If one manages, for a moment, to put aside all we know about The Matrix and its sequels, Resurrections approaches those events in a 'could be' refreshing way. The first part of the movie has the potential to be seen, almost, as a parody of the previous three movies. They could have gone a million different places with this. Neo might never have been Neo. The Modal might just have been a remnant of his deranged mind. Up to the moment Thomas Anderson swallows that red pill this movie had a real chance of bringing closure to the franchise by questioning the reality of everything that actually/supposedly happened in the trilogy. A callback to the biggest question looming over The Matrix, "what is real and what's not". Of course there are all these little clues that seem to confirm the Matrix is real, but even those could have be written off as coincidences and dead-ends in a very elaborate labyrinth. Then Mr. Anderson takes that red pill and all goes downhill quickly. Nothing makes sense, it has all the makings of a low grade, fan made, crowdfunded blunder of a sequel. There is no believable storyline. 60 years passed and what, that's it? Most characters are invisible or have no depth. Even the reason given to keep Neo and Trinity alive only computes as a desperate attempt to revive an amazingly successfully franchise and squeeze in another trilogy. It's a 5/10 for what it could have been, though the movie itself probably doesn't justify such a generous grade.
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