the first film is “birth” second one is “life” then the third represents “death”. Just as easy as - 1,2,3. Resurrections represents four, meaning time, fourth dimension, quantum entanglement, multiverse, system & order, versatility, multiprocessing (neo running a module, subroutine within the matrix), repetition, four also represents a sequence.
Like making a beat - and a one and a two and a three and four!”
Just some food for thought.
@@master-of-mind5881 that's deep, bruh
The first Matrix film was spectacular in a lot of ways but wasn't everyone's cup of tea. Many were drawn by the effects and action but not particularly by its philosophical underpinnings. It took years of discourse and undeniable influence to cement its reputation. Reloaded and Revolutions had their fair share of hate, dislike and dissatisfaction. Interestingly, they seem to sit comfortably well today than they did before. The wow factor has mostly been the top selling aspect of The Matrix films despite the fact that there's more meat to them, which understandably, has its dedicated fanbase or 'devotees'. Resurrection feels familiar yet different in interesting ways. With all that massive hate or dislike, I have the feeling many are going to have to eat their hats--especially upon further consideration or potential sequel that sheds more light on the creative choices or direction.
Thats what they said about the last jedi
I sat in theaters and watched the original Matrix film multiple times, I don't remember all this negative reception. I don't recall seeing people "warm up" to it's philosophies.
@Shieldsy it's almost like it was released during a global pandemic
@Shieldsy idk i don't care about that movie and i didn't go see either of them. I bought Resurrections though
@Shieldsy I don't care about Marvel 😂 I haven't seen any of the Tom Holland films. I only care about the upcoming Spider-Verse movie!
I've seen Matrix Resurrections three times and it's still amazing. How much something sells isn't the only indicator of its worth.
I really liked the first half of Matrix Resurrections - the machines joining humans, building new Zion. The second half had some questionable moments but overall I liked the film a lot.
I thought the film was great. It's one you have to watch several times to really appreciate. So many great ideas and a beautiful love story right in the middle of it. So difficult to try and make a sequel to the last that makes sense and still interesting. I absolutely loved the way they brought them back. If you truly hated it just TRY and give it another chance while asking how in the hell you would write this if asked
Once the story was explained I could see it’s brilliance but when I watched it I thought it was garbage. I think it’s because I they didn’t quite execute it well.
She stepped in before WB Made it without her. The fact that she used the film to mention and critique WB is what made this awesome. As well as talk about other things
I agree but I would extend it because she criticizes many relevant things from internet troll comments (Swarm mode) to how capitalism is endlessly adaptable and can even cash in on the things that criticize it (they took all that you achieved and turned it into something as trivial as a video game). It's also a critiqu of movie audiences watching things at face-value and only ever peeling away the first layer of the onion, if at all and not getting the deeper messages a film wants to tell because they're prioritizing all the wrong things like mindless action.
@@Lia-uf1ir yes that line yes, it was a stand out. I agree, their seems to be a lack of analysis. I get why people were looking for action, (which they got) but there was so much more. Ah well. In a few year maybe ppl will look back and see the extra layers. We can only hope
@@HeyHeyForMe I have hope given that Reloaded and Revolutions were similarly hated on when they came out. Also, the lack of analysis that you mentioned is actually what the merovingian criticizes in his cameo, if you listn closely.
@@Lia-uf1irlet me go and listen to that bit properly 😂 so I get it
@@Lia-uf1ir That's really astute. Perhaps you've come across the following response, perhaps not.
A little over three years ago, some obscure channel posted a video which might have caused all of this. Seek out Milton Killer's Matrix Easter Eggs and follow the video links. You have to pay attention and read stuff, though. There's a video with a Larry Wachowski confession and another one debunking a fake victim. Watch the latter first, and you could be looking at what got under Larry Wachowski's skin, causing him to #^+@ up big time with this choler fueled personal statement called Matrix Resurrections. There's nothing worse than an emperor with no clothes, challenged to prove itself -- publicly!
