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RFalvo69 -> RE: What program/film/documentary are you watching now? (1/2/2022 11:54:40 PM)
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I made the mistake of watching the new Matrix movie and the parallelisms with the new Matrix course ("No more Australian Beauties for you, Mr.Anderson") is strong: i.e. it sucks. Hard.
The only part where I felt something was the beginning. It was rather obviously a self-reflection of a director (only Lana this time) who actually made a single hit - the original Matrix - and that hit is two decades into the past. The meeting where they discuss "the need of doing a fourth Matrix videogame!" (published by Warner Bros.!) made me wonder if it was a middle finger to the real meeting that launched this movie (and there is the prop of a middle finger visible shortly before).
I also felt for Neo as an avatar of the director: rich but burned out, unable to recapture his past creativity, trapped "in the Matrix" forever. Of all things, the beginning of "The Matrix: ReWOKEning" reminded me of that part of "The Aviator" when Howard Hughes is closed in a room, alone and burned out, with his early cinematic successes being projected over and over on a giant wall (a scene that this movie, factually, recreates).
The rest of the movie is a metaphor of "I don't want to do this movie" perfectly executed. The philosophy is diluted and recycled while the plot holes are gigantic. The fights pale both if confronted with the original and what even modern good streaming shows give us. When a Matrix movie apes movies strongly inspired by the original (was it really necessary to copy the corridor fight from "Inception"?) it only reminds me of a faded performer who points to a younger one and says "See? I was like that before that - which only induces sadness.
I like Carrie-Anne Moss, but here she can only do what she is given to do. No other character is memorable. I do not pretend for Hugo Weaving and Laurence Fishburne to return, but at least pull out some actors of the same calibre (I didn't knew Hugo Weaving back in 1999 and I was stunned by the performance of this "who the heck is this??" actor. No joy here). What you get is a LF wannabe, a stunningly vapid Agent Smith and a forgettable "Nu-grrrl power" grrrl warrior with, of course, blue hair (why blue and not red in a Matrix movie, BTW??). And, no, I have nothing against strong female characters - strong like, just saying, Trinity in black leather back in 1999.
Avoid. "The Matrix: Recycled" is boring, sad in not a good way and a pale shadow of the original. The only merit is that this does seem to be exactly what Lana Wachowski intended for it to be.
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