what's going on it's all my movie fans out there and welcome back to my channel movie
files ellie back again with a brand new early movie review and this is a big one because we
are back in the matrix we're talking the matrix four the matrix resurrections i saw it
in theaters last week in imax and i'm here to let you all know my pros and my cons and let you know
if you should take the blue pill and stay as far away from this movie as possible or if you should
take the red pill see it on hbo max or see it in theaters we're breaking it all down here in this
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importantly leave your thoughts in the comments once you've seen this film let me know number one
your anticipation level for the movie if you're a fan of this franchise but once you've seen it
we're talking pros we're talking cons favorite moments least favorite moments
what was your favorite new character but more importantly once you've seen this fourth matrix
do you want to see more in the form of a matrix 5 or a hbo max tv series and since this is the
fourth live action matrix film let's rank all four of them in the comments below so
let's just get this out the way i'm a matrix fan i remember seeing this in theater back in 1999 it
is easily one of my favorites if not my favorite action sci-fi film of all time i don't hate the
second one i know it has its flaws but i like it for what it was and i think we can all agree
the third matrix is a mess of a movie but when it comes to this fourth one when i heard keanu reeves
was coming back carrie anne moss was coming back i'm i was bummed to hear that lawrence friends
bird wasn't gonna be black as morpheus but when they said yeah yeah i was stepping in i'm a big
fan of yaya dual matting the second the one of the sisters were coming back lana and when i saw
the first two trailers i'm like okay i'm popping red pills i'm ready to go back into the matrix so
what did i think about it starting off my pros first and foremost i think for me personally
i'm going to start off with the best part of this movie keanu reeves and carry on moss as
trinity are easily the best part of this film their chemistry is off the charts it's like
they've never left these characters now i want to talk about keanu as neo who i think
this might be his best performance in the role as neo i think he gives you so much range and i i
love keanu i don't think he has the most range as an actor he's great at what he does the john wicks
the neos the action movies but he doesn't have the most range he's not denzel he's not leo but he's
giving us range in his role and i love just seeing him and knowing where he is in this world 20 years
removed from the matrix the blue pill version of neo i just love the nuance in this performance but
transitioning to carrie and moss as trinity she was fantastic in this movie and again their
chemistry is great but just her individually speaking it's it's the it's the care it's the
passion it's the badass i mean trinity is one of the most badass characters of all time and she has
an arc in this film she has revelations that she discovers in this film she has just so much going
on and again them too on screen it's just magic it's them two on screen just put a big smile on
my face and i thought like i said they were easily the best part of this film so if you are a fan of
neo and trinity i personally think you will not be disappointed in their role in this movie and i'll
just say that but let's transition over to there were some other performances and particularly
jessica henwick who i'm a fan of her as an actress she is a superstar just waiting to
hatch and i think this might be that opening role i thought she was the best part of iron fist and
she was great in game of thrones she's been great in other projects but she was great she plays a
character by the name of bugs i won't say who she is in the matrix but she is a cool character
a badass character to say the least and she was out of all the new cast members to me she was the
best new character and she was one of the best characters in the film in general i just loved
her i thought she had a lot of energy a lot of charisma she demanded your attention in her role
and i thought that she was fantastic i mentioned that i am a fan of yaya now i have a lot more
cons that i do pros of him as morpheus but i thought it wasn't due to the performance of yaya
but i'll talk about him a little bit later but he was okay i'll just say that for the positive
he was okay but again i have more criticism with that character but let's transition into a little
bit of the narrative without spoiling anything i thought for me the first half exploring this
blue pill version of neo and how he is in today's society in the commentary that lana brought to
reboot sequels prequels how she didn't want to make the sequel how warner brothers maybe
forced her to do a sequel the other ideas that warner brothers wanted to do to continue the
story and how she came to make the matrix the commentary in the first half to me was
very unique very and i was like i'm loving this so far i'm loving the narrative that she's putting
into the story how she's tying that into the story of the matrix it was very meta very self-aware and
the first act to me which is very creative now i do have some issues with the creative choices
