Love how in the past decade or so studios realise that people are tired of clichés and nostalgia-baiting, so they make the characters complain about clichés and nostalgia-baiting while also playing into clichés and nostalgia-baiting
Least of the problems with Matrix 4. It’s terrible in every single way. Cinematography, fight choreography, lighting, pacing, writing, etc. Horrible pos movie
@@MarkIvey2 He said he missed because of scheduling. Whether he read the script and gave that excuse, or he actually had another production going on a missed legitimately, who knows.
Honest Trailer: “No one deserves to be forgotten. No one deserves to fade away. No one should come and go. And have no one know he was ever even here. No one deserves to disappear. To disappear. Disappear.”
Kind of reminds me of how the plot of Jurassic World is like an allegory for itself and other reboots, like you have the greedy executives decide that they aren't making enough money, so they take old things that people love and rehash it into an abomination nobody asked for, which ended up being a disaster in part because they couldn't be assed to put in the love and care it required.
@@battlesheep2552 the problem with jurassic world MANY PEOPLE wanted it. We never see the park running, so that franchise is really something fresh. And there aren't many story with dinosaur, not like zombies. So we wanted ut for nostalgia bait. But the plot & story area complete disaster.
I saw that scene in theaters and thought "there's no way they made the movie like that right?" then after the third extended fight scene with enough gunfire to deafen a small child I realized that's exactly what they did
This movie was so self aware that I couldn't tell whether it was insulting the audience or the movie studio. Case in point, the action scene with Bugs sliding down a building sign with the words "EAT SH*T" on it and a *LITERAL* middle finger lurking in Neo/Thomas Anderson's office among his various awards and action figures.
It's insulting both, and that's what bothers me. I mean, I'm fine with Lana Wachowsky throwing some jab at WB; they kinda deserved it, but I don't think the audience does.
@@pysq8 yeah, but that's something you can only do in hindsight. I didn't expect Matrix Resurrections to be like this, I became aware of the quality of the movie only after watching it. But now I know what Lana Watchowsky (and WB) thinks of her audiences, and I'll react accordingly in the future.
Matrix Revolutions came out in 2003. I was in kindergarten at the time. Since then, I have finished primary school, started high school, finished high school, started college, finished college, and found a full-time job that I've been working for a year and a half now. They're not exaggerating about the adult children who grew up between the movies.
I definitely wasn’t a fan of the forgettable quick cut fight scenes. The well choreographed fights from the originals were so awesome. Also “You No Weaving” 😂
Quick cut are the bane and butter of todays action movies: It is easy to produce so it cost less but it sucks so much that any movie/show not doing it is considered good now.
My dad came home from seeing this with my mom and they immediately started watching Sharknado. Said they needed to watch anything better than The Matrix IV to wash it out of their mind.
''My dad came home from seeing this with my mom and they immediately started watching Sharknado''. Two adults go out to watch a 3 hour film just to watch another half the length? Without inviting you to a christmas blockbuster? Alibi for what I wonder?🤔
we finally get the answer to what the franchise is all about.Taking little blue pills, risking it all to impress a girl you met online. hahahahahaha. Genius.
If the new Matrix had a better script, Cumberbatch would have been a better choice for Agent Smith than Jonathan Groff who was only lukewarm in the cast of Glee. He's too immature for the role.
"Grab the adult children you've raised since the first movie came out." My 22-year-old daughter was standing next to me when you said this. I am now dead.
I remember watching this and my mom would laugh and nudge me every time they said a meta line or made a fourth wall-breaking reference. I almost envy her for her childlike excitement seeing such things.
I had some actual excitement when they made the references subtle, like having the same lobby for a scene, or in the first smith fight, him dragging neo into the subway where they had their big fight. You know, the shots where they didn't hammer it over your head like "OH MY GOD THIS IS FROM THE MATRIX!!!"
@@kirkwright8954 Heaven forbid people are not impressed by a soulless corporate cashgrab. Will somebody _please_ think of those poor, poor billionaire Hollywood studios?!
Some of the machines defecting to humanity’s side was cool. Kinda reminded me of the Autobots from Transformers a little bit. Wished that was explored a little more.
It was cool until they felt the overwhelming need to force the good robots to be... Disney Plushy CUTE just to make sure you know they're the good robots no matter how stupid that is. Which was immediately so. You know. I guess it just wasn't cool the whole time. It could've been cool though.
The funny thing about this movie was it had the self-awareness to know it could offer something genuinely smart-if still obviously derivative. The first half was all about acknowledging that connection, and I think the way it did so was unconventional and even a little subversive. That made it kind of exciting. The problem is you can’t just break the fourth wall about making a soulless cash-grab sequel and then actually go and do it. Robbing a bank and telling everyone about how you’re robbing the bank and how it’s “so bad” but you just “have to do it” does *not* make robbing a bank any more OK. In fact, I would have been happy if only they had still delivered on amazing action sequences that the Matrix was already known for. Instead we got insanely bland fight scenes with all of the magic taken out of them. No long takes featuring a flurry of exchanged blows between opponents, or even just clearly decipherable action filmmaking. Nope. We get the same crappy cut-cut-cut that Hollywood cranks out hundreds of times each year. It’s a shame too, because I even liked the new characters and thought they had real potential. But when you look at the finer details of the craftsmanship that went into making the film, it just kinda falls apart.
100% agree. That was the best part of the original matrix movies, was that the action scenes pulled the camera back and you could enjoy and actually see what the F was going on. The close ups they did do had purpose not just quick cuts to supposedly increase excitement. Maybe it is just me, but all that up close 1-2 second cut fight scene crap is really distracting and just leaves me confused and uninterested.