This was not a great film experience for me. It honestly felt like a fan fiction screen play. Nobody dies, so upon replay there’s absolutely zero tension or risk. And suddenly Keanu Reeves isn’t capable of holding a gun? There was so much firearm foreplay in the first film, and here they have John Wick at their disposal and all he can do is force push? Just wow. Don’t tell me you weren’t missing Lawrence Fishburn and Hugo Weaving. What they attempted in those two actors’ absence was so weak. Thomas’s development partner TRIES to deliver a few Agent Smith/ Hugo Weaving lines with such weak results they literally have to flash Hugo lip syncing even as the guy is talking. Btw what happened to the story line of that character? He just leaves the screen? Nearly all of the crew are cookie cutter and forgettable. I STILL can picture in my mind TWENTY years later Tank zapping Cypher for killing his brother Dozer and spits on his corpse. I can still see Switch and Apoc collapsing when they’re fatally unplugged.. and I can picture mouse “the digital pimp hard at work” trying to sell Neo time with the simulated woman in the red dress while they all slurp down amino acid goop. What character development was there with any of the new crew of this film. Was there any? The new partnership between the human city IO and the machines was a great idea and the best new element of this fourth film, but Niobe’s character was uninteresting, poorly acted and underwhelming in my opinion. Btw “channeling a catharsis into a story” isn’t in itself a good thing. Lana had a responsibility to Matrix Trilogy FANS. Instead she chose to write her diary onto the cinematic screen. While it’s valid in its own right, it’s completely unsatisfactory for the vast majority us who LOVE the Matrix story and did such a disservice to our favorite characters. I loved the idea of Trinity being the “other one”, but she had literally so little time with any powers or action in this film, she was wayyy more of a Bada$$ in the first two films without the powers of The One! What a letdown! Imagine if we had gotten even a third of the film with Trinity being completely unstoppable. Yes please. This film needed way more development and should’ve been made in 2010.
What a letdown! Personally I intend to pretend it doesn’t exist and continue to watch the trilogy and let the story end there in my mind. Where it absolutely should have. 3/10 for me.
it notices that you didnt catch the vid
You're right, they could have done so much more with Trinity, but think about it, they could have done a lot more with Neo as well. Could you imagine if he would have gone through a few downloads of Kung fu and gun mechanics? And then brought in Trinity to be his anchor, like in the first movie? Neo could have redeveloped his powers and then taught Trinity how to wield them in some kind of training, where she could have been a natural badass as she was in the first 3 movies. The point is, they had John Wick and Neo and they did nothing in this film, and the reason for that is quite simple, if they had, everyone would be talking about it, and the bullshit they wanted to empress on the public would have been lost. So no fight scenes of any caliber and only a carbon copy of Morpheus. Like everything in our world today, they want to take the testosterone out of it. That is why even the love scenes are not as moving as the ones in the first 3 movies.
I liked the film. I liked that it subverted the fanboy expectations. It was a red pill meta commetary on a few subjects, the hollywood machine, the expectations of audiences, and nostalgia. I also appreciate that this was Lana's cathartic creation to help her cope with a familial tragedy. Resurrections is not an attempt to start more sequels. It is a thoughful epilogue to the trilogy, and gives us a nice peek into the aftermath of Neo's sacrifice. Neo and Trinity are now ONE.
I just now finished it and I gotta admit it was a decent movie and it wasn't all bad like the mainstream audience said about it. These days I judge the movie after I finish watching it and I form my own opinion. It was interesting because the psychologist resurrected neo and it was an all new take on the matrix story after the death of neo and the resurrections of the matrix and neo in general. I do hope there is a 5th one and maybe in the next one neo and trinity become mentors to the next ones that become the main heros but it's just an idea.
I think a lot of the "Fanboys" wanted a "return to form" and were disappointed, complaining that it was a "cash grab," without knowing or caring about Lana's real reasoning behind the themes of the film.
@@numb3r5ev3nSo they're a cliché.
@@numb3r5ev3nThe fanboys didn't want a new movie at all because they knew it was going to be a shitshow like this movie. Nobody asked for a 4th movie, the story was finished. And with this pseudo-criticism of the movie studios, which is so obvious and stupid, they didn't do themselves any favors either. Luckily the movie failed so badly that WB will probably never think about making another one.
That's the DUMBEST thing I've heard in a long time! NO Matrix fan wanted this sequel. It was more unwanted by fans, than Jason Bourne was by Bourne Trilogy fans! I think just like Bourne fans would have rather seen Aaron Cross or another Treadstone agent, we would have seen another group in the Matrix on a different quest. Stop blaming shit movie's and scripts on "fan expectations".