but i will say when it comes to lana even if i'm not a fan of all the choices she made in this film
i can't disregard or dismiss the the risks there's a lot of risk to be had in this film love it or
hate it i just love when a director does something different i didn't like the differences but
i applaud them and i'll just kind of leave it at that but again the first half commentary
was really really interesting to me and also i can't leave out the third act of the film
the second half we'll talk about that later but the third act when it comes to the action
i was very happy with the entertainment value and some of the power sets some new powers some
new revelations that we learned in third act that was very entertaining so first half third
act i was pretty entertained for the most part and very compelled with the story now as far as other
sequences without explaining the sequences there is a train fight that takes place in
the film and it reminded me a lot of trainer bastan and the reason i say that is because
there are there's an introduction to i'll just say they're called bots and they reminded me a lot of
zombies and they were pretty menacing and and pretty cool to see at the same time and i thought
that was cool uh and then last but not least when it comes to there's gonna be there's obviously
nostalgia and that's something that the film plays on again it's very meta when it comes to
revisiting some things that we love from this franchise which i had a good time with
there's a little bit too much nostalgia but there are points where i'm like oh man i'll
that's that's from part one that's from part three even though i hate part three or that's from part
two there's certain characters that makes cameos that i'll just say was very surprising but there
are beats of nostalgia that i enjoyed and also the scores fantastic it looks beautiful this this the
production the film the cinematography was great as well as certain camera angles they choose to
use and there is the uh reintroduction to bullet time which i thought was really interesting the
way they use that so there are some good things to say about this film and particularly the chemistry
between neon trinity off the charts but for me i hate to say this but there are way more criticisms
that i have this movie that i do with positives the biggest of them all this film is extremely
convoluted and i tell you all when it comes to exposition this film spends so much time
explaining so much of unnecessary dialogue i get and as i say that listen i understand you have to
number one you're talking to the audience from the first three matrix movies you're talking to
a new audience that maybe has never seen it so you do have to kind of explain the world
where have characters been why are characters back why isn't this character back it it explains it in
a way that is it's easy to digest but i felt at points and particularly when we go to the second
half of this film which i think is the weakest part of this movie it spends so much dialogue of
rabbit hole upon rabbit hole okay the zion is different but it's the same the matrix is the
difference the same the reboots this is just so much unnecessary exposition is so much ex
it looks like unnecessary dialogue i'm not gonna lie to you all i was extremely bored at points and
i've never fell asleep in a movie nor did i fall asleep in this movie but there were times where
i was literally bored to the point that i like had to hit myself to wake up because it was just
so convoluted with just so much boringness in the exposition of explaining the world that i'll just
i was not a fan of the exposition in this film i mentioned a little bit of some of the supporting
characters the ones that work for me like i mentioned bugs but a lot of the other supporting
characters in particularly bugs and her crew that she has in his film they were like cosplay done
wrong like those supporting characters to me were just very dull very generic which brings me to you
know some of the characters without spoiling thing i'll mention neo his his business partner who i
won't say who he is but in imdb his character name is smith i thought that the actor jonathan groff
who plays his business partner i thought the actor was fine but i just didn't like the portrayal of
the character especially who the character is and then i mentioned yaya earlier i think yaya does
his best but him as morpheus i hate to play the nostalgia game but it's just he's miscast it's you
you can't replace lawrence in that role that would be essentially to me and this is just my personal
opinion it would be like replacing you know carry on moss or replacing keanu reeves in the role like
it's essential to the matrix and i just felt like yaya you're a great actor i can't wait to see the
future of you as an actor but i just think that he was miss cassandra from my personal opinion
i know some of you all might disagree with me but i just think that when it comes to again and
also the analysts in this film uh played by neil patrick harris this is a lot of those characters
to me just didn't work for me but i i mentioned the convoluted plot the biggest issue with me in
the second half when we go to zion in particular when we meet a particular character this isn't a
spoiler because she's in the trailers jada pickett smith as niobe not only does she look bad visually