They were all good ideas. It's one of those movies where on paper, this could've been an a amazing movie that stands out from the other films but somehow when you put it together, it's just a awkward sequel. And that really goes to the writers and the choice of director. The Wachowskis already ruined the sequels and made Jupiter Ascending. That alone is a sign that they shouldn't be responsible for writing or directing another movie and hopefully this movie will put them to rest. I think it would've been a much better movie if they had new people involved, a different director that knows how to shoot good action, create subtlety and hire genuine good writers who probably understood the Matrix better than the goddamn creators do. It probably would then be a Wes Craven's New Nightmare of the Matrix, a actual clever meta that does it's own thing while keeping the things that made the original so good like what New Nightmare did.
The "Bugs" thing is kind of funny because WB seems to have forgotten why the Bunny was named that way (apart from alliteration reasons). "Bugs" was a slang word that meant "crazy".
@@andromidius Ha. There is nothing to get. No deep meaning to uncover. This movie was extremely blunt with it's message and left nothing to be interpreted by the viewer.
In the theater, I actually groaned "for fucks sake" when they straight up started playing the clip of morpheus offering the pills WITHIN the scene. Just shameless crap...
This movie won me over by admitting that they were forced to make it. I couldn't hate on its efforts under such honest circumstances. However, the fight scenes really should have been much better.
Well... Wasn't all the Matrix trilogy already self-aware? This one is just way more obvious, because a lot of us were too dumb tu understand the three others.
@@youliseas5711 it hinted at all of it being a simulation (both matrix and "real world" being just multiple layers to the simulation, kinda like a whole inception thing) but never did it just go "hey guys we're in a movie! It all doesn't matter! Insert movie trope here! Hahaha!" like matrix 4 did.
@@TheP3NGU1N @Aaron Jones Yes but even the first movie was already very "meta". Anyway i didn't hear Matrix 4 saying that "it all doesn't matter". Actually i heard the opposite... Like "these movies really matter, stop reducing them"
Definitely don't. Keep the happy memories of the trilogy. Its like seeing someone in their last moments. That image of them sticks in your memory. Remember them in happier times.
Never felt being bored watching the Honest Trailers, I can watch it all the day again like Captain America did.... . . . . . ....but only Honest Trailers from year 2020-2023.
Hollywood has become to me like Pizza Hut. Initial happy experiences motivated me to go back again and again, but after being disappointed each time, I am now ignoring both for the most part.
i was watching lord of the rings yesterday for the 100th time and at the battle of minas trith when I was getting goosebumps for the 100th time at "arise, arise riders of theoden" all I could think was, what the hell happened to cinema how can a movie from 20 years ago be this amazing, a masterpiece that would stand for the ages and now its all like cartoons and not in a good way...
@@DragonMasterSubo Eh, there are quite a few Marvel movies that will stand up pretty well. The first Iron Man, Winter Soldier, Infinty War+End Game... Of course, others not so well, but that is to be expected when they make so many movies.
I honestly couldn't tell if this movie was trying to be a spoof of itself or attempt to get ahead of the criticism while generating new criticism at the same time.
And then shrugs it's shoulders half-way to give an actual sequel to things because they still have to give WB what it wants, even if they do make fun of them.
@@Geoffery_of_Monmouth, if that's the answer, none of that is present in the film. The equivalent of watching all the Fast & Furious films after 7 and acting like it's for Paul, it's for money.
The funny part is that the movie literally tells you why it exists, gives a giant middle finger to WB for forcing it, and WB was still like....mmmm, yeah, cool. Release it! I mean, I liked it regardless. It's more of an extended ending than a sequel.
I have a pet theory that the arrangement between WB and Lana W boiled down to "Here's a checklist of things you must include in the movie, and if you check every box, we don't care how you do it."
They should of focused on the machine civil war. Neo's consciousness/spirit/soul is absorbed or transferred into the machine sentience somehow kind of like what Smith does, and his influence enlightens some of the machines to where they are both human and machine and brought Keanu back the way they brought Morpheus back.
The Machine Civil War gotta be the greatest example of a movie's backstory being leagues better than the movie itself since the opening montage to X-Men Origins: Wolverine
New Rockstars breakdown mentioned an Easter egg: one scene with the theater entrance’s sign showing a movie starred by “Lito Rodriguez” I think that was cool.
so glad i could fast forward through most of this movie. I didn't think anything could be worse than the Matrix 3 but this sure made that one look great by comparison.
The movie was so bad it brought me endless joy. I was laughing almost all through the last 30 minutes. Pure insanity without breaks. It’s amazing. 2nd worst movie I have seen in cinema but it brought me joy and laughter. Also, whoever casted Neil Patrick Harris should never be allowed to cast again. He breaks any shred of seriousness the movie was trying to achiebe
@@bingobongo1615 Have to agree with you. I like NPH but in this I don't know if he was given the wrong direction or if he just didn't care but man he was horrible.
We learn from this, that loudly aknowledging the fact that you are pooping on the carpet in the living room while you are pooping on the carpet in the living room doesn't magically make it acceptable.
I actually think the french man literally rambling random french words at neo before escaping was funny. There was a lot that they tried to do with this that could have worked if they gave it a bit of another pass on the script and if they had shot the movie with the right level of suspense and action. Maybe covid hurt the filming but we'll never really know since this has absolutely killed the matrix for now anyways...
I'm one of the few people who actually love this movie and the only part I don't understand is wtf the Merovingian is even doing here other than a repeat the meta already done for an hour at this point.
If you want a better meta sequel that's clever, smart, and pays good respect to the original movies while sprinkling neat references, cameos, and callbacks, then go see Wes Craven's New Nightmare.
Omg yes. WAY MORE self away meta than Resurrections. I remember sneaking scenes of New Nightmare on TV back when it came out and being so obsessed with it since I was NOT allowed to watch any scary movies. I didn't even know or understand who Freddy was. Years later in middle school I was finally allowed to watch scary movies and THEN finally realized who Freddy was lol. New Nightmare is by far still the best in the entire franchise imo.