A major issue for me was not seeing enough of Io and the society that Niobe was fighting for. Did people even live in that city?
I agree, I wanted to see more of that! I also wanted to see more from Sati, she had much more potential than she was given in the film.
"The Matrix Resurrections is a bunch of really good ideas stacked together to make a bad - and sometimes ugly - film" - someone from IGN. Couldn't say better myself. The first Matrix is still unbeatable for me.
Yeah yeah, I get all what Lana was going for with this film, personally and meta wise. She just didn't quite stick the landing. "Everything looks terrific thanks to twenty-plus years of advancements in effects work." Then why do the effects in this film look ten times cheaper than they did in the first film? Not to mention the lackluster hand-to-hand fight scenes that have no style or panache.
Right? Neo literally used the same move the whole 3rd act. And I got tired of all the endless shooting and running on walls and not one character dies
I'm starting to wonder if this effect was intentional. Almost like its designed to satirize the fight sequences. It has an unsatisfying feeling because they're trying to repeat the same thing again as they do in sequels. Then there is the fact that they are in the new Analyst version of the matrix, or at least the "off-grid" version that Neo and Trinity are in. Which could imply that physics in the world don't work the same way. He even mocks the bullet time effect and uses it to antagonize the heroes.
I'll give you that the fight scenes don't have as good choreography or inspired camera work... but why does everybody say the effects aren't good? Everything looks fine in this movie, effects-wise. Better than a lot of stuff in Reloaded, anyway. I had no problem with the CGI or action sequences on an effects level. What looked cheap?
@@AWSVids when the bugs character was jumping in the beginning of the movie and doing flips. The pods also looked cheaper compared to the first one and when neo was getting transported by the flying robot thing. And that small robot
This was mental kung fu, comfort the disturb, disturb the comfortable type shit
As much as I didn’t like matrix 4, I respect the personality and passion behind it. There’s a soul in there, and that’s all you can ask for.
Quality, usually all I ask for is quality
A well written story, would actually be all we can ask for.
@@Kalopsia666 it’s the best written story in the entire series by far. Go read Descartes meditations 1-4, brush up on your numerology and Zoroastrian dualism concepts and then go watch it again. This video barely began to scratch the surface.
@@304Blaise I’m going to assume you’re being sarcastic. Because these days it’s impossible to tell.
@@Kalopsia666 not at all. Just read some books and you’d understand.
I agree is meticously thought out and executed, as all the previous ones, people seem to dissmiss it too hastily, like it is fast food and not a piece of art. In some years, perhaps it will be another cult movie or a classic. Really great analysis here, spot on.
I agree. #MatrixResurrections is a #pieceOfArt not fast food for masses.
Funnily enough in the same line of thought if you remember the dialogue in between Neo & the new Ag. Smith in his office, they speak of exactly this.
Similarly when the Analyst mentions what drives the masses "desire & fear", not quality.
Also, this analysis is beautifully done.
There is nothing inherently good about this movie. It rehashes shit from the previous films. No good fight scenes. And a useless plot.
@@imsentinelprime9279 That´s exactly what we mean: that is such a lame commentary, not even close to a thought out critique, and some how bots like this "think" they have an understanding of the movie they couldn´t even see because of their own consumer expectatives. Which is precisely one of the themes of the movie.
@@juanverde1361 I am obsessed with the old Matrix movies and I didn’t like this one at all. I prefer movies that make me think but I could just watch the original Matrix and get a superior experience. Just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should. Matrix 4 is a perfect example of that.
This movie is complicated for me. After watching it the first time I was completely disappointed thought it was horrible. But it left me thinking and questioning it so much that I was compelled to watch it again. After the second viewing I really enjoy it. It's not perfect but the ideas that this movie presented are very interesting. It's has more philosophical points than 2 and 3. They definitely could have left out the flashback clips from the previous movies.
