Lost some of the magic but still watchable Easy to rate the first three.
10/10, 9/10, 7/10
People weren't kidding when they said this was meta. This is about as meta is it gets. I thought I was watching a behind the scenes documentary at some points. At least at the beginning
Some minor woke bits, nothing too serious. (But seriously making the main bad guy misogynist, it just doesn't make sense)
Still has cool philosophical ideas in it. This is why you shouldn't always trust reviews. Some people just see what they want to see, but it wasn't their choice, they were always going to react like that just as I was always going to defend itl.
Not all of it makes perfect sense but it's a movie, they don't have to. You need to suspend your disbelief and enjoy it for what it is.
Also enjoy the whole idea again of is this reality or is this the matrix and you're being manipulated and held captive.
Very different approach and style to the original 3 but that's ok.
I always find these is it vr/matrix or am I going crazy fascinating. Ultimately how does anyone ever know, it's impossible. We just have to live our lives with the best evidence available until something else comes along to sway you, and even then there's actually no way of knowing. This film still gets my philosophical juices going.
Would have been nice to have a higher purpose main objective (on top of saving trinity) like coexisting with machines or bringing them down etc
And of course the metaphor of the matrix being the double speak and thought police that institutions place on us instead of seeing the world as it really is and our freedoms that we think we have and if you take a step backwards there's actually very little freedom even in the western world still holds true.
There is something missing from this film. A je ne sais quoi and feel to the old ones that doesn't seem to be present in this, maybe it's nostalgia (i don't mean that this film doesn't constantly remind us of how special the trilogy was, just that it's new so can't ever be what the old movies were to us, yet).
Not really a fan of the heist style at the end where the plan is talked through and we see the plan in action in little snippets that cut back and forth.
Nothing particularly new or special but a decent film in its own right.
Went from an 8/10 to 7/10 then the ending almost brought it back up to an 8.
Seems to be missing some of the nuance and magic of the others but still as good as the third which was pretty average.
Maybe one too many call backs.