David H

FULL & HONEST REVIEW It’s bad. While not as bad as Revolutions (which isn’t saying much), it didn’t really feel like a Matrix movie. If it wasn’t for the lame call-back attempts (the first half was riddled with flashback scene after flashback scene), one could easily forget they were watching a matrix movie, but here’s some other reasons why I didn’t care for the film: For starters, and not intending to be funny here, but Neo looked too much like John Wick. Like, other than the classic body plugs and shaved head following “the flush”, they didn’t even try to change his appearance, like at all. Same hair style/length, same facial hair...and wearing the classic black suit only made it worse, regardless that a black suit was Neo’s common attire for The Matrix, they really should’ve done something different to keep from giving John Wick vibes. For the majority of the movie, he legit looked like he had just walked over from the set of John Wick and started filming his Matrix scenes. So, let’s chalk this blunder up to Costume Design and Hair & Makeup. Moving on… Next up is the pace, or rather, the lack there of. Every time it started picking up steam and we as the audience would respond by sitting up a bit more and creeping our way towards the edge of our seats…just to have the spark fizzle out with another 10-15 minute dialogue scene. Let’s be honest here…nobody liked the original Matrix for its dialogue. Dont get me wrong, there are some great lines throughout the series (like the “there is no spoon” scene - easily amongst the best of them!), nobody is watching this movie for its dialogue. Like, this actually got annoying midway thru the movie to the point where I stopped getting my hopes up for any substantial action sequences and just let it happen, which it did eventually, but… Lastly, when we did get good action scenes, we didn’t get much of Neo’s action. He did some of his classic stuff like bullet dodging and freezing, but nothing new that made us viewers think “wow, cool!”. If anything, it seemed like Neo’s action sequences were “dumbed down” in favor for other characters, to the point where I even found myself asking “was Keanu hurt during filming of this scene?” (I googled after. He wasn’t). So, for a guy who’s “The One”, this made no sense to me. There’s so much more to add, but this is already long enough. All in all, poor excuse for a Matrix movie and easily lands at #3 in the overall Matrix rankings: ▪️1st 🥇 - The Matrix - hands down the best of The Matrix movies and arguably one of the best science fiction movies of all time. 10/10 ▪️2nd 🥈- Reloaded - good Matrix movie. Good sci-fi. Great action sequences and choreography. 8/10 ▪️3rd 🥉- Resurrections - I saw somewhere someone called it “the season 8 of Game of Thrones” 😂. Funny, but true. 5/10 ▪️4th - Revolutions - absolute dog-water. Terrible in every way. Had the potential to be great and had a lot to live up to, which ultimately why it flopped like it did. This is basically Ryan Reynolds’s Green Lantern (Iykyk). 2/10 Also, I refuse to rank The Animatrix with the live-action movies bc it’s animated and thus should be ranked separately. I don’t understand those who clump it in with these when there are completely different aspects to consider like voice overs or costume design or choreography. If you want to know my thoughts on The Animatrix, please find my Google review over there. Stay blessed! 🙏🏼

Pros - Hilarious and entertaining. Great show to binge watch. Love some good ol’ classic Guy Ritchie plots and humor, and topped off as a Netflix original. Cons - The only thing keeping me from giving 5-stars is Freddy, which doesn’t necessarily pertain to the character himself, but rather how the plot lines continuously revolve around him being a screw up. Basically, each episode has Eddie (main protagonist) trying to save Freddy’s life or fixing something he screwed up. One would think after the first couple incidents, Freddy would be kept far away from everything, but then I believe there would be no other segue into “the conflict”. I’m only 3 episodes in and am already annoyed with it, although I’m not sure which is more annoying: Freddy’s constant stupidity or the stupidity of the characters for continuing to trust Freddy to not screw up. Hoping it gets better!

TERRIBLE HORRIBLE ABSOLUTE GARBAGE I’d give zero stars, nay, negative stars if I could. I’m literally sitting in the theater “watching” it while I type this. It’s so bad I couldn’t even wait to get home to inform the world of how awful this movie is. The only reason I haven’t left halfway through is because my girlfriend fell asleep on my arm. Unfortunately, there’s a whole other hour to suffer through. Perhaps I could use this time for a nap myself. DON’T SEE THIS MOVIE! It’s not just a waste of money, it’s a waste of time. It’s a waste of any energy one would use to see or hear with their eyes and ears. It very well could be the worst movie I’ve ever seen, and I’ve seen some REALLY BAD movies. There’s not one single thing that’s good about this movie except for, what I’m so eagerly anticipating, the credits to bring an end to this torture. DON’T WATCH THIS MOVIE! You’re welcome.

Too long and drawn out. They tried to fit 3 story arcs into the movie: an hour of hunger games, an hour of love, 30 minutes of “man-hunter”. Spent like 10 minutes zoomed in on one characters face. No dialogue. Just face. Some walk-n-talks were extremely stretched out, unnecessarily. So glad when credits finally rolled. Not worth seeing at theater. Should’ve waited for streaming.

Terrible. Boring. All hype. Not scary at all. Waste of 2 hours. Should sue production company for wasting my time. Would give -1 if I could