The saddest thing: Just the fact that *the original Morpheus and most of the people Neo and Trinity had kinship with, Link, Ghost, Lock, Kid, Roland, the Oracle, have passed away after the final battle at Zion.* Niobe is the very last one left. This is especially one to those who loved those iconic characters.
watched the original trilogy with the gf cause shed never seen it and when we got halfway through the 4th one i was already coming up with reasons it wasnt canon. She said she considered the OG trilogy+animatrix seperate from this garbage. Almost broke the ring out right there
Every 20-30 minutes he gets up from his desk and the camera follows him to the men's room. He walks in and the camera just stays motionless at the door awaiting him to come out again.
The moment I read that they didn't offer Hugo Weaving WHATEVER he wanted to star in this I knew it was gonna be lacking. Still the fanboy in me did semi enjoy it for what they got right.
Thank God. Smith was a ham 20 years ago. The dude was always turned up to 11, which essentially meant that nothing ever felt like it escalated. He always spoke in a sneer, but wasn't capable of true condescension.
I appreciate that some of the natural evolution of society that I always though would happen, like the senthients and humans on the same side. The action sequences were...well yeah. I mean we know Keanu can still go, so I don't really see why they didn't make that effort. I love that this was basically Neo and Trinity's love story rebooted and especially that ending. But I'm a sucker for a happy ending so I'm fine with it. Though honestly making a film about the Machine Civil War would've certainly been worthwhile. Call it The Matrix Realities or The Matrix Reordered.
@@gargoyles9999 The faction of Machines that he made peace with fragmented, had a civil war, and a faction that still wanted to subjugate humans. The fragmentation of occurred because the humans freed so man red pills that the Matrix's power output drastically decreased. The faction that still wants humans fully subjugated won the machine civil war, what's left is more of a cold war than anything. The machines aren't actively hunting for Io, but they also aren't really happy about them freeing people either.
Love how in the past decade or so studios realise that people are tired of clichés and nostalgia-baiting, so they make the characters complain about clichés and nostalgia-baiting while also playing into clichés and nostalgia-baiting
Clearly they STILL don't know that being self-deprecating or self-awared doesn't excuse that crap
It’s entertainment just watch it and enjoy or don’t
Least of the problems with Matrix 4. It’s terrible in every single way. Cinematography, fight choreography, lighting, pacing, writing, etc. Horrible pos movie
I'm not sure they've really figured that out yet.
So... Meta-trix?
Neo: “so what are you saying.. that I can dodge bullets?”
Morpheus: “no Neo… I’m saying that when you watch your new movie, you won’t want to.”
👏👏👏
Nice!
lol!!!
Wow, perfect reply! Hahaha
This made me chuckle a lot and my husband, who is a huge fan, now is pissed :'D
@@hamatoJade Did he like the movie or is he pissed because of what they did to Neo?
"The adult children you had time to raise since the last one." That resonated with me.
Yup, adult child me was very emotional to be watching the matrix in theatres lol
Same here! My kids were 13, 11, and 7 when the first Matrix came out. All grown, married, and parents now! 😳
@@carastone3473 they must've felt a lot more disappointed than I was when seeing the movie
Me too, but only because I was an adult when I saw the first one and I still do not have children (and likely won't at this point). :p
"At this age, he would rather just spam the block button."
I felt that one in my soul! :(
Dodging bullets, with my back? I can’t risk pulling something and have to take time off from work!
Throwing away free bullets? In this economy?
Wouldn't you tho? I would. It's smarter and more efficient. One of the few signs that he matured with age lol
The statement also works if we are talking about video games.
That better or worse than spamming "Down + Low-Kick"?
"It's like they invented bullet time but for dodging criticism."
This is the greatest line you guys have ever come up with. 5/5 stars
I dunno, the Riley Reid line from the Godzilla vs Kong still is king for me lol
@@056Brahmabull explain?
AAHHH!!! 😂 Fucking inspired. I applaud both the line AND the accompanying visual 👏
@@mfzoom5401 watch the godzilla vs Kong honest trailer, it's from that.
So many great lines in this one.
I find it hilarious that the entire movie is Lana Wachowski saying "I didn't want to make this, WB made me do it, now we all have to suffer"
She even literally states in the script. Ver-ba-tim. It's impressive.
All while sitting in the director's chair counting the cash, like Wes craven in Jay and silent Bob strike Back
@@Dtaysh I wanna see this
Lana, SHE!?!?!?!
@@michaellevi1474 Yeah, you got a problem with that?
It looks like Hugo Weaving and Lawrence Fishburne are the only ones still able to dodge bullets
I reckon I enjoyed this comment a lot more than if I ever get around to seeing M4trix
I understand why Hugo Weaving passed on this movie to do a theater stage gig now..
Straight up savagery, right there.
@@MarkIvey2 He said he missed because of scheduling. Whether he read the script and gave that excuse, or he actually had another production going on a missed legitimately, who knows.
@@jikae10 they could have waited then ...
Ben Platt probably thought "There's no way they can make fun of me in an Honest Trailer for Matrix 4"
Sometimes I play with my willy and the white stuff comes out
This was the line that made me laugh out loud.
@@TippyHippy Happens to me everytime I play with my willy.
You might want to get that checked out.
Honest Trailer: “No one deserves to be forgotten. No one deserves to fade away. No one should come and go. And have no one know he was ever even here. No one deserves to disappear. To disappear. Disappear.”
He was honestly the best part of Resurrections.
It's hilarious how self aware this movie is about how unnecessary it was.
@Man why you telling me??? 👀
it is even weird how tf warner executives lets it go... wtf.....