What are you even talking about. You haven’t understood the movies if you believe Resurrections makes more philosophical points than Reloaded. Reloaded was the single most philosophical out of all of them. Resurrections confuses modern left wing identity politics with philosophy. Reloaded was about causality, the illusion of free will and the philosophical deconstruction of prophecy, good & evil and multi-layered meaning. The scenes with the merovingian, the oracle and architect flew right over people’s heads and still to this day the *vast* majority people don’t seem to understand what’s going on in Matrix II. This movie, Resurrections, lacked all the subtlety that made things in the trilogy interesting. People with specific life experiences and knowledge of philosophical and scientific concepts loved the subtlety, they loved hearing the architect or the Merovingian talk about these concepts while others didn’t even have the awareness span required to listen. And even if they did listen to most it would as new morpheus so eloquently put it just be a bunch of “blah, blah, blah”.
Resurrections is in your face about everything. Since people in our world still don’t understand anything about science, their own conscious experience and the nature of things, now Warner Bros. feel like they have to remind you directly, three times in the movie that there’s no choice. In the old trilogy they were MUCH more clever and subtle about these kinds of things. This movie is a fuck you to everyone, including to people like you who just “love to eat shit”. This movie is the cheapest version of the Matrix by far and when it comes to EVERY aspect.
As someone who understands consciousness and the most relevant philosophical and naturalistic concepts I don’t want someone to wave their finger and explain things that shouldn’t even be explained to someone who already understands anyways. I loved the “hidden” symbols, the subtlety and the paradoxical opposition of inner and outer world, the metaphorical explanations for the properties of consciousness, the debate of causality vs. free agency and the fact that these concepts are so differentiated that even if they are resolved people don’t really get it if they don’t get it. I watched the trilogy many many many times until I got most of what was going on.
It took me watching Resurrections twice to get everything and I still watched it 3 more times just because I wanted to like the movie. All I experienced was more annoyance with the way it is blatantly written, the meta comedy and the butchering of Morpheus, Smith & Neo as well as the general butchering of one of the most iconic franchises ever.
@@DevonRyeTheDragonfly Thank you for wasting your time on a dummy like me with the 4 paragraphs. With that said your comment is full of TRUTH. I agree with a lot. Matrix reloaded is my favorite Because of my time and place. Its hard to choose the best they all are connected. The original is Geneisis. Anyway in modern times with resurrections it addresses ideas with bots/ npc "soulless body's" used to distract us. Medicine / pharmakeia used to numb us and hold us back make us dependent and slaves. And the analyst use of fear and pleasure to control the sheeple. I see it all around our "real" world so that resonates. I like the ideas of the new movie but i agree it could have been executed better. But o well it's what we got. Move on and make lemonade out of the lemons.
@@DevonRyeTheDragonfly I wish I could give you a sticker for your monologue. It was chaotic and a terrific waste of time, just like the movie. Very meta.
SUCH AN AMAZING VIDEO
I wish there were cooler action scenes. The first one had many awesome ones
Yeah, I can get behind that.
You can thank Jet Li for that
Problems with The Matrix Resurrections:
- Story was not interesting at all
- Dialog was terrible and very cringe at times.
- Fight choreography was terrible (You know you have a problem when Cobra Kai has better fight choreography than the Matrix).
No. You can give this same speech, exactly the same for reloaded and/or revelations. This did not have to be retold. Times, technology and arcance/outdated views will ALWAYS change generationally. A good story for me would have been the glossed over story about how the lack of resources caused infighting among the machines. How Neo kept failing at his reboot and the revelation of the need for Trinity. How the machines formed alliances with the humans. How Sati's parents were mislead which lead to their purge. The fall of zion and the rise of IO, etc. The story was there..... it just wasnt told.
I like the Matrix 4, but some things are lazy here: fight scenes (are bad) and a bit of cgi. this is a small matrix movie for millions of dollars. I love the soundtrack. 7+/10
Somehow all these opinions in the comments have a resemblance with the game bot team....sorry. It's so easy to like or not like, because we want more or it was too much.... It was all a matrix should be! this is the proof. It will go through the test of time and will resonate with many people who have lived so much through out these years. Life hits you when you dare to live, but that's what makes you feel alive. " It's so much simpler to bury reality then it is to dispose of dreams." It's faithful but definitely not just more of the same. It's new and fresh and it elevated the story. This movie made me feel many things...Lana is a master at her craft.
