I was pretty worried about this movie after seeing the trailers and knowing Fishburne, Weaving etc wouldn't be back. Also considering the nature of the directors siblings and only one of them now writing it, the current trends and issues movies face these days. I had to wonder would it have any vapid box ticking or be created purely from love and creativity like the original trilogy? I dove in cautiously, and regret every painful second.
A dialog near the start "Obviously the matrix is about > trans activism, crypto fascism, it's a metaphor of > capitalist exploitation" sets a weird and concerning tone. Along with the word "binary" shoehorned into every other sentence with no attempt to veil the writer's intention. It's clear this movie was going to highly politicised and likely quite terrible.
It's rather cringey and also derivative of the 1st, it tries to rehash the original and use the ploy of copying what was successful with a few changes to try mooching off the original's success. The movie lives off box ticking and far-left social political messaging rather than any actual care, substance or thought - which the first movie was made from thoroughly.
The action sequences and camera work felt drab and lacked any oomph, and the awful dialog/music etc just completely felt off key. You'd hope new content would be brought to the table, but also that Lana? Wachowski would remember the tone and feel of the franchise created decades ago.
Even Keanu as much as we all love him, couldn't shave or cut his hair (probably due to close filming schedules for the Wick movies) so unfortunately you just have a mopey version of John Wick rather than Neo.
Not to mention Lawrence Fishburne was not brought back.
Some people have gripes with the 2nd and 3rd movie, but they are art compared to this. Stick to the original trilogy, this movie is an insult and nothing more than a vehicle to push the writer's social/political ideology in lieu of anything meaningful. It abandons near everything that made the original trilogy what it was. And the character's ramble on without actually saying anything.
A dialog near the start "Obviously the matrix is about > trans activism, crypto fascism, it's a metaphor of > capitalist exploitation" sets a weird and concerning tone. Along with the word "binary" shoehorned into every other sentence with no attempt to veil the writer's intention. It's clear this movie was going to highly politicised and likely quite terrible.
It's rather cringey and also derivative of the 1st, it tries to rehash the original and use the ploy of copying what was successful with a few changes to try mooching off the original's success. The movie lives off box ticking and far-left social political messaging rather than any actual care, substance or thought - which the first movie was made from thoroughly.
The action sequences and camera work felt drab and lacked any oomph, and the awful dialog/music etc just completely felt off key. You'd hope new content would be brought to the table, but also that Lana? Wachowski would remember the tone and feel of the franchise created decades ago.
Even Keanu as much as we all love him, couldn't shave or cut his hair (probably due to close filming schedules for the Wick movies) so unfortunately you just have a mopey version of John Wick rather than Neo.
Not to mention Lawrence Fishburne was not brought back.
Some people have gripes with the 2nd and 3rd movie, but they are art compared to this. Stick to the original trilogy, this movie is an insult and nothing more than a vehicle to push the writer's social/political ideology in lieu of anything meaningful. It abandons near everything that made the original trilogy what it was. And the character's ramble on without actually saying anything.
