Director: Lana Wachowski
Actors: Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Ann Moss, Neil Patrick Harris, Jessica Henwick
Genre: Sci-Fi / Action
Rating: M
‘The Matrix Resurrections’ is a semi-reboot, coming 18 years
after the trilogy was completed. We don’t start with Neo (Reeves), but rather Bugs
(Henwick), a Trinity-like character and a refreshed-Morpheus (Abdul-Mateen), as
they search for Neo in the Matrix. Turns out Neo & Trinity (Moss) are both
alive inside the Matrix, but in new simulations, where they don’t know each
other or their past lives and Mr Anderson just so happens to have created a
video game called “The Matrix”. It gets a bit meta in parts.
The film takes quite a while to establish Neo’s new normal, with
the therapist/Analyst (Patrick-Harris) and Smith (Groff) as his business
partner, as well as the new real humans – Bugs and the others that don’t really
get much screen time. Niobe (Pinkett Smith) is back as one of the survivors of
Zion. Once Neo is rescued, it becomes an attempt to free Trinity too. Not
really too much to the plot otherwise, for good or bad. Henwick, Groff and
Patrick-Harris are good, while Moss feels like a secondary character.
One of the main issues is that the CGI on the original trilogy
was so groundbreaking, that it now seems run-of-the-mill. There’s not much new
here in terms of CGI or action scenes, especially after what happened in ‘Revolutions’
(probably worth a re-watch to those that write it off). Sticks to the core tenet
of Neo & trinity’s love being able to disrupt the Matrix, but doesn’t add too
much to the overall Matrix mythology. Definitely not a bad film, just not
exceptional. I assume there will be more films...
Overall: Nice nostalgia trip, without being revolutionary.
Gav's Rating: 3.5 stars.
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