{Life hits you when you dare to live, but that's what makes you feel alive. " It's so much simpler to bury reality then it is to dispose of dreams."}
Selenia, I call jinx cuz, impossibly, I said that line all in my head @ "Life...", raised my head and thought that whole line cuz your line of thought slid me there, and I was thinking of the Classic bathroom scene with the genius quote. Then I read on and was like W H A T !? ;-)
Kismet, woah.
And I agree, "Resurrections " elevates the story.
Gr8 film!
Luv your comment.
After watching Sophie from Mars video analysis of the original trilogy and seeing it through a trans lense it’s impossible to not see all the symbolism and appreciate the movie so much more.
Ah ha ha what stupidity
Loved this film. The Matrix is kin to the dangling carrot society keeps chasing vs connecting within to their soul. 🥕🐇 🕳
Example: Neo and Trinity’s Divine soul connection. Too many just didn’t get it. Sign of the times.
Yup. My thoughts exactly.
You have to know Buddhism, Numerology
And the basics of Zoroastrian dualism to even say you’ve watched the matrix resurrections.
A genius level film that is so alienating to its audience that it won’t be seen as a masterpiece for years to come.
This film was shit.
Thank you for putting this into words and a well crafted video...as a matrix fan I loved the film in the context of the original films, the director and our present day circumstances, if they never make another one then at least this was a great way to end it
When people heard there was a new Matrix movie coming, they were reminded of the feeling they got watching the unique original, and expected two decades worth of progress in visual effects, and perhaps the maturation of the creators of the original movie, to present something spectacular, or at the very least, making some form of progress.
This new movie serves only as confession. It proves the writer had nothing to do with the success of that original movie.
Firstly, right off the bat, we are introduced to a concept relegating the original trilogy to nothing more than a video game! Of all the contemptuous things to do, this was the worst choice. Remember a decade or so back when VR and AAA video games were a fad? People expected that some time soon, games would mimic movies: that you would be able to choose how to navigate through a movie level narrative. That didn't quite pan out. Video games proved to be a separate genre, despised even by connoisseurs of cinema. The two mediums are completely incompatible and deliver different highs and responses. Games are forgettable mishmashes of the latest gaudy CG graphics, exploiting visual effects to the point of irrelevance. That the writer of the fourth Matrix movie relegated the original in the prescribed way is tantamount to disowning it, and why would they do that?
Moving on, we were taken directly out of the so-called narrative to be told that Thomas Anderson was in a dispute with the studio over who wrote which line! Then we are told that the studio threatened to continue the story without the writers! Why?
Why take this odd path?
These are manifestations of the writer's subconscious thoughts.
If it was just a random choice, it wouldn't have been augmented by The Merovingian's cameo, which we will get to in a moment.
At this point, it seems as though the writer is distancing himself from the originals. It's almost preparing the audience to accept the shoddy craftsmanship to come - explaining clearly that the original was based on the work of someone else.
We get some insight into this from the comments of Andy Wachowski, who excused himself from proceedings, citing commitments to another project at the time (2019). Andy Wachowski publicly stated that he hopes this new movie would be better than the original! Hmm. Really? Why? Wasn't the original movie his most successful enterprise? Why would he believe that what we got in 2021 could be better than the original Matrix?
Lo and behold, prompting a cruddy fight sequence, The Merovingian shows up, looking down on his luck (from the writer's perspective), frothing at the mouth about something.
Uncanny it is. He's complaining about having his unfinished work squandered!
Are you starting to get the picture here?
Now, some people believe the movie is a tongue in cheek middle finger at Warner Brothers. They couldn't be more deluded.
There's no way on earth that Warner Brothers would allow it. They are aware that this attitude was directed toward an individual. Warner Brothers, in the movie, alongside The Merovingian, represents the person whose stolen work made The Wachowski's fame and fortune.
How can we determine this?
Well... if you pay attention to the marquee slide scene, when "Bugs" negotiates a sign reading: "Anderson's," you get a glimpse into what the writer is actually thinking.
The sign reads: "Anderson's" and is subtitled: "For all those who eat shit." "Eat shit" is highlighted in bold.
Does this sound like a middle finger at Warner Brothers to you?
We have:
1) A writer named "Anderson" discussing which lines belonged to whom
1a) An excuse about having to do a fourth movie, because the story would be continued one way or another
2) A hidden message: "Anderson's" and the barb: "Eat shit!"
