The Matrix Resurrections (with Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss and Lana Wachowski)

MisterAnarchy · 21-12-2021 6:21pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118357198#Comment_118357198

There are no spoilers in that review, you have picked that up the wrong way.

silliussoddius · 21-12-2021 7:37pm

So sounds like more memberberry pie.

EltonJohn69 · 21-12-2021 10:01pm

If empire are saying the movie is a skunk…. then it’s very likely a skunk or worse…. :(

EltonJohn69 · 21-12-2021 10:02pm

Guardian review also terrible

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000 · 21-12-2021 10:04pm

This is gonna be absolutely horrific isn't it.

All signals point to definitely... It can't be as bad as the second or third one can it?!

EltonJohn69 · 21-12-2021 10:06pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118358369#Comment_118358369

I was going to watch it Christmas night… but it might actually ruin Christmas

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000 · 21-12-2021 10:18pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118358389#Comment_118358389

Nice of the Wachowski brothers to let their sister direct but doesn't make for a good movie.

21-12-2021 10:21pm

Although if Bradshaw in the Guardian doesn't like it than maybe I will. Hate most stuff he gives 5 stars

RocketRaccoon · 21-12-2021 10:29pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118358457#Comment_118358457

Not sure if I've missed a joke or not here

21-12-2021 11:18pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118358516#Comment_118358516

Could be a reference to not believing that Lana is really a woman, but is maybe just an autogynephilic BDSM fetishist, as was revealed in the now pulled, infamous Rolling Stone article.

https://lulz.com/the-mystery-of-larry-wachowski-5443/

MisterAnarchy · 21-12-2021 11:56pm

Ive seen reviews saying that its the funniest Matrix film and its great fun.

I never like to hear that a film is fun, and the Matrix films werent funny in a deliberate manner.

Not a good sign.

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000 · 22-12-2021 12:24am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118358786#Comment_118358786

Bad news for you. Lana isn't a woman.

blue note · 22-12-2021 12:38am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118359072#Comment_118359072

Well aren't you very edgy.

22-12-2021 3:04am

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Thinking it can't be as bad as the second, suggests you lack imagination. I imagine it could be much worse.

Venom 2, should have been epic but it was a mess. Not seen Spider-man or Ghostbusters yet but have my expectations set pretty low.

Sad Professor · 22-12-2021 6:39am

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Don’t post in this thread again. Take your trolling somewhere else

Folks stay on topic please

/mod

B.A._Baracus · 22-12-2021 6:42am

Accordingly this will hit hbo max at 8am our time. So expect spoilers from 10am lol.

StevenToast · 22-12-2021 7:27am

Spoiler.... the film is sh1t

johnny_ultimate · 22-12-2021 10:51am

A couple of critics I've a lot of time for have been effusive in their praise for the film. Really looking forward to seeing it now, hopefully this week.

https://www.vulture.com/2021/12/the-matrix-resurrections-movie-review-matrix-4.html

https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2021/12/the-matrix-resurrections-movie-review/621082/

RocketRaccoon · 22-12-2021 4:18pm

I watched it earlier, its passable. Not a patch on the first movie of course but some of it was very good, obviously I won't say much just in case but I enjoyed it.

thomas anderson. · 22-12-2021 6:58pm

Ugh it was terrible

Really really terrible

Penn · 22-12-2021 7:11pm

I thought it was decent. As I and most predicted, not a patch on the first, but better than the sequels. They went a bit overboard on the meta stuff at the start, and Morpheus' whole inclusion in the film was entirely unnecessary, and clearly done just to have "Morpheus" in the film/trailers. The Merovingian as well was... oof....

There were also a lot of missed opportunities. The fights were pretty bland, missing the mark between the inventiveness of the first and the overblown cgi-fest of the sequels.

All that said, it was a decent watch. I really liked New-Smith, even though performance-wise he's not a patch on Weaving, I enjoyed his character evolution in this. Neo and Trinity were terrific as you'd expect, and the general story was okay.

22-12-2021 7:24pm

Just back from watching this. It's not as bad as I feared, but obviously not a patch on the original. There's plenty of throwback nostalgia nods to the original, although some of it is overdone, with trying to basically just replicate particular scenes. My teenage daughter who has only seen the original once, also enjoyed it. Although it is better than the first two sequels, it would hold no re-watch value for me.

sioda · 22-12-2021 7:43pm

Just out of it there and I liked it.

Love the kickback to the original film and the adjustment of the new world tbh.

New Smith I get he's way more fun but Merv swung it for me quality over acting.

Nice to see Sense8s again🤣

FutureGuy · 22-12-2021 7:45pm

My review.

It's a good movie. Not great, not bad.

