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Originally Posted by Pogue

Started off promising but lost me after 20-30 minutes realizing this wasn’t a movie to continue the saga.

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I really thought the beginning was promising, looked like we were going to get a look at what the architect was explaining to neo there’s been several versions of him already. I was expecting to see a far more advanced matrix, but not the way the analyst/movie did. So it was odd to see a matrix designed around more feelings and emotion to generate more power from humans considering they threaten the matrix.

The matrix itself is far more interesting than the Zion/To Lo storyline, it’s what killed the third movie. This is where the movie lost me, once it pivoted to reality with Neo escaping his pod by friendly machines, to another Zion like location that was also built by machines. This presents all kinds of issues and plot holes. Machines (Wokies call them synthians) were working with Humans, making strawberries? Assisting in rescues? Dumb. They could be hacked etc threatening everyone in to lo.

Lastly, making trinity the one or similar to neo, destroyed the movie imo and ruined the franchise. Out of nowhere she possesses the same skills as neo? Come on.

To me the movie was a parody of legacy sequels, it was the director mocking moviegoers, telling them to eat this excrement sandwich. Really surprised Keanu signed on to this garbage. 4/10.

Agree with this post 100%. The initial angle they took was original and could have gone to some interesting places but it really is a parody of the earlier movies.