Kind of reminds me of how the plot of Jurassic World is like an allegory for itself and other reboots, like you have the greedy executives decide that they aren't making enough money, so they take old things that people love and rehash it into an abomination nobody asked for, which ended up being a disaster in part because they couldn't be assed to put in the love and care it required.
@@battlesheep2552 the problem with jurassic world MANY PEOPLE wanted it. We never see the park running, so that franchise is really something fresh. And there aren't many story with dinosaur, not like zombies. So we wanted ut for nostalgia bait. But the plot & story area complete disaster.
How was it unnecessary when fans like me waited for so much time?
the movie literally tells you why it exists
But in a really unfunny way. It’s like someone watched to much Deadpool movies and said “can we do this 4th wall thing, too?”
If true, should've been "The Matrix: Cashgrab"
@@LasTCursE69 Yes. I would've been actually impressed if they titled it that.
just because you can doesn't mean you should
I saw that scene in theaters and thought "there's no way they made the movie like that right?" then after the third extended fight scene with enough gunfire to deafen a small child I realized that's exactly what they did
This movie was so self aware that I couldn't tell whether it was insulting the audience or the movie studio. Case in point, the action scene with Bugs sliding down a building sign with the words "EAT SH*T" on it and a *LITERAL* middle finger lurking in Neo/Thomas Anderson's office among his various awards and action figures.
I'll take audience for four hundred.
It's insulting both, and that's what bothers me. I mean, I'm fine with Lana Wachowsky throwing some jab at WB; they kinda deserved it, but I don't think the audience does.
@@rosiello5100 the audience must FINANCIALLY respond to these companies, or they keep throwing feces at the wall and calling it art
@@pysq8 yeah, but that's something you can only do in hindsight. I didn't expect Matrix Resurrections to be like this, I became aware of the quality of the movie only after watching it.
But now I know what Lana Watchowsky (and WB) thinks of her audiences, and I'll react accordingly in the future.
The matrix became self aware on Dec 22, 2021 and began learning at a geometric rate
The way they shot the action scenes was unforgivable. When will this terror of jump cut and shaky Cam end?
learnt from the best : Taken series!!!
Action choreographers are expensive.
Agreed! They should learn with the Korean movie Old Man. That's a movie with great fight scenes where you can actually see the fight.
They spent 100's of millions but didn't give woo-ping a call. Huge mistake and that's why the fight scenes aren't in the same league.
@@mike4962 exactly
“A FOURTH WALL BREAK INSIDE A FOURTH WALL BREAK? THAT’S LIKE…SIXTEEN WALLS!”
Quote from Deadpool to properly describe the Matrix Resurrections.
wallception!
Maximum Wallfort!
You sir have won the golden chimichanga
Very accurate.
“So gather the adult children you’ve had time to raise since the original” I am the adult children wow
The original came out in 1999, so 23 years ago…
The original was the best though… I’ve probably watched it 20 times… the next 2, not so much…
@@christopherhamilton5557 Never seen any of the sequels. No way to be disappointed.
@@kevinstrother8712 Smart man.
Matrix Revolutions came out in 2003. I was in kindergarten at the time. Since then, I have finished primary school, started high school, finished high school, started college, finished college, and found a full-time job that I've been working for a year and a half now. They're not exaggerating about the adult children who grew up between the movies.
Literally saw the movie with my mom and adult brother after my college graduation 🤣
I definitely wasn’t a fan of the forgettable quick cut fight scenes. The well choreographed fights from the originals were so awesome. Also “You No Weaving” 😂
Quick cut are the bane and butter of todays action movies: It is easy to produce so it cost less but it sucks so much that any movie/show not doing it is considered good now.
You No Weaving had me in tears for like 20 minutes
Even in the two sequels the fight scenes felt gratuitous and pointless. Just CGI guys beating up on each other until one of them runs away.
@@JB-gw7xf Even so, c’mon, you can’t tell me that the highway chase in the matrix reloaded wasn’t awesome.
My dad came home from seeing this with my mom and they immediately started watching Sharknado. Said they needed to watch anything better than The Matrix IV to wash it out of their mind.
Hahaha
Damn, that's a hell of a palate cleanser XD
''My dad came home from seeing this with my mom and they immediately started watching Sharknado''.
Two adults go out to watch a 3 hour film just to watch another half the length? Without inviting you to a christmas blockbuster?
Alibi for what I wonder?🤔
If you're prepared to watch Sharknado more than once, then you've no business criticizing The Matrix Resurrections 😎
@@MaryBrownIsTheBlairWitch Sharknado was a better.
we finally get the answer to what the franchise is all about.Taking little blue pills, risking it all to impress a girl you met online. hahahahahaha. Genius.
I lost it at that
“Unlabeled pills”
"I've just thought you're a guy" 🤭
Blue pill is fentanyl
I was so excited to see this movie. All the excitement left my body when I watched it.
you see, the problem started when you got excited about it
WB is surprisingly ok with both Space jam 2 and Matrix Resurrection essentially being shitposts about how crappy WB is.
Shows you the company they are.
"A capitalist will sell you the rope you are going to hang them with."
@Justin Gary Space Jam 2 still made more money than this crap
@Justin Gary Space Jam 2 is actually better tbh
@@thehallowayboys That's not saying much. Coincidentally the Space Jam 2 honest trailer is right next to this comment in my recommendations.
"We've all been Spider-Pilled now."
Ha, that one did make me laugh.
and with good reason
That one put a smile on my face
Spider-Pill,
Spider-Pill.
Does whatever a Spider-Pill does.
Can he swing
from a web?
No he can't,
he's a pill.
Look out!
Here comes a Spider-Pill
If Spiderman and Dr. Strange, etc are part of the Matrix, it might explain a lot.
