Well courtesy of my HBO Max I watched this last night. These are my thoughts so far:
1) Acting was all over the place. Probably the best performances were Carrie Anne Moss and Neil Patrick Harris. Keanu Reeves was in full "Picking up a paycheck" mode.
2) It isn't woke.
3) The writing is TERRIBLE. The story (such as it is) is way too self referential to the point where it makes the movie feel like a bad parody. It is also incoherent nonsense. I kind of expected writing issues due to trying to start new adventures in a storyline that was conclusively wrapped up in the third Matrix movie, but this was next level bad.
4) The tone of the movie is both inconsistent and WAY off. For all their warts the second and third Matrix films at least managed to stay tonally compatible with the first film. This thing is all over the place and (as stated above) feels more like a parody fan film than an actual narrative piece.
5) Excessive use of scenes from past films. This is a real problem not only because it makes this film lack any identity of its own but it makes it feel like "Video Clip the Movie".
Some things are best left concluded when they finish - and it seems that includes the Matrix. I suspect fans of the films will in essence act like this thing is a bad dream or alt reality thing...
1) Acting was all over the place. Probably the best performances were Carrie Anne Moss and Neil Patrick Harris. Keanu Reeves was in full "Picking up a paycheck" mode.
2) It isn't woke.
3) The writing is TERRIBLE. The story (such as it is) is way too self referential to the point where it makes the movie feel like a bad parody. It is also incoherent nonsense. I kind of expected writing issues due to trying to start new adventures in a storyline that was conclusively wrapped up in the third Matrix movie, but this was next level bad.
4) The tone of the movie is both inconsistent and WAY off. For all their warts the second and third Matrix films at least managed to stay tonally compatible with the first film. This thing is all over the place and (as stated above) feels more like a parody fan film than an actual narrative piece.
5) Excessive use of scenes from past films. This is a real problem not only because it makes this film lack any identity of its own but it makes it feel like "Video Clip the Movie".
Some things are best left concluded when they finish - and it seems that includes the Matrix. I suspect fans of the films will in essence act like this thing is a bad dream or alt reality thing...