{"id":385053,"date":"2021-12-21T19:00:08","date_gmt":"2021-12-21T16:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-the-matrix-resurrections-review-smart-enough-to-know-its-redundant\/"},"modified":"2021-12-21T19:00:08","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T16:00:08","slug":"watch-the-matrix-resurrections-review-smart-enough-to-know-its-redundant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-the-matrix-resurrections-review-smart-enough-to-know-its-redundant\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch &#8216;The Matrix Resurrections&#8217; Review: Smart Enough to Know It&#8217;s Redundant"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3ca8ebb58ce\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3ca8ebb58ce\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-the-matrix-resurrections-review-smart-enough-to-know-its-redundant\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98The_Matrix_Resurrections_Review_Smart_Enough_to_Know_Its_Redundant%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;The Matrix Resurrections&#8217; Review: Smart Enough to Know It&#8217;s Redundant&#8221;<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-the-matrix-resurrections-review-smart-enough-to-know-its-redundant\/#%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98The_Matrix_Resurrections_Review_Smart_Enough_to_Know_Its_Redundant%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;&#8216;The Matrix Resurrections&#8217; Review: Smart Enough to Know It&#8217;s Redundant&#8221;<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-the-matrix-resurrections-review-smart-enough-to-know-its-redundant\/#optional_screen_reader\" >optional screen reader<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-the-matrix-resurrections-review-smart-enough-to-know-its-redundant\/#Read_More_About\" >Read More About:<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98The_Matrix_Resurrections_Review_Smart_Enough_to_Know_Its_Redundant%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;The Matrix Resurrections&#8217; Review: Smart Enough to Know It&#8217;s Redundant&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98The_Matrix_Resurrections_Review_Smart_Enough_to_Know_Its_Redundant%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;&#8216;The Matrix Resurrections&#8217; Review: Smart Enough to Know It&#8217;s Redundant&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n                        For years, Warner Bros. has dreamed of making another \u201cMatrix\u201d movie, but the Wachowski siblings \u2014 architects of a cyberpunk classic whose <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>eal rests largely on bending rules and questioning authority \u2014 resisted the pressure, insisting they\u2019d said everything they wanted to with the original three films. Let\u2019s not forget: By the end of the trilogy, Trinity died, Neo sacrificed himself and the humans were freed from their virtual shackles, which means anyone hoping to continue that story had their work cut out for them.<\/p>\n<p>That explains a clever moment of self-awareness early in \u201cThe Matrix Resurrections,\u201d a welcome but undeniably extraneous fourth installment \u2014 more of a patch than an upgrade on the franchise that came before, reframing <em>d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu<\/em> not as a bug but as a feature of the brand. In said scene, employees of a San Francisco video <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a> company sit around a corporate conference table, brainstorming how to build upon the Matrix saga. \u201cOur beloved parent company, Warner Bros., has decided they will make a sequel to the trilogy,\u201d one says, explaining that the studio is planning to do it \u201cwith or without\u201d the creators.<\/p>\n<p>Well, if you can\u2019t beat \u2019em, join \u2019em, or so director Lana Wachowski seems to be telling us, slyly stepping back from the dazzling infinity mirror presented in the earlier films to reveal one more layer: the real world in which we the audience reside. Sadly, that\u2019s about as wild and\/or meta as \u201cThe Matrix Resurrections\u201d gets, while the rest could fairly be described as more of the same: more time- and gravity-defying action, more Goth-geek fashion pointers, more \u201cfree your mind\u201d mumbo-jumbo.<\/p>\n<p>Essentially a greatest hits concert and a cover version rolled into one (complete with flashback clips to high points from past installments), the new movie is slick but considerably less ambitious in scope than the two previous sequels. Where those films set out to break sound barriers in our brains \u2014 the way \u201cbullet time,\u201d the highway sequence and Neo\u2019s final battle against an apparently infinite number of Agents Smith did \u2014 this one largely eschews innovation. Rather, \u201cResurrections\u201d takes comfort in the familiar, fleshing out the emotional core of a world that always felt a little hollow.<\/p>\n<p>In short, Wachowski doesn\u2019t add much to the rich mythology she and sister Lilly have established, but she\u2019s careful not to mess it up either.<\/p>\n<p>By reviving Neo (Keanu Reeves), Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss) and a handful of other key characters (some, like Agent Smith and Morpheus, requiring new actors to step in), \u201cResurrections\u201d tethers its latest iteration to the \u201csimulation hypothesis\u201d \u2014 the theory, given oxygen by Elon Musk, that video game <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/technology\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"4\" title=\"Technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">technology<\/a> is advancing at such a clip that odds are good you\u2019re already living in one. The difference, compared with \u201cMatrix 1.0\u201d: The \u201csheeple\u201d in the movie\u2019s brave new world have that potentially liberating information, and still they choose to sleepwalk through their lives. Just like \u2026 you?