POSITIVES
Who doesn’t love seeing Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss as Neo and Trinity once again? Watching the continuing adventures in the Matrix is a huge incentive to see this movie, but c’mon, it’s really all about the return of Neo and Trinity for a lot of people.
For the new characters in this one, Jessica Henwick is pretty awesome as Bugs. Want more of her, please! Neil Patrick Harris and Jonathan Groff are excellent in this too.
There’s a lot going on with the narrative of this film, but I did enjoy how it further expands on the world building of this franchise, and the overall premise is still fascinating.
Lots of interesting themes, commentaries, subtext, and general thought provoking ideas to chew on, because that’s what I truly love about The Matrix.
Had fun seeing how this movie is so self-aware, and very meta. From subtle easter eggs, recreations of classic Matrix scenes, to full blown clips from the previous films.
NEGATIVES
I dug the easter eggs, meta-ness, and reverence to the original movies, but it can get to the point where it started getting distracting and almost punny.
My biggest disappointment with the movie is that the martial arts sequences and action beats absolutely do not hold a candle to the previous films.
Others might be disappointed with the changes made to certain returning characters.
Speaking of characters, I really felt like several of them could have had far more screen time than they were actually given.
Somehow it felt like I just crammed a TV season into a 148 mins time frame. Made it feel like this was a story that should have just been told on the smaller screen; like on HBO MAX, and didn’t necessarily have to be made into a movie.
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