The fourth installment of the Matrix franchise struggles to connect the dots from the third film.
When the third Matrix film hit the screens almost 20 years ago, we all expected that to be the end. And a great ending it was. So, when it was announced that a fourth film was going to be made the confusion, and expectations were high.
The Matrix Resurrections, starring Keanu Reeves and Carrie Ann Moss, offers very little insight into what we are watching. The film attempts to explain what we are seeing in the opening scene and then gets more confusing from there.
When the film opens, we see familiar scenes where we understand the outcome. But déjà vu reminds us that the matrix can change. And eventually, the expected outcome we all remember is a change in the matrix. Thus, begins movie number 4.
Because there is such a time gap between films, technology has impacted the matrix as well. They are longer dialing into the network. Hacks have replaced events, and the world we all came to love has evolved into a machine shared world where agents are not feared at all.
Morpheus, played by Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, is a watered-down version of Lawrence Fishburne. The dialogue in the film borrows a ton of references from the first three films making it corny. Some of the supporting cast was almost annoying to see on the screen. If ever a movie was trying too hard, it’s this one.
All that can be said about The Matrix Resurrections is, lay any future films to rest and allow the first three to continue to entertain us. This film gets two out of five stars.
2021-12-21
