I haven't watched any of The Matrix movies since they first came out in the late 90's/early 00's. But that didn't stop me from watching The Matrix Resurrections over the weekend. Well I say over the weekend, it was actually over yesterday and today. And why did it take me 2 days to watch this movie? I kept on falling asleep during it. That isn't exactly high praise. This was a completely unnecessary sequel, to a series of films that started off great but quickly went off the rails. This film had a lot of callbacks to those previous films - which was a major flaw when some of the key actors did not return for this film. And, fundamentally, it just wasn't a particularly good film - particularly on the story front, where all the "meta" references to the previous films just felt like lazy screenwriting. Whilst bullet time was fantastic in the first movie, that was a long time ago and action filmmaking has come a long way since. Same with the visuals. So this movie felt unoriginal and unmemorable - a generous 2 out of 5.
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