3) A cameo of an old character who looks like he's been doing just that, complaining about having his work squandered.
This is a repost. After reading how easily swayed you were, I felt it my duty to open your eyes a little.
@@miltonkiller707 I still enjoyed the film 🤘😈
@@ParanormalMetalMan Really, I don't see how anyone could, but each to his own I guess. The point I am making is that shameless plagiarism of an unprotected work, as opposed to inspiration from established publications, is both wrong, and proof that the writer of the new movie has zero talent and no right at all to be making these movies. If you do care enough to want to see the humble effort upon which the Wachowskis falsely made names for themselves, what you're looking for is called The Ciphermen (as in the character "Cypher" who they created as a tongue in cheek barb). For me, as it seems also for them, this actual fact distances the original 1999 movie from all that followed.
EXCELLENT analysis
The video starts at 3:35. You're velcome.
I thought it was pretty meta that the new version of the matrix was literally made by reconstructing Neo & Trinity and using them as it's center 😂
The concept of the matrix is super meta. This movie has in your face meta moments (you know what scene I’m talking about), but we can’t forget that the matrix is inherently meta and always has been.
This version of the matrix is the 7th version the number 7 is a very spiritual number.
In Hinduism and Bhuddishm it is believed that there are 6-9 realms or realities. Each plane with its own set of laws and conditions. Since the matrix films are an allegory for the existence of consciousness within the perception of humans it’s plausible to believe that the real world is a simulation that operates independently within its own boundaries but fundamentally it is part of a cycle of domains.
In hermetics the second universal law is that of correspondence - as above so below.
Just like reincarnation and karma. What you do in this life affects what you become or what you do in the next life. The matrix and the real world represent the lower dimensions of reality i.e. hell, this correlates to the first three lower chakras: root chakra, sacral and solar plexus. Neo and trinity together represent the fourth chakra which is the heart chakra. Coincidence as this is the fourth movie.
Number four also represents time, the fourth dimension. This is why in resurrections we see many cuts and flashbacks to the original trilogy, this represents the past. The 7th version of the matrix takes place in the modern day 21st century (present) and when Neo wakes up in the real world he learns that 60 years have past since he saved Zion (future). If you decode the matrix mathematically you see how intricate, metaphysical, profound and revealing each movie truly is and how transcendental the franchise is as a whole because it subverts expectations and challenges you to question your own existence and perception of reality.
If you consider each movie in sequence then you see how each feature serves its purpose flawlessly.
The first movie represents the number one: meaning perfection, originality, creation.
This is why everyone loved the original film the most. It’s pedigree is undeniable, it will never be replicated or surpassed. There will never ever be a better matrix film then the first film. It is the one and only exception.
The number two represents duality, instability, complication, again most people loathe matrix reloaded because it’s the middle chapter, it has no beginning nor end. The third film represents resolution, cohesion, finality. Metaphorically if the first film is “birth” second one is “life” then the third represents “death”. Just as easy as - 1,2,3. Resurrections represents four, meaning time, fourth dimension, quantum entanglement, multiverse, system & order, versatility, multiprocessing (neo running a module, subroutine within the matrix), repetition, four also represents a sequence.
Like making a beat - and a one and a two and a three and four!”
Just some food for thought..
@@master-of-mind5881 love your take on it all. Only The matrix franchise and west world (of what I’ve seen so far) have actually made me think about our own perception of reality
@@superdrewper7883 What you are looking for is called The Ciphermen. It's an extremely amateurish fanfic style comic book proposal script which was handed to the Wachowskis in 1993. Once you study the work, you will realize that the Wachowskis have absolutely zero talent. You'll also begin to appreciate what the fourth movie is actually about.
I hate that you are going to get so much hate for a well articulated and valid review of this movie. I didn't hate it, just the horrible cgi background for the sati scenes. I'll chalk it up to covid though.
Don’t hate that. Love it. You’re a red pill. We need blue pills to stay in their pods
It reminds me in that regard on the third season of Twin Peaks. Lynch has been pressured for 25 years to follow up and give closure. When he did, he did it on his terms. Not giving the Twin Peaks of old, but a changed one. A Twin Peaks that reminds us of the old one, but doesn't use it's nostalgia to comfort us, but to take us on a new journey - and it doesn't care if we like it or not. Lynch just continued the Story the way he needed to do, without intervention of the studios.
