The internet is an extremely dark and evil place, but at least you can use it to rent or buy The Matrix Resurrections.
The belated sequel to one of cinema’s greatest ever sci-fi stories is still blowing minds in cinemas right now, but if you’d rather watch from the comfort of home, it’s also available for a price via digital download. Thanks, machine overlords!!
The Matrix Resurrections
We were extremely excited to see Neo (Keanu Reeves) and Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss) reunite for The Matrix Resurrections, building up a frankly unhealthy level of hype from those first mysterious trailers. And it turns out that Lana Wachowski’s solo Matrix effort didn’t just meet those expectations: it frickin’ exploded them, busting binary expectations for a bewildering and romantic deconstruction of why sequels are even necessary.
Not to spoil things for those of us planning on renting or buying Resurrections, but damn! Yahya Abdul-Mateen II as an even more flamboyant take on Morpheus? Chad Stahelski playing a buff douchebag literally named ‘Chad’? Every scene of Neo and Trinity emotionally reconnecting at the ‘Simulatte’ cafe??? Glorious, and gloriously confusing.
Amelia Berry’s review for Flicks opened with a disclaimer that The Matrix Resurrections was “really good”, before elaborating on what makes the sequel/anti-sequel so experimental.
“Resurrections is acutely aware of the expectations placed upon it as a sequel to a beloved and now twenty year-old franchise. It uses that weight to perform a kind of meta-textual judo throw, becoming a wildly literal commentary on sequels, reboots, and on a deeper level, the way radical politics can be repackaged, commodified, and reduced to another tool of pacification.”
You’ll have to fork out a few dollars to stream Resurrections and figure out for yourself what that analysis means, exactly. It’s a red pill worth taking IMO.
