The Matrix Resurrections - Movie Review

Nearly 2 decades later, we return to the world of The Matrix. But is it a worthy sequel, or blatant nostalgia bait? Here's my review for THE MATRIX RESURRECTIONS!

[ThethPhantom]

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.”

[ExiledQ]

I think the right move would have been to make a prequel. The fall of humanity and rise of machines as depicted in Animatrix has so much potential for a new trilogy

[ReelRejects]

“One of the reasons the whole self aware meta thing this movie was going for started to wear on me is because the movie was joking about it, then it became what it was joking about.” EXACTLY. 100, 000 %

[animationsilo]

The Animatrix was the way to bring The Matrix back. Not like this, not like this.

[CosplayChris]

It’s really nice of Jeremy to allow Keanu to do the review 👏🏻

[somerandolad]

At last, Jeremy's full transformation into Keanu is complete!

[Ardnightian]

I can’t get the past the feeling that I’m watching a blind man explain the matrix 4 to me

[cra]

New smith is NOTHING like old smith. Totally agree it was a “disservice to the character”. Well said.

[garrisonandrew]

When Jeremy says "let me start with what I liked about this movie" then I know I'm in for a treat.

[yanniskee]

Definitely had too much nostalgia to the point where at the end of the movie my first question was “what is the narrative reason of this movie? They could’ve just stopped at Matrix 3”.

[Csumbi]

i just felt it in my bones after the trailers that this movie is going to be a bunch of references to previous movies instead of trying to be its own story, and after listening to this review my suspicions have been confirmed.

[Emotioneler]

The thing that I noticed the most while watching the movie was.. why is the combat SO MUCH worse than the original movies? It was so slow and felt like they were only a shadow of their former selves

[OMAR-vqyb]

In the original trilogy, i just wanted to get back in the Matrix. In Resurrections, I just wanted to get back to the real world because that's the only time it felt like a Matrix movie.

[titaniumman]

When I saw "Smith" shout his famous line in the second trailer, I was worried. Then I saw the movie and was relieved, because apparently my ability to detect utter crap is still functioning correctly.

[SAGEXX]

I absolutely LOVE how serious JJ takes spoilers man, one of the main reasons why he's one of like 2 reviewers I actually subscribe to and consistently tune into.

[DarthRushy]

ironically, they had a different actor play Agent Smith in Revolutions, when he possessed Bane. That actor nailed it.

[CynicSnacks]

It felt like a fan made spoof

I hated it and couldn’t wait to leave the cinema

[jeffreyroedel]

Following Hugo Weaving is a unenviable task. You're right, it should have been a new Agent character with a completely different look, and Smith long gone.

[javier]

The worst part of them cutting in clips of the first matrix is that it remains you that there is a better movie then this with the same story line and way way better versions of Smith and Morphious. Like those two characters seemed like they found two bad cosplayers and let them on set.

[flyingplantwhale]

I was just in disbelief after seeing it. How could it be THAT bad?

The action scenes were a complete betrayal of what was accomplished before. Every punch and kick was terribly choreographed, cut to sh*t, way too close to the characters so you couldn’t actually see the fight.. and the only times they did something ‘cool’ was literally copy/pasted from the previous movies, just done way worse.

I know people use this term quite liberally when they don’t like something.
But this was a real slap in the face to every fan who appreciated the characters, world and filmmaking of the original trilogy.