Matrix: Resurrections Film Criticism: Should this be a joke?

In 2003, the matrix trilogy ended. The double strike from Matrix Reloaded and Matrix Revolutions brought the fight between people and machines to finalize. Our Jesus figure Neo (Keanu Reeves) and his beloved Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss) changed the nature of the matrix forever and the resistance to Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne) and Niobe (Jada Pickett Smith) observed the triggered deduction previously impossible Machine army over Zion, the last fortress of humanity. For the matrix, a prison desisted as the reality, should also start a new day. In the literally first sunrise of this new era, Oracle (Mary Alice) promises the young Sat (Tan veer K. Attain) that she believes in it to see Neo again.

A promise that we would probably never have to see, it would be to Lana and Lilly Wazowski, who gone to the creators of the series. But Studio Warner Bros. did not lie loose and so at least a part of the sibling pair was gaining in Matrix 4 to take over the direction.

Now Lana Wazowski again sends us again in the rabbit building and puts everything back on the beginning for a Sequel reboot from 2021. Although actually ended at the end of part three finally gone, Thomas Anderson (Keanu Reeves) is Alias ​​Neo in Matrix Resurrections simply again — and caught again in the matrix. Or not?

That's why it's in Matrix: Resurrections

The events of the trilogy, so confirmed to us his therapist (Neil Patrick Harris), were the plot of a successful video game series, for which Anderson was responsible for the end of the 90s as Lead Designer and has included numerous prizes. At some point he could not disassemble his imagination and the (seemingly?) Real world, which did not seize in an attempt to fall from a skyscraper. He has to deal with it that his identity was probably only imagined as a hacker and later Superman-Jesus Neo. Actually, he makes very good progress. At least until his business partner and boss Mr. Smith (Jonathan Goff) approach him and the development of a fourth matrix game is commissioned. Matrix: Resurrections Film Criticism: Should this be a joke? (13) Source: Warner Bros.

Anderson had just squeezed that he and his swarm Tiffany (Carrie-Anne Moss), a woman he does not know, but the more often in the same coffee shop, is not in truth as a post-style Power couple Neo and Trinity the foundations of the acquaintances Brought the world to collapse. She is married to the pretty Chad (REEVES ' Matrix -stuntman Chad Stahelski) and he is only a lonely man who has fantasy into a computer game. But then Morpheus (Maya Abdul-Mateen II) and his friends (u.a. Jessica Hen wick) are suddenly before him and urge him to an adventure...

The monotony of the repetition

Late sequels of this variety usually go into one of two directions: the reboot route, where there are guest performances age stars and references to the original films, but the continuation should definitely serve as an entry point for a new audience, see e.g. Jurassic World. Or the nostalgia / fan service route, in which the entire film seems to be re-constructed for exactly these performances and references. Elements of this can be found e.g. in the continuations on Terminator, Halloween and Star Wars.

Matrix: Resurrections is only apparently in the second direction. Lana Wazowski obviously does not look at any newcomers' inside, but serves a film that can not be followed without the context of the first three parts. Especially in the first half, however, the director seems to be aware of this and makes a fun of excess of these elements through humor. When Keanu Reeves's Thomas Anderson sits in a brainstorming meeting in which corporate drones crawl into the ass and her ideas for matrix 4 pitches, which consist of nothing but superficiality, is not one of the hand to be directed gall About the Sequel delusion in Hollywood. Bumping your own audience in front of your head and incidentally winking about right holder Warner Bros. Funny, seems to be right up on Wazowski's agenda. Matrix: Resurrections Film Criticism: Should this be a joke? (11) Source: Warner Bros.

After all, the dream factory Hollywood has always been a tyrannical machine, which nourishes from the creativity of the people, and he looks like her equivalent in the film.

Whether the scenes in which the director simply throws the original film on the canvas or obviously makes fun of the creative marshland with its brands and franchises funny, pointed satire, or they do not in old shit in their complacency in their complacency, the audience must decide for themselves. At least they were at least for me everyone.

How much matrix is still in matrix: resurrections ?

The explanations, as it could come to the events of Resurrections after it seemed to be clarified at the end of revolutions, but it was delivered in the film, really interested in one's own mythology or the many ideas and motifs that are cut, But then does not seem to be matrix: recur ratings.

Even the action is not so strong in focus, which is quite as a blessing. Set the fight scenes in the 90s with their mix of John-Woo ball ballet, martial arts and the best special effects that you could buy in Hollywood, still identify the same movements with completely casual routine in Resurrections. Scenes in which the fighters of the resistance with the agents adjoin each other and shoot at pistols with pistols, then even look so flat and boring, that they are seriously asked if they are a joke. Only a cool sequence in the end, in which a car tracking hunt is made more difficult by unexpected obstacles, it testifies that Wazowski has not yet been released to compose interesting action set pieces. Matrix: Resurrections Film Criticism: Should this be a joke? (19) Source: Warner Bros.

And although this all sounds catastrophic first, it's somehow the most fascinating aspect of the movie. Just when this whole meta level works and the script like a hare beats a hook after another, matrix: recur ratings captivates more than most late franchise rebirths of recent years. The tension where a story is still wearing, in which genre we will be next and whether it is watch ow skiing to bring everything to a meaningful degree, at least so kept me in her spell that I was ready to have any weaknesses First to forgive and to wait where the journey goes.

with feeling again

Unfortunately, the second half of the movie then leaves much of this energy on the track. In addition, it is covered with dialogues that it is difficult to separate the important information from the trivial lot.

Although the calls to the edge are filled with explanations, as what happened when somehow has happened, essential explanations such as the motivation of some figures or the exact timing line of events are buried or even completely buried under the whole. So at the end, I was not quite clear what the goal of Agent Smith is at all or how his actions should bring him closer to it. Matrix: Resurrections Film Criticism: Should this be a joke? (18) Source: Warner Bros.

However, in this story, understanding is no longer as important as the emotions behind the events. Both action level and philosophy behind the film seems to be the main focus on the feelings of the figures. The love story between Neo and Trinity therefore also occupies the largest room. Whether one touches or passes on the ass, then probably decides whether to leave the cinema after the showdown and leaves unsatisfied. Wazowski Love for your figures is as clear as your apparent hatred of the idea of ​​bringing a fourth matrix movie into the cinema.

Where our main characters and their relationship to each other are at least tested and growing, the rest of the film remains on the track before he simply abruptly ends a bit abruptly. Why I, when the cut to the credits came, nevertheless had to laugh and actually laugh without any maliciousness, I would not want to reveal at this point, but it was a bit mild to the abrupt end.

Even the Süffisanten performances by Jonathan Goff and Neil Patrick Harris earn up, even if both of their figures at the end come slightly too short. And also the New Morpheus Maya Abdul Sateen II, which looks like a magical pimp from the 1970s in his sparkling orange suit, exudes a charm in his scenes. Matrix: Resurrections Film Criticism: Should this be a joke? (5) Source: Warner Bros.

Conclusion

It is not obvious that Matrix: Resurrections is a confused, partly frustrating Kuddelmuddel, which sometimes looks, as important scenes have not been filmed and parts of the deleted scenes landed in the film. In the end, a lot of frustration remains because some ideas had earned a stronger treatment in the film. But at least I was only rarely bored during the somewhat inflated runtime of two and a half hours. Above all, the first half of the film is also simply too strange. From Christian Fussy editor 22.12.2021 at 15:01