Adrian Tripon – Google

Finished watching The Matrix Resurrections. As a big fan here is my review: Aesthetics 4/10: Movie looks like a Brazzers parody. The lighting is artificial looking. DP's didn't know how to emulate sunlight. Colors so saturated looks like an Instagram filter, even the scenes with the real world. I have no idea why they chose to show the clips from the original trilogy with that ugly saturated Blu-Ray color correction version. The lens is so artificially sharp you can see Carrie-Anne Moss facial hair during close-ups. Also the camera is shaking all the time during the action scenes. In the trilogy the camera was 99% of time stable and you could feel the kinetic energy from the fights. The shot composition is so tight and up-close that you can't feel the flow of the action. The editing/cuts during the punches and action is anticlimactic. It cuts at the moment of the punch impact and then changes to another camera. Another ugly choice was the way the camera changed the framerate/shutter-speed all the time it made it looked like a soap-opera effect (I call this the "Young and Restless" treatment). There is some greenscreen cringe going on at one point. The matte paintings and special effects in the real world are good though. Story 5/10: The philosophy of the narrative is meta-deconstructionism combined with a heist element genre. Way too much comedy for a Matrix movie. Nostalgia bait with recycled copy pasted shots. Acting 5/10: Morpheus is not Morpheus. He is a pimp from the 70's making out of place jokes. Agent Smith is also miscasted. The actor is way too soft. Surprisingly Neil Patrick Harrison plays solid. Keanu and Carrie are ok too. Ways this movie could have been saved. Hire a genuine good color correction team. Hire a great DP (Director of Photography) like the one from the new Star Wars movies (Steve Yedlin) or shoot on film. Could also do the "DUNE" treatment which is shoot digital and scan on film then scan back to digital to emulate film granulation. Conclusion: Watch "The Last Duel" instead by Ridley Scott. Great movie with solid filmmaking.