<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been more than two decades since \u201cThe Matrix\u201d issued the wake-up call. So what are you doing chained to whatever career\/family\/hobby numbs you to what really matters? Like fanboy audiences \u2014 who passively watch heroes disrupt the system, watching, rather than participating in, <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social<\/a> reform \u2014 the humans in this latest simulation stay blind. Neo has reverted to his Thomas Anderson identity, only now, he\u2019s head designer for WB-owned game company Deus Machina and described as a \u201cbalding nerd,\u201d though it\u2019s still Keanu that audiences see, sporting rock-star bangs and a surfer-guru beard.<\/p>\n<p>It would\u2019ve been much edgier to present Reeves as an aging incel with receding hair and a dandruff-speckled turtleneck \u2014 or better yet, as a self-deprecating version of himself, like the one he played in Netflix rom-com \u201cAlways Be My Maybe.\u201d Storytelling has evolved by quantum leaps since 1999, and as futuristic as the \u201cMatrix\u201d franchise once felt, it all seems rather quaint today, what with the advent of \u201creality TV\u201d (consider Paris Hilton\u2019s recent claim that she\u2019s been playing a character all along) and such ontological <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> as \u201cThe Good Place\u201d and \u201cThe OA\u201d (the latter ended with the characters crossing into a new dimension, where they\u2019re all actors on the show we\u2019ve been watching). \u201cThe Matrix\u201d may have made 1982\u2019s \u201cTron\u201d look primitive by comparison, but even that franchise has evolved, leaving this one in the dust.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s not to say the sequel is simply \u201cThe Matrix Recycled\u201d \u2014 although the title is every bit as apt as the more biblical-sounding one they went with, teasing (but never directly addressing) the messianic dimension of Neo\u2019s earlier arc. Off screen, Lana Wachowski has completely reinvented herself in the interim, sharing much of that journey via Netflix\u2019s stunning \u201cSense8,\u201d whereas Thomas Anderson is stuck back in brainwashed mode, wrestling with relatively mundane midlife-crisis questions.<\/p>\n<p>Self-doubts aside, Anderson drags his feet when Morpheus (now embodied by \u201cCandyman\u201d star Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) kicks open a door and tries to offer him the old red-pill enlightenment. Meanwhile, his shrink (Neil Patrick Harris as the Analyst) has him on a steady prescription of blue pills. And then a spunky young cyber-anarchist named Bugs (Jessica Henwick) shows up, having narrowly escaped an obvious-trap \u201cmodal,\u201d or training exercise, where she rescues the new-and-improved Morpheus (Abdul-Mateen is great but seems green vis-\u00e0-vis the sage and sorely missed Laurence Fishburne).<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of green, the phosphorescent glow that defined the trilogy (extrapolated from old-school CRT monitors) has been all but banished here. Yes, a stream of green glyphs spells out the opening titles, and the human survivors of Zion (many played by members of the \u201cSense8\u201d cast) search for signs of Neo and Trinity on outdated screens. But compared with the grim and grimy \u201creal world\u201d spared from a Sentinel attack in \u201cRevolutions,\u201d the dimension where Anderson reunites with Trinity \u2014 now married with kids and going by the name Tiffany (but still played by Moss) \u2014 is rich in color and detail. Strange then that it should look so cheap, conspicuously lacking a striking visual signature.<\/p>\n<p>Far removed from the shadowy film-noir vibe of the original, it\u2019s easy to imagine humans being seduced by such a setting, especially when presented in the magic-hour glow of recent Marvel movies \u2014 and against which the grungy post-apocalyptic realm of spaceships and people pods seems less appealing than ever. That has always been the trouble with the \u201cMatrix\u201d movies: They insist that waking life is far worse than the illusion, asking us to care about the fate of a garbage dump where brain-jacked humans serve as an energy source for the Machines.<\/p>\n<p>Of course we\u2019d rather spend time in San Francisco \u2014 or Berlin, where shooting shifted. These days, instead of battling actor Hugo Weaving\u2019s square-jawed man in black (the original Agent Smith appears only in flashback), Anderson works for a snappily dressed human Ken doll also named Smith (Jonathan Groff, whose good looks reinforce the notion that everything got a major aesthetic upgrade). Once Neo starts to question his reality, it\u2019s Smith he must face off against, again. The subsequent showdown feels overly choreographed, stuck in late-20th-century Hong Kong mode, versus the brute-force fighting style we\u2019ve since seen in Bond movies. Even Neo\u2019s ability to stop bullets and blast energy waves from his hands pales against so many of the superhero abilities to which we\u2019ve been desensitized.<\/p>\n<p>The great irony of \u201cThe Matrix Resurrections\u201d is that a property that was once so appealing for being cutting-edge is now being mined for its nostalgia value \u2014 what a screenwriter friend of mine has dubbed \u201cCuisinArt,\u201d wherein studios are forgoing fresh ideas in order to rehash everything audiences love about the past.<\/p>\n<p>Lana Wachowski has said she agreed to make a \u201cMatrix\u201d sequel after her parents died, taking comfort in being reconnected with fictional family Neo and Trinity. Many viewers will agree, even if it would have made more sense to reboot with an all-new cast of characters. 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