I have to say that I don't know if I like Matrix 4 so far. I don't dislike it. I can clearly see that it is not a cash grab, but an attempt to continue the series in a unique and personal way. I just don't know if I get the message it's trying to send out. Maybe I need more time.
The Matrix Resurrections didn’t disappointed me at all.
I love the first three Matrix movies and i love Resurrections even more. For me it's absolutely perfect. Thank you so much for this wonderful video.
Loved it too, bud. I couldn't agree with you more, start to finish.
Excellent review. Hopefully more people will see this. Just like the originals there are so many layers of meanings in these films. Part 4 was almost perfect imo. Thank you again for this breakdown.
Nope, it was crap. You're both wrong.
@@sladewilson9741 Honestly bro no he’s not his opinion is his opinion and his opinion is right because it’s his opinion sure you can think it’s crap that’s your opinion which that opinion is also right because it your opinion
@@zombiexslayer614 you are correct
You seem too young to say things like this scene was a dream sequence for a legacy sequel. Especially when it's about such a bad legacy sequel. This movie felt like a Netflix spinoff.
*in old captain america*
“No, I don’t think I will”
I honestly couldn’t disagree more. This movie takes all the bad parts of reboots and sequels and shoved it all together, it’s like someone was like hmm should we do a reboot or make a sequel then said fuck it and tried to do both🤣🤣
Loved the movie! Still hoping for more. If not, then this is a good way to end.
it wasn't terrible but it only left me with one question after watching - why? it really wasn't necessary and it really felt like a nostalgia bait cashgrab, especially for me who rewatched the trilogy for the n-th time aswell before watching 4. Hell, the trailer made me think and speculate more than the movie itself with snippets that seemed like something out of a great film only to turn out a dud. The only thing I guessed right was Trinity being the one and that's the only real positive I found from that angle. Sure, it was nice to see jabs at hollywood and some other concepts tossed around in the film, but why do I need to know the directors biography spanning these 20 years to "get it" when other films, even the greatest ones never did? including the pinnacle that is the first matrix itself?
Don't get me wrong, I'm not hating on it, I just can't see why to praise it at all either. If it made back the budget then atleast the hard work of the filming crew was justified, albeit only financially.
Milton Killer's Matrix Easter Eggs.
Lmao this dude and Full Fat videos be smoking some super weed huh. I'm dying.
Imagine getting owned by an AMV channel. Couldn't be me.
honestly I don't understand the hate about matrix resurrections when its in my opinion the best part so far, regarding that the first movie was a beginner ticket and with resurrections being the prime taste.
You lost me at 6:46. "It's not a product to be sold", but that's exactly what they did, they created a project and sold it and it's subsequent sequels to a major movie studio. I'm not lambasting that choice, just pointing out how demonstrably false that statement is.
The dialogue in this video sounds like someone fanboy-ing, drinking the Kool-aide, while simultaneously ignoring legitimate criticism. And that's from someone who is a legit fanboy of the series. I am truly a Matrix geek, and maybe that's why I'm so hard on this movie.
I actually liked the Reloaded and Revolutions. Which is why when I look at this movie with a critical eye, I believe it's doing a lot of the things you say it's not doing. Maybe a third watching will help me see something in missing.
22:35 Trinity didn't free herself. Literally transferring powers from Neo to herself by simply being re-awakened makes no narrative sense. They could have easily sold it as she gained powers similar to his by then being so close to each other for 60+ years.
But how would he lose the ability to do something that they made clear in the first film that the only thing that would prevent him from doing it is his own limiting beliefs? He gets to the-write the matrix as he wishes. Hell, they could have written is as he becomes powerful enough to give her powers, or make her the "One" by storing all the anomalies inside of her. But they don't even try to explain it, it's just something that happened, "because". Am I thinking about this wrong? Help me out folks.
Like you said near the end of the video, you like the trilogy more as a result of this movie. I feel the same way but in the opposite. We had steak, it was amazing, and now that we've been given bologna, that steak tastes even better. There was so much potential, and I could see it in a few scenes where the dialogue was great but it just fell flat afterwards too many times. I see Lana's involvement as merely a chance for self insert, to insert her own journey on the back of her and her sister's magnificent creation from 20 years ago. And it's absolutely hers to do, but unfortunately, she missed the mark.
