Matrix Resurrections breaks the fourth wall in order to give itself a metatextual hand job.
I’m still only halfway through it but have to make another comment: it is using an embarrassingly large amount of footage from the first three and in wholly uncreative ways. It just cuts to scenes from previous movies as they’re being discussed like it’s a clip show.
Oh I’m taking notes.
What pill do I take to forget this movie exists?
It's really uncreative in its filmmaking and is so insecure of itself that it needs to constantly reference how important the originals were. It literally has a "the studio was going to make this with or without us so we might as well have done it" scene.
Also I swear they're using footage from the originals that has the wrong color grading. There's a whole mess about the different masters of the trilogy and idk, something about the footage they use feels way too green with flushed skin tones to me.

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