If the new Matrix had a better script, Cumberbatch would have been a better choice for Agent Smith than Jonathan Groff who was only lukewarm in the cast of Glee. He's too immature for the role.
"Thank you for being a friend" was an unexpected hit right in the feels! RIP Betty White
Creep
“Ben Platt can play The Spoon Kid. He’s the perfect age for the role.” This was beautiful.
Hahaha 😂
Isn’t he totally?! He only like fghty-kix right!
Seriously I get he originated Evan Hansen on Broadway but he was way too old to play the character in the movie
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I've never heard of Ben Platt before.
I love how the epic voice makes the Verizon ads sound like sarcasm 😂
😂
Didn't even realize that's an ad. I thought he'd started reading comments and the first one was someone asking him to ironically say that.
Yeah. He should do an honest trailer about Verizon. LOL!
4:44 "Time is always against us etc. etc." Love it how they couldn't be arsed completing the script
"Grab the adult children you've raised since the first movie came out." My 22-year-old daughter was standing next to me when you said this. I am now dead.
she wasn't even alive when the first one came out though
It’s ok you’ll come back to life in 18 years
@@sofnaji the release of the movie doesn't imply the starting point for having children. it says "SINCE". very broad concept.
@@r3stl3ss it depends how you interpret the sentence, if u been raising them since that implies to me they were alive at the time
I am once again asking for Netflix daredevil honest trailer
Godspeed friend
PLEASE DO IT
Wait, they haven't done it?
Just finished it. Yes, please.
The jokes about stick and Murdock's useless friends. Please
Matrix the musical would be epic! Especially if they figure out that they are just actors in a play halfway through.
Neo: I lost...I lost? Wait a minute, I'm not supposed to lose, let me see the script!
The agents are just the in house security personnel
Man, December 2021 would be hell of a month to remember how to use Nostalgia in a good way and a bad way.
I remember watching this and my mom would laugh and nudge me every time they said a meta line or made a fourth wall-breaking reference. I almost envy her for her childlike excitement seeing such things.
I had some actual excitement when they made the references subtle, like having the same lobby for a scene, or in the first smith fight, him dragging neo into the subway where they had their big fight.
You know, the shots where they didn't hammer it over your head like "OH MY GOD THIS IS FROM THE MATRIX!!!"
Aw, good for your mom. Sounds like she would've gotten along well with me & my dad when we saw it ourselves on New Year's Eve. 😊
Sounds like your mom likes to like things.
Maybe you should give that a try sometime.
Also, way to sounds really condescending to your mom.
@@kirkwright8954 Heaven forbid people are not impressed by a soulless corporate cashgrab. Will somebody _please_ think of those poor, poor billionaire Hollywood studios?!
Absolutely loved the heroes reference at the end of the video! “Save the cheerleader, save the world!”
Some of the machines defecting to humanity’s side was cool. Kinda reminded me of the Autobots from Transformers a little bit. Wished that was explored a little more.
Yeah I liked how they expanded on the "symbiotic relationship" between humans and machines that was brought up in the sequels and the animatrix
@@phoenix...dark...dirk.dark4307 canonically machine wanted to co-exist. Nationalist human decided “f the planet” so…
*Bay4merZ
It is a bit in the Animatrix. There was enough lore already
It was cool until they felt the overwhelming need to force the good robots to be... Disney Plushy CUTE just to make sure you know they're the good robots no matter how stupid that is. Which was immediately so. You know. I guess it just wasn't cool the whole time. It could've been cool though.
The funny thing about this movie was it had the self-awareness to know it could offer something genuinely smart-if still obviously derivative. The first half was all about acknowledging that connection, and I think the way it did so was unconventional and even a little subversive. That made it kind of exciting. The problem is you can’t just break the fourth wall about making a soulless cash-grab sequel and then actually go and do it. Robbing a bank and telling everyone about how you’re robbing the bank and how it’s “so bad” but you just “have to do it” does *not* make robbing a bank any more OK.
In fact, I would have been happy if only they had still delivered on amazing action sequences that the Matrix was already known for. Instead we got insanely bland fight scenes with all of the magic taken out of them. No long takes featuring a flurry of exchanged blows between opponents, or even just clearly decipherable action filmmaking. Nope. We get the same crappy cut-cut-cut that Hollywood cranks out hundreds of times each year. It’s a shame too, because I even liked the new characters and thought they had real potential. But when you look at the finer details of the craftsmanship that went into making the film, it just kinda falls apart.
100% agree. That was the best part of the original matrix movies, was that the action scenes pulled the camera back and you could enjoy and actually see what the F was going on. The close ups they did do had purpose not just quick cuts to supposedly increase excitement.
Maybe it is just me, but all that up close 1-2 second cut fight scene crap is really distracting and just leaves me confused and uninterested.
Robbing a bank but telling everyone that robbing a bank is bad but you have to do it? You literally just described the plot of Money Heist.
You pretty much summed it up my man!
They were all good ideas. It's one of those movies where on paper, this could've been an a amazing movie that stands out from the other films but somehow when you put it together, it's just a awkward sequel. And that really goes to the writers and the choice of director. The Wachowskis already ruined the sequels and made Jupiter Ascending. That alone is a sign that they shouldn't be responsible for writing or directing another movie and hopefully this movie will put them to rest. I think it would've been a much better movie if they had new people involved, a different director that knows how to shoot good action, create subtlety and hire genuine good writers who probably understood the Matrix better than the goddamn creators do. It probably would then be a Wes Craven's New Nightmare of the Matrix, a actual clever meta that does it's own thing while keeping the things that made the original so good like what New Nightmare did.
@@brandonspain12345 you get points for saying that New Nightmare was good.
The "Bugs" thing is kind of funny because WB seems to have forgotten why the Bunny was named that way (apart from alliteration reasons). "Bugs" was a slang word that meant "crazy".
