First of all, Happy New Year everyone. Hope you had a scrumptious X-Mas and an even crazier new year party as we ushered into the new year....new hope and all. Last night the fam and I spent the last hour of 2021 (here in South East Asia) sitting through the latest Wachowski brother...err...sister's instalment of the Matrix film series, The Matrix: Resurrections. Yup, that's right, stepped into the cinema hall an hour before the clock hits midnight and came out of it during a brand new year....*heh*.
I have to say that my head's still buzzing from watching No Way Home a couple of weeks ago (I still can't get over the fact that we got to see all 3 Spideys together on screen....epic!). Amidst the bombarment of negative reviews from wannabe film directors on social media, I was even more curious about the new film. There is this one dude on my facebook friends list that gave absurd reviews whenever a new film comes out at the cinema so naturally when he gave his 'absolute professional negative thought' about 'Resurrections', I knew I had to watch it. Big LOL.
For the record, I still believe that there are still people who do not have a clue about the whole Matrix premise e.g. the whole living in a programmed world vs your real self being stuck in the amniotic fluid in a pod somewhere in the real world. These are the same people who dissed the need for a new Matrix film because they don't even understand the trilogy in the first place...*shucks*.
I think 'Resurrections in its own right, had also ridden on the nostalgia train to a good effect. There were a lot of throwback and references to the first 3 films. I thought 'Resurrections was a slight rehash of the first movie, with Neo being forced back into his original role as a computer nerd albeit this time as a game programmer, but with this time with updated tech jargons, like when they mentioned Neo was given a different 'skin' to mask him from being detected.
As I've suspected right from the beginning of 'Resurrections, both Neo and Trinity were in fact deceased after the events in 'Revolutions and later resurrected by them machines (ta-da.....'resurrected = Resurrections....).
I think Neil Patrick Harris did a smashing job as the bad guy, the Analyst. He was pure evil yet has that calm demeanor befitting that of a super villain. If you ask me, he's like a continuation, or possibly the same character in 'Revolutions, the Architect...you know, that John Hammond look-alike guy who turned out to be the programme who pulled the strings to find Neo.
As 'Resurrections takes place 60 years from the point where we last saw Neo and gang in 'Revolutions, it is totally understandable why actors like Laurence Fishburne and the old casts didn't make their way back into the franchise, although there is one familiar face in the form of an 80-plus year old Niobe who apparently still hold some grudge on the events that led to the destruction of Zion. What I didn't understand initially was the unavailability of Hugo Weaving to reprise his role as the iconic Agent Smith. Later I found out that he was busy being involved a stage play at the time when 'Resurrections was being filmed. Weaving might return in Matrix 5 so all is forgiven.
Wait, did I say Matrix 5? The post-credit scene didn't give us much hope either. Cat videos? Cat-rix? That Deus Machina company was just the central computer on Machine City masking as a game publisher that controls Neo's thoughts and memories. So when the post-credit scene showed them discussing nonsensical thoughts about the future of 'movies' and 'video games', was that just a clever ploy to throw us off-guard to continue hoping for a fifth Matrix film? While Neo and Trinity did fly away with the promise of reprogramming the Matrix, that might all be the perfect happy ending presented to us without actually having to make the actual movie.
I don't know, there might be a fifth movie. If not, then we might just have to be content with what we've just seen in 'Resurrections.
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