Which conversation started well but fell flat for you? Just curious.
@@topnetworkersgroup there were a few, and it wasn't so much that the conversations ended badly, it was the follow up that fell flat. When NPH was talking to Neo, I enjoyed most of their interactions in the first half of the movie, I liked the idea that the analyst was keeping him trapped but the reason was less than satisfying. New Smith, before it was revealed that's who he was, had some great lines but why did we even need a new Smith? It felt cheap to me.
It's good to see a film critique that places the film studied in a larger and more mature framework. As a young person, Lana Wachowski would have known all the French cinema that was movies about making movies (particularly Godard and Truffaut). As artists, neither Wachowski would have enjoyed a studio's hints that they were going to capitalize on the Matrix brand with or without them. So what we get is a reflection on the Wachowski's position within the film industry, which has been bumpy (Cloud Atlas, a beautiful film, was not appreciated, and Sense 8, a unique and beautiful reflection on our global community and the core problem of predatory life, was cancelled). Of course she would bring those issues and the more personal ones connected with her parents' passing into the film. Turning Agent Smith into a producer is perfect. I guess it will take average viewers some time to read all of the elements packed into the thing - or not - which is to be understood in a viewing environment where we move from superheroes to the supernatural without spending much time on our actual position in the metaverse of characterizations, plot structures and memes swirling around us and choking out questions that might one time have been understood as "eternal". Thanks for raising some of the deeper things happening in the work.
It's videos like these that makes me love Cosmonaut variety hour more than ever 🤣😂. Long live Marcus!!
I love that "The Matrix Explained" explains "how the movie"
and you (in this video) explain "why the movie"
cheers
=]
Plot twist FilmSpeak never watched the other movies.
Thanks, we need more detailed videos that explain the obvious, cuz most people can't see trough all the bs.
I really loved it, I felt the story was very love centered and different. It was definitely one of my favorites and I think she did an amazing job with it.
Yess, or rather I felt like the new movie was more love centered compared to the trilogy. Coz the trilogy was also very focused on the neo-trinity love story. On my second watch of the trilogy it felt like it was a love story first coz for both the characters their significant other felt like the primary driving force behind their fight against the machines, especially for neo.
Was only one writing it?
@@ROCKSTARVEGA yep
I liked the Matrix Resurrections. I think what made it succeed where others have failed is that Lana was inspired. Not just by money. But because she had gone through an epic journey since the first Matrix. She had to put that truth into film. It's real. Like the fictional computer simulation that is the Matrix, real life has evolved and changed exponentially since 2001.
The writer was simply responding to an exposé entitled: Sophia Stewart The Definitive Case Study.
In the end, a movie has to work on many levels, not just an intellectual one. That‘s the reason it lost me very early on. I got the meta-stuff, but I just didn‘t care.
But I respect the attempt and, conceptually speaking, I agree: this is way more original than most other remakes, sequels and prequels.
Man, I've been bingeing your videos and I absolutely love your general positivity and differing POV. You gave me a new appreciation for ASM 2, Dark Knight Rises, etc. I can't get onboard with this one. Matrix Resurrections knows what it wants to be, but falls prey to its' own meta. It has some very big and very clever ideas, but I felt like it fell very short in the execution. The action scenes were a frenetic mess and lacked the style of the originals in a way that felt more like the result of a limited budget than a bold new direction. It had some clever moments, but nothing close to what came before. I'm interested to hear your take, but I don't think I'm going to be changing my mind.
Now that we’re few months away from this, I’m still baffled at how poorly it was received by audiences. I wholeheartedly agree with all of your points here and think it was one of, if not the best, legacy sequels we’ve had to date.
Yes I really enjoyed matrix resurrection I really don't get the hatred for the film
Your review is the BEST ON THE INTERNET!!! AWESOME!!! You are awake and I applaud your hard work putting this video together!! Great Job!! I am also going to add a review I did of Matrix 4 below. Thank You for your thoughtful and insightful review!!
You really got it right ✌️ Happy to see open minded people like you!
If you thought this film was good you need to take a red pill and face reality
this guy is tripping