Marcus Vinson

It's not hard to notice that Matrix Resurrections is a product of today's Hollywood. The originals were pioneers of film/cinematography techniques, had mature and complex themes and dialog, elegantly symbolized existentialism, showed mastery of building tension and emotional impact, and overall set a bar for science fiction. Resurrections has all the tropes of rebooting a successful franchise using the Marvel movie playbook, even complete with a cheesy post credit scene of nerds being nerds, poking fun at today's social trends. Usually reboots re-create the well known scenes but this movie was even so bold as to find a way to literally splice the footage of the original films into the movie as part of the story line. Much of my rant and dislike is just in today's filmmaking. Show me one fight scene that remotely compares to the choreography, cinematography, and impact of the originals. That said I have to give credit for what I think they did right. They advanced the story nicely and developed an interesting Continuation of what happened to the world and to Neo. I think they also carried the theme of questioning what's reality vs simulation well. They could have done far more damage to the story world and story rules that were established in the originals but from this perspective they didn't break any rules or do anything stupid that would have invalidated the plot of the originals or been totally inconsistent as a continuation. The down side is just Waner Bros failing to recognize what made the originals special. We got the bare minimum, "put the same characters, regurgitate the same scenes just because, add more CGI", market safe formulas we are doomed to live with from Hollywood.