i hate the prospects they gave her to age her up to make her look old and weary and wore you know
fault but she looked terrible her performance was just as bad her she just seemed like i don't know
if it was lana's direction i don't know if it was jada trying to add something new to the character
i didn't like it i thought she was the worst character in the film but in particular when we
go to zion to me the the momentum that was built in the first half it came to just a complete stop
to me when we went to zion and they just started explaining all the stuff what's been going on why
are certain people working with certain this when i got bored because it was just like dialogue
dialogue dialogue and i love dialogue but not when it's just like when it overshadows the momentum of
the film and it's just like unnecessary dialogue so the stuff online to me did not work at all in
my opinion it's the pacing in the second half again the second half is the weakest element
of this film i mentioned how some of the action beats to me the train sequences the action set
piece and the third act that stuff was at its best as far as action go the the slow motion bullet
time the way they implemented in this version of the matrix is interesting but when you look at the
action i know the bar is like all the way up here because again if you look back in 1999 the visual
effects the slow motion all that stuff changed the action industry forever right for the best but
when you look at how they use the action the slow motion the choreographed fights to me it was bad
it was and this it's just my personal preference i know some of you all might love the action but
i thought that most of the action it looked lazy it looked choppy it looked like i can see the
wires of them hanging on it it just looked bad to me again i know the bar is so high up there but
fast forward 20 years later the visual effects are better the choreographers you know the stunt
people are better i just felt like they they dropped the ball when it came to the majority of
the action again i highlighted some of my favorite action moments but some of the action the second
half was like you guys are looking old and i don't want to you know put aging in here but it's like
you're moving a little slower neo and some other characters i just thought the action did not come
anywhere close to the action of the first three matrix film that's just for me as a fan of this
franchise so those are my main cons with the film and there's a lot more but i don't want
to make this into a rant but before i give you over my my overall thoughts and let you know
which pill you should take if you haven't already make sure to like share and comment below overall
this fourth matrix film it shines at best when neo and trinity are the main focus of the story
i i enjoyed the the bugs character she was a nice addition to the to the story i thought that the
blue pill version of neo in the first half and all the commentary that was added in the first
half was a very cool interesting concept but once we get to that second half and even before we get
to second half i do want to applaud the action third act is pretty entertaining it's really
action-packed but that second half was just the worst part of the film the plot at many points of
the second half was just completely convoluted as i mentioned had completely unnecessary exposition
and they tried to recreate the action sequences that were completely game changers that were just
you know they were trying to reimagine that but it just did not work for me in the action department
and i hate to say it but for me i don't think this movie needed to be made so with that being said
i hate to give it this score but this is how i feel about the matrix four of this fourth
film i've given it a 2.5 out of five and then when it comes to which pill you should take
see it if you want to see it but i would suggest you take the blue pill and stay away from this
film but with that being said it is on hbo max so if you do want to see the matrix i recommend you
stay at home and watch it i don't think it's worth going to the theaters to see it i'm just going to
say that it's it's visual stunning at time it is a good looking movie but i don't think it lives up
to the hype i don't think it needed to be made as far as continuing the story i don't want to
see a matrix five even though i know neo said that he would be up for making a fifth one if
there's a good enough story i know that you know hbo max is now here and they can make a series but
i'm i'm wiping my hands clean of this franchise i think it's getting into that territory where
we're looking at the terminator where every other terminator film after the second one and the third
one's okay but after that it just starts to get convoluted it starts to kind of contradict itself
i don't want to i think that's happening with the matrix because i think again three and four
i'm gonna go ahead and rank the matrix for you all for me personally it's one i'm gonna put two
i'm gonna put this fourth one and the third one but three and four to me are just like leave this
franchise alone but hey that's just my thoughts i wanna know yours your pros your cons your thoughts
do you wanna see more is this the end of the franchise let's talk about that and of course
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