We look forward to watching The Matrix Resurrections on HBO Max (one of the best streaming services) next week. It almost seems too meta, and that seems far too complicated.īut Knight enjoyed it, so it sounds like Lana Wachowski has threaded the most complicated of needles. Now, I don't know about you, but there are some things in that very positive reaction that sound like (again) a film many won't want. Appropriately gorgeous, messy, corny, romantic, and contains at least three chill inducing moments." And then he uses a bit of profanity to declare how emphatically he "loved it."
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Why is it similar to the super-meta 1994 horror movie (which has an 80% Rotten Tomatoes score) that you may have forgotten? Knight said it's "a meta mirror for a culture that'd demand/dissect an IP-driven rebootquel to revolutionary sci-fi cinema. Similarly, there's a since-deleted tweet (posted before the social media embargo broke) from Jacob Knight (via Reddit (opens in new tab)), where he - positively - compares The Matrix 4 to. Oh, and worried about rewatching all The Matrix movies first? Jones didn't, said the film "caught him up to speed," in a separate tweet (opens in new tab) where he noted "It's great actually. Meta movie making, especially in this world where Spider-Man: No Way Home's cinematic universe-shattering casting is possible, and other films practically shatter the fourth wall, isn't everyone's cup of cinema. That said, he also praises it as "cheekily meta, hella violent, and in its core, has a beautifully romantic plot," and Lana Wachowski's "best sci-fi romance flick yet"Īnd this sets up my expectations for the film, and helps me understand why the negative reviews may have been that way. Movie reviewer Rendy Jones (opens in new tab) called it "the 22 JUMP STREET of Matrix sequels," which is as weird and unexpected a comparison as any. More dislike came from Walter Chaw, who needed fewer words, declaring the film to be "hot garbage." The Matrix 4's early positive reactionsĭon't give up hope, though. Long, plodding, and exposition driven." Which, as a ticket holder myself, is concerning.ĭave Chen (opens in new tab) also was annoyed, writing "#TheMatrixResurrections was a disappointment." And while he wasn't entirely negative, this is the line that has me concerned about the film: "But the movie's lack of stakes is deathly & even worse, its plot detracts from what was accomplished in the OG trilogy." Film critic Kevin Lee (opens in new tab) called the film "very flawed. " The Matrix 4's early negative reactions
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But it's another line from Rivera: "On top of all that, it is also a kick-ass work of sci-fi action - propulsive, gorgeous, and yet still intimate - that revisits the familiar to show audiences something very new," that shows off a love for the film.Įntertainment Weekly's (opens in new tab) review by Joshua Rothkopf gives the film a B+, and it's mixing praise with concern, with the line "It's a do-over without a full share of wonderment, but still a lot of fun." If you're here for romance, you may be the happiest member of the audience, as Rothkopf notes "But Resurrections does eclipse its predecessors for full-on, kick-you-in-the-heart romance: Reeves and Moss, comfortable with silences, lean into an adult intimacy, so rare in blockbusters, that's more thrilling than any roof jump (though those are pretty terrific too). Over at Polygon (opens in new tab), Joshua Rivera writes "The opening act of The Matrix Resurrections is wonderfully confounding, a delicious way to recreate the unmooring unreality of the original to an audience that has likely seen, or felt its influence, countless times." So, yes, this praise doesn't exactly sound like the most ringing endorsement. Bradshaw's positives are minimal, such as "ingenious touches (a very funny name, for example, for a VR coffee shop)" and being "a degree of charm as a love story of middle age."Īt The Hollywood Reporter (opens in new tab), John Defore explains that The Matrix Resurrections is "the kind of sequel Hollywood wants most - practically the same thing as the first, with just enough novelty to justify its existence - albeit one that thinks it can have it both ways, both bowing to and sneering at the industry’s need for constant regurgitation of familiar stories." The Matrix 4's positive reviews This movie is set up to initiate a possible new series, but there is no real creative life in it." As someone who just watched The Matrix Revolutions, this is disconcerting.
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