Saw the movie. To quote Cypher: “Why oh why didn’t I take the BLUE pill…”
Matrix IV....
Because you will need an adrenaline drip just to stay awake.
Roman numerals standing in for medical equipment is TIGHT!
I legitimately counted the ceiling tiles in the cinema during this movie!
I legit was nodding off in the theatre and don’t care enough about it to rewatch on HBO.
@@MaiAolei get all the way off of Roman Numerals’ back.
Oh well done.
Matrix on Broadway, now THAT is something I would sign a petition for.
You & 3 others, apparently lol
no ty
Love how they take shots at “you just don’t get it” crew lol
Well... a lot of people don't. So *shrug*. Their loss.
To quote Meatball:
_"I get it. It ain't making me laugh, but I get it."_
@@andromidius Ha. There is nothing to get. No deep meaning to uncover. This movie was extremely blunt with it's message and left nothing to be interpreted by the viewer.
A sweet little dud ;)
In the theater, I actually groaned "for fucks sake" when they straight up started playing the clip of morpheus offering the pills WITHIN the scene. Just shameless crap...
I literally fell asleep watching it in the theatre and then walked out before it finished
Yeah still amazed how they straight up played like 5 minutes of the first movie
I know right, it felt more like some fan fiction than an actual sequel to me
Unless you weren't paying attention, the trailers basically straight up showed us what they were going to do...
Then it's on the right track.
This movie won me over by admitting that they were forced to make it. I couldn't hate on its efforts under such honest circumstances.
However, the fight scenes really should have been much better.
The second the movie became self-aware a little part of my matrix loving youth died inside me.
Well... Wasn't all the Matrix trilogy already self-aware? This one is just way more obvious, because a lot of us were too dumb tu understand the three others.
@@youliseas5711 it hinted at all of it being a simulation (both matrix and "real world" being just multiple layers to the simulation, kinda like a whole inception thing) but never did it just go "hey guys we're in a movie! It all doesn't matter! Insert movie trope here! Hahaha!" like matrix 4 did.
@@TheP3NGU1N @Aaron Jones Yes but even the first movie was already very "meta". Anyway i didn't hear Matrix 4 saying that "it all doesn't matter". Actually i heard the opposite... Like "these movies really matter, stop reducing them"
@@youliseas5711 Matrix 4 is garbage. Stop defending it.
@@jlev1028 Sir yes sir!
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1:15 That scene killed me in theater. It was so unexpected and funny 😂😂😂
That Ben Platt dig was hilarious!
@4:22 That wicky wicky kicky kicky comment made me laugh so hard and made my day!
In honor of the late great Sidney Poiter, please say: "They Call Me Mister Tibbs!"
Please do an honest trailer for arcane! It’s quite honestly the best thing I’ve ever watched.
Omg i said that too HE NEEDS TO DO ARCANE
That was not harsh enough. I demand a sequel or soft reboot of this honest trailer.
same!
The dark prequel is what's needed
Oh, doing Pitch Meetings of Honest Trailers are TIGHT.
starring Tom Holland^
Thank you for posting this, you’ve saved me the trouble of sitting through the movie 🙏🏼
Definitely don't. Keep the happy memories of the trilogy. Its like seeing someone in their last moments. That image of them sticks in your memory. Remember them in happier times.
Nooo, check it out! It's unique even if eventually flawed. But the meta levels are so high theyneed to be applauded.
honestly the first third to half of it is actually pretty good - right up until they get Neo out of the Matrix again
@@rhapsodyinblue111 jada literally ruins the movie with 45 minutes of screen time of her saying "y'all grounded!" then it becomes student theater
@@aname3690 truth
You guys are golden!!!!! Just keep getting better! I LOL throughout the WHOLE TRAILER.
Never felt being bored watching the Honest Trailers, I can watch it all the day again like Captain America did....
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....but only Honest Trailers from year 2020-2023.
Hollywood has become to me like Pizza Hut. Initial happy experiences motivated me to go back again and again, but after being disappointed each time, I am now ignoring both for the most part.
i was watching lord of the rings yesterday for the 100th time and at the battle of minas trith when I was getting goosebumps for the 100th time at "arise, arise riders of theoden" all I could think was, what the hell happened to cinema
how can a movie from 20 years ago be this amazing, a masterpiece that would stand for the ages and now its all like cartoons and not in a good way...
Same goes for the original Matrix. Absolute perfection, unrivalled to this very day
That better not be a dig at Amphibia or The Owl House.
I feel the same way watching Casablanca. Just happens that once in a while a Hollywood makes a gem. Except 1993/4 that was a banner year for them.
"what the hell happened to cinema"
Marvel.
@@DragonMasterSubo Eh, there are quite a few Marvel movies that will stand up pretty well. The first Iron Man, Winter Soldier, Infinty War+End Game... Of course, others not so well, but that is to be expected when they make so many movies.
Neo thinking he is in a star wars movie and using the force to stop bullets
not sure I've ever been sadder for an honest trailer to be so on-point...
IKR? I came expecting to laugh about it and left feeling sad and empty...
I honestly couldn't tell if this movie was trying to be a spoof of itself or attempt to get ahead of the criticism while generating new criticism at the same time.
Thought the same. The movie entertains and that's it. Nothing more nothing else.
Based on Lana's comments, the former, while also being her attempt to grapple with the death of her parents.
Yes.
And then shrugs it's shoulders half-way to give an actual sequel to things because they still have to give WB what it wants, even if they do make fun of them.
@@Geoffery_of_Monmouth, if that's the answer, none of that is present in the film. The equivalent of watching all the Fast & Furious films after 7 and acting like it's for Paul, it's for money.
"The great Trin Robbery"....love it..