The end.

ancapailldorcha · 22-12-2021 7:51pm

God, this was tedious. It felt like a remake of the original film and it was peppered with clips from the trilogy for no unfathomable reason beyond perhaps the director thinking we'd forgotten said trilogy. Spiderman: No Way Home rewarded people who'd seen the previous sets of films with references but this felt like having nostalgia rammed down my throat rather than the new Matrix story I was expecting.

The action sequences were completely banal, I don't remember the soundtrack at all save for Jefferson Airplane's White Rabbit. The closest thing there was to a new idea was hinting with all the subtlety of being walloped with a brick that Jessica Henwick's character is non-binary.

I consider myself quite forgiving when it comes to many things but I truly despise being bored in a cinema.

Falthyron · 22-12-2021 8:05pm

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On your point about nostalgia being rammed down your throat, I think you misunderstood what was happening here. The first hour of the film is a clear critique of the current state of Hollywood remakes/reboots, etc. In fact, the line by Morpheus 'Nothing like a bit of nostalgia to comfort people's anxiety' says it all. Spiderman is pure nostalgia wankery and revels in it, but that is part of the charm of MCU so it gets a pass. Although, I would agree the flashbacks in Resurrections weren't necessary. The original Matrix treated their audience as intelligent and let them digest the plot and it's intricacies in their own time, and they should have taken the same approach with this - we didn't need to see 'connections or links'. In short, if you didn't see the originals, you shouldn't be at this film.

Resurrections is without a doubt a sequel. So, if you are expecting a reboot/remake/remaster, rest assured, you won't get that.

ancapailldorcha · 22-12-2021 8:14pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118362538#Comment_118362538

I see your point. The problem there though is that whoever wrote this thought that one or two hints wouldn't be sufficient so they had to have Anderson's business partner give him the name of their giant parent company, Warner Bros. as if he wouldn't have known it already.

It could have worked as a tongue-in-cheek quip but it just became tedious.

corcaigh07 · 22-12-2021 8:43pm

The throwbacks are the lamest thing of the whole movie. Sadly, I don't think this movie surpasses even Revolutions.

santana75 · 23-12-2021 12:01am

Went to see it earlier and it's atrocious. I found myself nodding off after 20 minutes, it was just boring. Keanu reeves comes across like he's perpetually baked, his delivery is really stilted and forced. Its not a good movie, simple as that. I'd recommend avoiding this one and not parting with any of your hard earned cash.

corcaigh07 · 23-12-2021 12:10am

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You're spot on.

Random shout out here but Matrix 4 reminded me of Saw 3. In Saw 3, they just kept showing clips of Saw 1 (which was a better movie than it gets credit for) hoping you'd forget how bad the new movie is.

I'd say more but don't want to get close to spoiling.

Padre_Pio · 23-12-2021 12:24am

I got this on the dodgy box and I'm so happy I did.

I'd be sick to my stomach paying money to see this movie. Turned it off after an hour.

What did they do to the Merovingian?

23-12-2021 12:59am

I was on board with the second movie, loved it even but remember being super pissed walking out of the 3rd on day one but mellowing to it in recent years seeing it a second time out. Could have been worse says me, yeah could have been as bad as the 4th movie and even worse than the Sense 8 scutter they made for Netflix.

I didn't rate V for Vendetta at all or Speed Racer which I think they only did screenplays for so what else have they really done other than Matrix? I just felt my time was robbed by them creating a franchise when one movie was good enough to do the job.

Housefree · 23-12-2021 1:03am

Go in with the lowest of low expectations and you will still be disappointed

MisterAnarchy · 23-12-2021 1:06am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118364124#Comment_118364124

Bound, their first film, they wrote and directed it, it is excellent.

corcaigh07 · 23-12-2021 1:16am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118364124#Comment_118364124

I'd give V for Vendetta another chance

MisterAnarchy · 23-12-2021 1:28am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118364188#Comment_118364188

Great film

fritzelly · 23-12-2021 4:07am

Was a passable film - if you can make it thru the first hour or so

Think the last 30 minutes or so saved the film from being crap

Is it just me or were those fight scenes atrocious? I mean not Taken bad but everything seemed to be done really slow, think they could have done with speeding them up by 50% in post processing to make them look somewhat decent. You can forgive Reeves not been able for it considering he's reaching OAP bus pass age but the rest of them?

OhHiMark · 23-12-2021 11:15am

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The Merovingian wasn't in the film until an hour and 20 minutes.

23-12-2021 11:35am

It takes ages to get going, even when it gets going it's boring. It looks like a cheap CSI show at times - the lighting and camera work etc just looks cheap. There's a cheesy motion-blur effect that is way overused. Most of the "team" are uncomfortably bad at acting, they wouldn't be out of place in a student movie. They have some generic black guy for Morpheus, he doesn't have 1/10th the presence of Laurence Fishborne. There are no memorable scenes or set-pieces like there were in the first movie, everything is bland and forgettable. It drags on too long.

