Wachowski has also included several cast members from her Netflix series “Sense8” in smaller roles.Īt its core “The Matrix” has always been anchored by its grand love story, with Trinity’s faith (assisted by prophecy) having helped Neo embrace his messiah-like destiny. The principal additions are Yahya Abdul-Mateen II as a new version of Morpheus, Jessica Henwick (“Iron Fist”), Jonathan Groff and Neil Patrick Harris, with Groff enjoying perhaps the juiciest of those parts and clearly relishing it. Clearly, there’s been a glitch in the program, one that will require drawing him back into the previous worlds he occupied and introducing characters to function as his guides. Spoilers are understandably a concern with this sort of eagerly anticipated genre movie, but the one benefit of “Resurrections” is that it’s not entirely clear what there is to spoil.Īs the trailer has revealed, some time has passed, and Neo/Thomas Anderson (Reeves) has moved on, while Moss’ Trinity harbors no memory of him. Although the previous “Matrix” sequels marked a steep decline from the freshness of the original, compared to this film’s missteps all is forgiven. Instead, Wachowski has conjured a film that falls into its own kind of strange nether realm, mixing nostalgia and self-referential callbacks with what feels like a redo of fundamental elements, without satisfactorily explaining (despite scads of exposition) how we got from the earlier trilogy to here. Although director/co-writer Lana Wachowski slyly comments on the commercial nature of the undertaking and it’s nice seeing Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss reunited, the better plan in hindsight might have been to completely reboot the system. I did what I did because I believe that search is over.Complicated in the best of times, “The Matrix Resurrections” is simply convoluted, a collection of flashy digits that don’t add up to much of anything. That is why there are those of us who have spent our entire lives searching the Matrix looking for him. After he died, the Oracle prophesized his return and that his coming would hail the destruction of the Matrix, end the war, bring freedom to our people. As long as the Matrix exists the human race will never be free. It was he who freed the first of us, taught us the truth. When the Matrix was first built, there was a man born inside who had the ability to change whatever he wanted, to remake the Matrix as he saw fit. It's dangerous, the mind has trouble letting go. We have a rule: we never free a mind once it's reached a certain age. But if you could, would you really want to? I feel I owe you an apology. It is another training program designed to teach you one thing: if you are not one of us, you are one of them. Were you listening to me, Neo? Or were you looking at the woman in the red dress? And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it. You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system and that makes them our enemy. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But when you're inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters.
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