The funny part is that the movie literally tells you why it exists, gives a giant middle finger to WB for forcing it, and WB was still like....mmmm, yeah, cool. Release it!
I mean, I liked it regardless. It's more of an extended ending than a sequel.
I have a pet theory that the arrangement between WB and Lana W boiled down to "Here's a checklist of things you must include in the movie, and if you check every box, we don't care how you do it."
@@carlevans8825 so….the end of the film? Seems like an appropriate time to leave
U write all that and then proceeds to contradicts yoursrlf just cuz
Ryan George's movie studio exec will be making $ references when he decides to pitch this movie, you can be sure of that.
@@carlevans8825 If you're paying for a streaming service, then it's not free my guy
They should of focused on the machine civil war. Neo's consciousness/spirit/soul is absorbed or transferred into the machine sentience somehow kind of like what Smith does, and his influence enlightens some of the machines to where they are both human and machine and brought Keanu back the way they brought Morpheus back.
Get out of here with your good ideas.
The Machine Civil War gotta be the greatest example of a movie's backstory being leagues better than the movie itself since the opening montage to X-Men Origins: Wolverine
No, they just shouldn't have made this movie.
or Neo just does what Smith did and steal a body (brain dead person etc)
Should of just let neo and trinity be dead good greif
You guys were spot-on on this one. Definitely, on if my fav trailers to date.
Love that they brought in the whole cast from Sense 8
I'm pretty sure the key shop in the beginning is not just a nod to the Keymaker, it looks exactly like Wolfgang and Felix's shop too!
New Rockstars breakdown mentioned an Easter egg: one scene with the theater entrance’s sign showing a movie starred by “Lito Rodriguez” I think that was cool.
I was so confused when I watched M4 until I remembered who created Sense8.
so glad i could fast forward through most of this movie. I didn't think anything could be worse than the Matrix 3 but this sure made that one look great by comparison.
The movie was so bad it brought me endless joy. I was laughing almost all through the last 30 minutes.
Pure insanity without breaks. It’s amazing. 2nd worst movie I have seen in cinema but it brought me joy and laughter.
Also, whoever casted Neil Patrick Harris should never be allowed to cast again. He breaks any shred of seriousness the movie was trying to achiebe
@@bingobongo1615 Have to agree with you. I like NPH but in this I don't know if he was given the wrong direction or if he just didn't care but man he was horrible.
It made me keep asking myself "they spent HOW MUCH on this movie???"
I dont get all the hate for the matrix 3 i thought it was pretty danm good to be honest
Sorry but nothing can be worse than M3.
A convincing argument for amnesia.
In honor of Peter Bogdonavich, please say “Love means never having to say you’re sorry.. that’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard.”
We learn from this, that loudly aknowledging the fact that you are pooping on the carpet in the living room while you are pooping on the carpet in the living room doesn't magically make it acceptable.
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And here it is folks....THE comment of the thread! I knew my extended scrolling would eventually find gold.
JK Rowling and Amber Heard need to read this comment😂
Thank you for "quick-cut garbage-fighting." I needed a word for this.
That cover of RATM at the end summed up how the whole movie made me feel.
That cover was the last straw, I swear! I lost it for a good bit when I heard it
Bathed in golden sunlight?
Precisely. My thoughts exactly
Glad this video exists! I actually fell asleep in the theater and missed most of the stuff covered in the video.
"Neo became Computer Jesus" has to be one of the best lines in 2022 🤣🤣🤣
It is so funny how accurate this is. How on Earth did they ever decide to remake the matrix only shittier?
$$$$$
Seriously, they'd rebrand Jesus if it would make some sweet, sweet coin.
@@Serasesera Buddy Christ was a good idea. I won't have you soiling its name with the matrix reboot.
They did. Matrix 2 and 3.
@@ionia23 Movie wise sure. But all 3 of those are part of one story. Not one of them tried to retail the story.
XYZ only worse is pretty much how to describe every remake/reimagining for the last 10 years.
"You No Weaving" was the best one in ages! 😂
Sum ting wong.
This is like the new star wars trilogy effect...it just made you love the old matrix sequences.
I actually think the french man literally rambling random french words at neo before escaping was funny. There was a lot that they tried to do with this that could have worked if they gave it a bit of another pass on the script and if they had shot the movie with the right level of suspense and action. Maybe covid hurt the filming but we'll never really know since this has absolutely killed the matrix for now anyways...
Nah rewatched the trilogy for the millionth time this past weekend and seeing this poor excuse of a movie made me appreciate it even MORE
nothing merv said was random. rewatch it with subs turned on. he makes some very good points...
It was out of place. There's a huge fight going on and it cuts to some guy babbling. Multiple times. Mid action. So stupid.
I'm one of the few people who actually love this movie and the only part I don't understand is wtf the Merovingian is even doing here other than a repeat the meta already done for an hour at this point.
I loved seeing Merovingian again. But after a minute into the fight, his screaming became annoying.
This is without a doubt.........the best possible trailer/review for this movie that has been or will ever be made for sure lol!! LOVE IT!!!
Jada packet sniff got me bad. Wasnt ready for it xD
Just watch the first Matrix and none of the others, you’ll be happier for it.
Agreed. It's also relevant to current events.
Hear, hear!
the 2nd movie is good too, the 3rd and the 4 are just crap
And reloaded, revolutions, and animatrix.
@@casiopspsiragon 3 was great, especially the purgatory scene with the little indian girl. it was a perfect end to the trilogy.
If you want a better meta sequel that's clever, smart, and pays good respect to the original movies while sprinkling neat references, cameos, and callbacks, then go see Wes Craven's New Nightmare.
absolutely right!
