Suburban Senshi Entry #2303 - “The One is back?? Review: Matrix Resurrections!!”
#2303 “The One is back?? Review: Matrix Resurrections!!”
Excerpt Start - 12:04 AM 03/18/23
#suburbansenshisquad
// J_Daito //
how I treat each new day
SpeedRcr_X
You're a morning person?
// J_Daito //
No but I evoke that level of energy and cheer specifically to piss them off.
EmaSkye_LAPD
You truly are evil.
// J_Daito //
:3
Reverend_H
LOL yo what the f[BLEEP]k is this
SpeedRcr_X
Why do they keep hanging him>>>>
// J_Daito //
He was just trying the David Carradine.
SpeedRcr_X
Too Soon
Reverend_H
LOL here's another, yo
SpeedRcr_X
LOL where did you find these man
Reverend_H
YingGirl linked me the clips yo
Next Log Excerpt: “React / Review: The Matrix 4: Resurrections”
FireFly_9
It's been decades since we've even spoken of the Matrix films. The first was revolutionary, the second decent enough and the third...
SpeedRcr_X
You mean "the turd"
FireFly_9
...the less said about it, the better.
FireFly_9
But, years later, here we are again, with an older and wiser post John Wick Keanu Reaves...
FireFly_9
It's time to see if going back to the MAtrix one more time is worth the price of admission.
SpeedRcr_X
I hope there's no rave orgy scene this time... I don't need that mental scarring
.'~SugaBB_2999~'.
hshshssh weekazz
SpeedRcr_X
Oh, the Red Pill
Rule34Rocks
Ugh, Bloody incels ruined that for me.
Rule34Rocks
They made up a whole mess of faux-philosophical bulls[BLEEP]t to justify and pull others into their miserable view of the world.
FireFly_9
I hate it when high concepts are perverted like that.
FireFly_9
...This is already getting mind-bendingly meta...
SpeedRcr_X
HOLY S[BLEEP]T IS THAT NEIL PATRICK HARRIS
FireFly_9
* looks it up *
FireFly_9
it is.
Dr_Xadium
Of course the pills are blue
SpeedRcr_X
This is META about being META
// J_Daito //
wwwHahah I can't believe they brought him back
FireFly_9
And that's the movie. So here's my review:
FireFly_9
Plot: Well, this was well=executed technically. The story was a simple "man saves the woman he loves" narrative, an in that sense it succeeded. As a work of Philosophy as one might have expected from a Matrix film it falls fairly flat, just making the simplistic statement that the masses crave control and order as opposed to free thinking, without really making it a core struggle of the film. Yes, Neo and Trinity have to make "choices", but they are never really tested in the way that would be necessary to get a good exploration of why so many people willingly turn off their critical thinking faculties and submit to the whims of others. 1 out of 2 Dragonnballs.
FireFly_9
Visuals: It's a Matrix film. That's all that needs to be said. 2 out of 2 Dragonballs.
FireFly_9
Audio: A serviceable riff on Matrix themes but nothing remarkable. Even the Rage Against the Machine cover at the end felt obligatory and anemic. One out of two Dragonballs/
FireFly_9
Overall feeling: It was entertaining but unfulfilling. The tropes, even in the action scenes were hoary and not really innovative. One half Dragonball out of one.
FireFly_9
Overall my rating of this film is: Largely competent but hardly unmissable. Four and one-half out of Seven dragonballs.
SpeedRcr_X
At least there was no orgy scene.
FireFly_9
Thank god for that.
FireFly_9
I think, given this film, they should probably just let the Matrix series end here.