billdtrav
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Like I do not know where to begin....
It feels like they violated a legendary trilogy just to make some bucks.
I know that marketing algorithms dictate to serve yesterday's food retouched and at a premium price instead of risking at attempting something creative/artistic/genuine or simply new but they should have touched the matrix trilogy... really...
The matrix trilogy is a legendary one from so many aspects that revolutionized the film industry and also went so much beyond that even universities were talking about its concept and philosophizing about it.
This is just wrong!
Everything feels either cheaper or out of canon or halfbaked or all 3.
From the colors to the plot, from the actors to the clothes to the dialogues.
Especially the dialogues! I mean ok the plot was nothing to write home about (pun intended) but you could descern that from miles away since the plot of the trilogy is complete near to perfection and doesnt allow for this low hanging fruit reboot... But the dialogues... That hurt me more than everything else!
The dialogues!!!!
In the first 3 iterations out it felt like (and probably was so since you can read pages upon pages analyzing the dialogues) 10 out of lets say 15 words hard a specific purpose to be said like they were said and there couldnt be a better way they had been spoken, everything had an apparent and sometimes a double/hidden meaning as where in "Matrixy 4" its mostly blah blah blah blah superficial boring stuff to fill up time...
Even the names on the original Matrix had meaning, e.g Morpheus the primal god of dreams the authority to wake you up from them, Cypher originates from Cyphus who was the one (in Greek mythology) that betrayed Morpheus, Trinity as in the christian dogma which combines all three facets of God into one as Trinity in the film is the element that combines all facets of the One and makes him complete which leads to a different Matrix conclusion compared to the previous iterations mentioned in the plot..
In "Matrixy 4" we have names such as Bugs as in Bugs Bunny!!! No kidding, that's actually why they call one of the "Matrixy 4" Characters...
It's like the gave it to millennials and told them take them actors and make them "matrixy".
There was no need for Matrix 4 except for making a fast buck as I said in the title cheapshot and disappointing
Even at the first minutes of the movie the nostalgia cheap shot start to surface in the dialogue in the form of repeating epic quotes from the previous movies...
Why did you have to do this to the Matrix? Just leave it alone... My eyes can not unsee that.
I watched the movie for free but I still couldnt go past a few minutes and I felt that I wanted to be reimbursed for damages.
It feels like they violated a legendary trilogy just to make some bucks.
I know that marketing algorithms dictate to serve yesterday's food retouched and at a premium price instead of risking at attempting something creative/artistic/genuine or simply new but they should have touched the matrix trilogy... really...
The matrix trilogy is a legendary one from so many aspects that revolutionized the film industry and also went so much beyond that even universities were talking about its concept and philosophizing about it.
This is just wrong!
Everything feels either cheaper or out of canon or halfbaked or all 3.
From the colors to the plot, from the actors to the clothes to the dialogues.
Especially the dialogues! I mean ok the plot was nothing to write home about (pun intended) but you could descern that from miles away since the plot of the trilogy is complete near to perfection and doesnt allow for this low hanging fruit reboot... But the dialogues... That hurt me more than everything else!
The dialogues!!!!
In the first 3 iterations out it felt like (and probably was so since you can read pages upon pages analyzing the dialogues) 10 out of lets say 15 words hard a specific purpose to be said like they were said and there couldnt be a better way they had been spoken, everything had an apparent and sometimes a double/hidden meaning as where in "Matrixy 4" its mostly blah blah blah blah superficial boring stuff to fill up time...
Even the names on the original Matrix had meaning, e.g Morpheus the primal god of dreams the authority to wake you up from them, Cypher originates from Cyphus who was the one (in Greek mythology) that betrayed Morpheus, Trinity as in the christian dogma which combines all three facets of God into one as Trinity in the film is the element that combines all facets of the One and makes him complete which leads to a different Matrix conclusion compared to the previous iterations mentioned in the plot..
In "Matrixy 4" we have names such as Bugs as in Bugs Bunny!!! No kidding, that's actually why they call one of the "Matrixy 4" Characters...
It's like the gave it to millennials and told them take them actors and make them "matrixy".
There was no need for Matrix 4 except for making a fast buck as I said in the title cheapshot and disappointing
Even at the first minutes of the movie the nostalgia cheap shot start to surface in the dialogue in the form of repeating epic quotes from the previous movies...
Why did you have to do this to the Matrix? Just leave it alone... My eyes can not unsee that.
I watched the movie for free but I still couldnt go past a few minutes and I felt that I wanted to be reimbursed for damages.
I was really astonished with the innovation and originality this movie brought... It has been years since we last saw an attempt like that, movies tend to become a generic marketing mess to please the corporate overlords with bombarding the same... movie.. in a different package... Osiris Child begs to differ.. and it does it in a very good way! No product placements, no generic plot, no pseudo realism (an other demand of the marketing overlords) it's like a 21st century Star Wars without having anything to do with Start Wars other than the core elements that made those movies great in their genre...
Pure fantasy not filtered out by PC think tanks and survey polls, nice action, imaginative plot and very nice overall scenery, costumes cast and a, very carefully selected, colorful pallet.
The only downside is that they gave in on one of the corporate cravings and squished this great movie into 90 minutes of film.. The plot deserved to be easily a 2 hour one if not a 3 hour one without stressing the audience...
This is the only reason I gave this movie 7/10 instead of 10/10! The what ever minor issues it might have are surely forgiven and ignored for this movie is a rare gem appearing after so many years of stagnation and Hollywood should get a lesson or two by Shane Abbess' action science-fictional masterpiece!
EDIT: I lowered my rating to 6/10 because I was about 20 minutes before the movie finish while writing this review... Nothing changed dramatically its only what I mentioned in my last paragraph this movie should have more time for the plot to "stretch its legs" develop the characters a little more and for us the audience to get into this new world deeper than we did.
Unfortunately, I presume in order to put an end within 90 minutes, they wrapped the last scenes in haste and put some clichés in mix too and "that's all she wrote"... Still one of the best Sci-Fi movies I watched the last couple of years if not even more.. If it only could last longer...
Pure fantasy not filtered out by PC think tanks and survey polls, nice action, imaginative plot and very nice overall scenery, costumes cast and a, very carefully selected, colorful pallet.
The only downside is that they gave in on one of the corporate cravings and squished this great movie into 90 minutes of film.. The plot deserved to be easily a 2 hour one if not a 3 hour one without stressing the audience...
This is the only reason I gave this movie 7/10 instead of 10/10! The what ever minor issues it might have are surely forgiven and ignored for this movie is a rare gem appearing after so many years of stagnation and Hollywood should get a lesson or two by Shane Abbess' action science-fictional masterpiece!
EDIT: I lowered my rating to 6/10 because I was about 20 minutes before the movie finish while writing this review... Nothing changed dramatically its only what I mentioned in my last paragraph this movie should have more time for the plot to "stretch its legs" develop the characters a little more and for us the audience to get into this new world deeper than we did.
Unfortunately, I presume in order to put an end within 90 minutes, they wrapped the last scenes in haste and put some clichés in mix too and "that's all she wrote"... Still one of the best Sci-Fi movies I watched the last couple of years if not even more.. If it only could last longer...