The Matrix Resurrections
December 16, 2021 in theaters
Sixty years after the events of the original trilogy, Thomas Anderson lives a quiet life in San Francisco as a video game designer — until the boundaries between his programmed reality and buried memories begin to collapse. The fourth film returns to the franchise with a self-aware, deconstructive approach to its own mythology.
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"This isn't the story you think it is."
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Yahya Abdul-Mateen II's portrayal of Morpheus required him to study the original Fishburne performance without directly imitating it.
THE VERDICT
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A deliberately strange, self-aware return that functions as both sequel and meta-commentary on franchise culture. Lana Wachowski's decision to let the film interrogate its own existence is genuinely bold, and the early sections crackle with a knowing wit the sequels never had. Whether that conceit sustains a full film is a fair question. Audiences and critics split sharply, and that division feels like an honest response to a movie that refuses to be straightforwardly satisfying.
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