This movie very much disappointed me. I did my best to keep it brief, so here it goes:
First, the plot lacks originality and relies way too heavily on the past movies. They reused way too many lines and sequences from the first three movies, and I lost count of how many flashbacks were used as well.
What else? Morpheus shouldn't have been re-casted. Niobe looks awful (apparently they were trying to make her look 60 years older). For some reason they brought back Smith (with a new human form), despite the fact that the Architect deleted Smith at the end of the last movie. And people are actually wearing COVID masks during one of the scenes. Seriously? Did COVID strike the Matrix, too?
But worst of all, the movie fails to provide a true, emerging conflict. As humans and machines have finally learned to live together peacefully, there was no conflict until Neo was unplugged from the Matrix, so Neo was really unplugged for no reason. Why unplug him if peace has finally been achieved?
First, the plot lacks originality and relies way too heavily on the past movies. They reused way too many lines and sequences from the first three movies, and I lost count of how many flashbacks were used as well.
What else? Morpheus shouldn't have been re-casted. Niobe looks awful (apparently they were trying to make her look 60 years older). For some reason they brought back Smith (with a new human form), despite the fact that the Architect deleted Smith at the end of the last movie. And people are actually wearing COVID masks during one of the scenes. Seriously? Did COVID strike the Matrix, too?
But worst of all, the movie fails to provide a true, emerging conflict. As humans and machines have finally learned to live together peacefully, there was no conflict until Neo was unplugged from the Matrix, so Neo was really unplugged for no reason. Why unplug him if peace has finally been achieved?