Luke Stoltenberg

The concept itself was interesting, I suggest watching it yourself to find out and make a judgement without any spoilers, but there is a point where you will go "ah, ok, I see" and you will either like it or hate it. Of all the recent re-boot-yet-sequel franchise disasters though, this was probably the least disastrous in my own opinion. Although it did not feel absolutely necessary as a story, I guess if you're gonna do it anyway this ain't a bad way to go about it. one might think of it the same way as about Reloaded and Revolutions - just a story set inside the universe of and related to The Matrix but not necessarily the continuation of a story that stands fine enough on its own. Reeves and Moss did a good enough job, getting pass marks for an established chemistry and doing just enough to hold this one together from start to finish. I found myself feeling cognitive dissonance at the thought of them being apart and unaware of each other, and rooting constantly for them to wake up. Returning to Neo and Trinity's innocent romance of fate was like putting on an old pair of jeans. The chemistry was tight yet comfortable even if I had grown out a little over 20 years. The lack of Don Davis though is jarring, as the soundtrack abruptly shifts moods between application Davis' piercing signature horn section riffs and Kilmek and Tykwer's competent yet somehow generic-sounding "modern movie soundtrack" score. I guess that type of breakbeat and electronic music is kind of daggy today so it may not have sounded very fresh if they tried to keep it consistent. We will never know I guess. A bit irreverent at times with its own source material but Resurrections successfully manages to poke fun at the modern Hollywood fixation on nostalgia as the sole source of revenue of which it is a product.