An L

It feels like fanfiction. Some parts are good. I give them credit for most of the fight scenes. I won't say which ones but there were definitely ones that felt very "Why?" I enjoyed the majority of them though so I'll give it that. Dialog I could have almost completely done without. None of the charm. Absolutely none of it. The deeper philosophical conversations, poetic musings, and pieces to go back and analyze later are outright gone. Replaced with blunted instruments they constantly thump you over the head with while the first and even the sequel films were very very subtle with by comparison. Visuals felt... I dunno. I expected more quality on some of it. A lot of it felt super CGI with lens flare and bright colors to mask it. You'll see what I mean in one particular segment you could tell was almost all green screen with no sense of reality. Tech in the Real World of the last Matrix movies always felt more grounded and allowed for more suspension of disbelief but here it gets outright fantastical further cementing the notion of a strange fan fiction given budget, especially towards the last third of the film. Ending felt like it was trying to make a call back to Matrix 1's ending and almost overtly so but fails to understand what made that ending good in its simplicity. Story over all was a mess. Pieces were good and I can get behind, others landed harder than Neo on the pavement for his first attempt at a jump by being way too much on the nose. Had the dialog been even a little better it would have gotten a 3 from me but I felt like I was listening to a Marvel movie, not The Matrix.