Lana Wachowski is set to write and direct a fourth film set in the world of “The Matrix,” with Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss reprising their roles as Neo and Trinity, respectively. Warner Bros. Pictures and Village Roadshow Pictures will produce and globally distribute the film. Warner Bros. Picture Group chairman Toby Emmerich made the announcement on Tuesday. “We could not be more excited to be re-entering ‘The Matrix’ with Lana,” said Emmerich. “Lana is a true visionary—a singular and original creative filmmaker—and we are thrilled that she is writing, directing and producing this new chapter in ‘The Matrix’ universe.”
So sounds like more memberberry pie.
If empire are saying the movie is a skunk…. then it’s very likely a skunk or worse…. :(
Guardian review also terrible
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?!
I was going to watch it Christmas night… but it might actually ruin Christmas
Nice of the Wachowski brothers to let their sister direct but doesn't make for a good movie.
Although if Bradshaw in the Guardian doesn't like it than maybe I will. Hate most stuff he gives 5 stars
Not sure if I've missed a joke or not here
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.
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.
Bad news for you. Lana isn't a woman.
Well aren't you very edgy.
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.
Don’t post in this thread again. Take your trolling somewhere else
Folks stay on topic please
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Accordingly this will hit hbo max at 8am our time. So expect spoilers from 10am lol.
Spoiler.... the film is sh1t
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.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2021/12/the-matrix-resurrections-movie-review/621082/
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.
Ugh it was terrible
Really really terrible
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.
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.
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🤣
My review.
It's a good movie. Not great, not bad.
The end.
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.
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.
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.
The throwbacks are the lamest thing of the whole movie. Sadly, I don't think this movie surpasses even Revolutions.
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.
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.
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?
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