When the first Matrix movie came out in 1999 it was a glossy science fiction surprise that promoted rebellion against the status quo.
Not much has changed since then and I still find myself enjoying the story’s insights.
The matrix films definitely require several watches in order to pay attention to all of the details and carefully crafted use of computer and technology lingo amid gorgeously choreographed fight scenes.
Resurrections is rated R for violence and some language and is 148 minutes long.
The film is a fiction action film produced, co-written, and directed by Lana Wachowski.
It is the sequel to The Matrix Revolutions (2003) and the fourth installment in The Matrix film series.
Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, Lambert Wilson, and Jada Pinkett Smith reprise their roles from previous films in the series, being joined by Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Jessica Henwick, Jonathan Groff, Neil Patrick Harris, and Priyanka Chopra Jonas.
Within the Matrix, Thomas Anderson (Reeves) is a successful video game developer, creator of a game series based on dreams from his faint memories of being Neo.
Anderson keeps encountering Tiffany (Moss), a married mother who reminds him of Trinity and this just reinforces Anderson’s struggles to separate his perceived reality from his dreams.
His therapist (Harris) prescribes him blue pills to keep his sanity, but, he soon discontinues the medication.
Anderson runs a private and secret test of his game, which is discovered by the human crew of the Mnemosyne, outside of the Matrix.
Mnemosyne’s captain, Bugs (Henwick), finds the game running Trinity’s old code that discovered Neo within the Matrix, before its agents find her.
Bugs finds an agent behaving strangely and finds out he is a program embodying Morpheus (Abdul-Mateen).
Bugs helps free him before Anderson’s business partner, Smith (Groff), erases the module.
Bugs and her crew discover Neo is still alive, despite his apparent death at the end of the Machine War.
Bugs enters the Matrix to join Morpheus and free Anderson, learning that Smith is really Agent Smith, who monitors Anderson.
Eluding Smith, Bugs, and Morpheus convince Anderson he is living inside the Matrix.
Anderson agrees to be extracted.
Neo wakes up in a pod and sees Trinity likewise confined nearby, but machine entities sent by Bugs retrieve him before he can free her.
Neo is taken to Bugs’ ship where Morpheus reveals Anderson created him and Smith to help Neo become the One.
Neo is taken to the human bastion where he meets an older Niobe (Smith).
Niobe explains sixty years have passed in the real world since the Machine War, and the human survivors have allied with some of the machines to fight an anomaly that jeopardizes the whole Matrix.
Niobe takes Neo to Sati (Jonas), an exile program he previously met.
Sati explains the anomaly was created after the Machine War and had somehow resurrected Neo and Trinity and isolated them.
Sati’s appearance helps work on closing the confusion between Neo’s and Trinity’s resurrections and how the Matrix is functioning in present time – or what he perceives to be present time.
It’s definitely complicated and if you get distracted, you’ll miss key information to the film.
There’s also an after-credits scene to see, but, it’s up to you to decide if you think it leads to another Matrix movie or not.
The Matrix Resurrections is available in theaters and via streaming the HBOMax app.