It pointless.

somuj · 23-12-2021 1:23pm

Muck.

It dint even look like any of them were acting. Just reading lines for the scene.

BruteStock · 23-12-2021 3:15pm

If what was said about Warner Bros in the film is actually true, then this movie is a troll. Otherwise its a failure with some good moments here and there

Thargor · 23-12-2021 8:30pm

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My thoughts exactly, I wouldnt say as bad a pointless nostalgia cash-in as the 2 recent Ghostbusters but it was close, a steaming turd of a film. So many scenes where its more like an SNL rip of the first film or one of those sketches they put on before the oscars, this scene in particular is where I would have walked out if Id payed for it but thankfully I downloaded it instead, pathethic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qtHO1uij3k

Tilikum17 · 23-12-2021 9:10pm

I started it last night with herself. I went to bed after an hour.

Watched the 2nd have there….

shouldn’t of bothered.

Rubbish.

johnny_ultimate · 23-12-2021 10:21pm

I **** loved it. Truly.

Didn’t think Hollywood had these kind of bold, eccentric, personal, passionate sequels in it anymore. It’s a mess of ideas in the best possible way - angry meta-commentary on franchise sequels; lovely, cornball and charming romance story; pure, weirdo Matrix sequel; even a bloody heist film for a bit. If you’re just expecting ‘more Matrix’, you’ll only find drips and drabs here. If you want to see a wild new film from a major auteur using the Trojan horse of a legacy sequel… hoo boy this is something.

Right down to the look of the thing - incredibly raw, harsh and - most surprisingly - warm digital cinematography that feels almost the polar opposite of the slick, clinical, blue/green-tinged look of the original films - it’s Lana coming back to her most famous creation, reimagining it from a new, fascinating perspective. It’s the opposite of a ‘memberberries sequel - every callback is driven by theme, and it aggressively avoids so much of the easy gratification we’ve come to expect from the ‘for the fans’ sequel. Some characters are unrecognisable or broken; others get the triumphant moments or tragic punchlines they were denied last time around. It’s also a fascinating post-war film - sidelining any kind of major, world-threatening conflict in search of something more personal and the complicated quest for true peace.

The first 45 minutes is a delightfully cheeky meta-commentary on corporate filmmaking from within the system itself, and a reckoning with the messy legacy of The Matrix. The return to the ‘real world’ lulls a bit, it must be said, but the final act is a glorious, romantic blast. Some fantastically weird, imaginative set pieces too where the spatial and time borders just kind of collapse away.

Reeves and Moss are fantastic, but Jessica Henwick is just magnificent.

What can I say: I sat in the cinema with a stupid grin on my (masked) face the entire damn time. It’s big, indulgent, deeply personal filmmaking - a vivid burst of oddball creativity when almost all modern blockbusters are frigid and impersonal. Messy and indulgent? Absolutely, and I wouldn’t have it any other way.

Padre_Pio · 23-12-2021 10:56pm

Beauty is definitely in the eye of the beholder.

Maybe this movie is ahead of its time and I'll come back to it in 19 years and re-evaluate.

It worked for MGS2.

johnny_ultimate · 23-12-2021 11:32pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118368007#Comment_118368007

Ah sure Speed Racer has already been (rightly!) gradually re-evaluated as one of the more visionary CG blockbusters so the Wachowskis have form in that regard ;)

I actually totally get why many won’t like this film! Maybe they will eventually come around it, maybe they won’t! I’m just speaking for myself when I say I adored the thing in all its strange, unwieldy glory :)

anplaya27 · 23-12-2021 11:35pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118367837#Comment_118367837

Saw it today.

Pure crap.

fluke · 23-12-2021 11:55pm

It's not for everyone. Sometimes the momentum gets winded, and it isn't a meat and potatoes sequel, but I enjoyed this.

youcancallmeal · 24-12-2021 12:56am

I'm a huge fan of the original trilogy, even movies 2 and 3! This movie was utter nonsense, stupid plot, zero stakes, poor action scenes, terrible dialogue, dodgy cgi, immediately forgettable secondary characters etc etc. As the movie progressed I was getting the impression that Lana Wachowski didn't even want to make it but from watching/reading recent interviews with her I'm not so sure, I think she might just be creatively bankrupt

Edit: I'm just thankful the ending wasnt a blatant setup for a 2nd trilogy, or maybe it is!?

tom1ie · 24-12-2021 1:31am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117868662#Comment_117868662

I like this idea.

Watching the original matrix now.

The Matrix Resurrections (with Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss and Lana Wachowski)

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