22 Jump Street
Omg yes. WAY MORE self away meta than Resurrections. I remember sneaking scenes of New Nightmare on TV back when it came out and being so obsessed with it since I was NOT allowed to watch any scary movies. I didn't even know or understand who Freddy was. Years later in middle school I was finally allowed to watch scary movies and THEN finally realized who Freddy was lol. New Nightmare is by far still the best in the entire franchise imo.
It's not that hard to be better than the original franchise, which I really enjoyed, but was overall bad.
Thanks for the unconditional love, and support,it's nice talking to you over here, where are you from?
I didn't expect too much of this sequel..... and still it was a huge disappointment!!!!
The saddest thing: Just the fact that *the original Morpheus and most of the people Neo and Trinity had kinship with, Link, Ghost, Lock, Kid, Roland, the Oracle, have passed away after the final battle at Zion.* Niobe is the very last one left. This is especially one to those who loved those iconic characters.
Morpheus didn't even make it to Niobe or ANY of the others age. He was murdered.
After watching this movie I nearly started a cult dedicated to convincing people that the original matrix is the only matrix
Same. This movie hurt me so bad, it's the only film that I've actively urged people not to watch
was there ever anything other? already the trailer was enough, will never watch it🤷♂️
watched the original trilogy with the gf cause shed never seen it and when we got halfway through the 4th one i was already coming up with reasons it wasnt canon. She said she considered the OG trilogy+animatrix seperate from this garbage. Almost broke the ring out right there
That cult already exists. We know who we are...
It's not a cult , it's a gathering of intelligent persons. There are no sequels.
4:28 'Wicky Wicky Kicky Kicky' had me dying xD
ARGH!!! Made it this far without any Spider-Man spoilers since cinemas in Denmark are closed 😔
This was the most perfect honest trailer i ve seen in a really long time!
Matrix musical was announced, nice work
Damn, this movie should have been released this month. Spudeman NWH definitely set the bar up high for what a December movie should look like
Was originally slated for Memorial Day but filming was halted due to Covid.
This movie should've been dumped and buried for no one have access to it ever. I will just pretend this never existed. Love all the original trilogy.
And NWH should be the next Honest Trailer
It should have gone straight to streaming.
“Keanu Reeves and his struggle beard returns…”. Hilarious!!!!
That was funny!
Edward Cullen: *Shovelface*
Keanu Reeves: *Struggleface*
I’m now trying to imagine the Matrix on Broadway. God you’re killing me!
The only compliment I've heard someone give this movie is that "It is in fact a movie I have watched this year."
The actor cosplaying Lawrence Fishburne did a pretty good job, given what he had to work with.
He’s amazing in The Watchmen HBO show.
@@VariTimo that's where I knew him from! Thank you
You know WB really dropped the ball with this franchise when the number one question everyone who's seen the movie asks is "why does it exist"
The line about "ethics in gaming symbolism" is the best line in the history of planet earth.
The Last Rise Matrix Awakens is basically the Star Wars Sequels.
The most honest honest trailer ever made.
This would of been the greatest movie ever if it had just been Mr.Anderson working his crappy game dev job for 2.5 hours.
would have*
@@chrismeulen8108 he honestly probably meant to type would've*, which is still would have, but people confuse would of and would've.
Every 20-30 minutes he gets up from his desk and the camera follows him to the men's room. He walks in and the camera just stays motionless at the door awaiting him to come out again.
It sad I much prefer it was that.
The moment I read that they didn't offer Hugo Weaving WHATEVER he wanted to star in this I knew it was gonna be lacking. Still the fanboy in me did semi enjoy it for what they got right.
That was Fishburne. Weaving and Lana talked a few times but couldn't make their schedules work.
@@tilley31 they could have waited!!
@@Shayzar1 No, they couldn't. WB wanted the movie done NOW.
@@tilley31 I would speculate that was him politely rejecting a job offer. You never directly reject a job: you say your schedule is completely booked
Thank God.
Smith was a ham 20 years ago. The dude was always turned up to 11, which essentially meant that nothing ever felt like it escalated. He always spoke in a sneer, but wasn't capable of true condescension.
I trust Honest trailer so much-- I gave likes even before watching review for Matrix Resurrection.
If I’m the director or an exec at WB after seeing this, i can’t imagine how long the soul searching/ vacation will be that i go on.
My favorite joke is how "Enter The Matrix" was the best tie-in game, because I'm like wait... actually that does check out...
That was a terrible game though... Path of Neo was way better
I appreciate that some of the natural evolution of society that I always though would happen, like the senthients and humans on the same side. The action sequences were...well yeah. I mean we know Keanu can still go, so I don't really see why they didn't make that effort. I love that this was basically Neo and Trinity's love story rebooted and especially that ending. But I'm a sucker for a happy ending so I'm fine with it. Though honestly making a film about the Machine Civil War would've certainly been worthwhile. Call it The Matrix Realities or The Matrix Reordered.
Agreed
Niobe says that Neo brought peace but the still have to hide from the machines. So are they at peace or what?
@@gargoyles9999 The faction of Machines that he made peace with fragmented, had a civil war, and a faction that still wanted to subjugate humans.
The fragmentation of occurred because the humans freed so man red pills that the Matrix's power output drastically decreased.
The faction that still wants humans fully subjugated won the machine civil war, what's left is more of a cold war than anything. The machines aren't actively hunting for Io, but they also aren't really happy about them freeing people either.
THEY DIDN'T KILL EITHER NEO OR TRINITY FIRST TIME EVER
We need a Hawkeye honest trailer!
And we need it asap!
"You've seen Marvel try to do David Lynch without David Lynch (shows WandaVision). Now see Marvel try to do Shane Black without Shane Black!"
This is exactly how I felt about this movie when I watched it thank you
Matrix 4: We couldn't be arsed.
I'm italian so I have spent an hilarious amount of time to understand the "tiny coffee" joke.
We drink giant coffees in this side of the pond my Italian friend ☕