The Matrix Resurrections: Try Not To Die Every Day of Your Life

The Matrix Resurrections was spectacular… beautiful even! While settling down in Tallinn, Estonia, I was able to give it a watch and have my mind blown… well, re-blown at least. So, here are a few wild thoughts after returning to the movie franchise I skipped school to see in 1999.

Spoilers incoming, but if you’re deciding if you should go see it, there is no choice at all.

1. Don’t stop taking your brain meds and jumping off buildings cause you think you’re The One™
2. After 60 years, not much has changed for humanity in the day-to-day, apart from some of their friends are sentiment machines now.
3. Watching Jada Pinkett act like an elderly woman, despite being a woman who has mastered appearing youthful in all things, felt like watching someone act old. I don’t typically notice acting, so it’s jarring to do so. Her portrayal as Niobe was basically watching Willow Smith playing Niobe on Red Table Talk.
4. Less Morpheus or more Morpheus? I’m not certain. I liked Yahya Abdul-Mateen II’s acting. It’s almost like what Neo’s idea of Morpheus is like; all Black and cool. But completely flat with the whole revolutionary mindset starts sex raves in Zion and has quiet moments with ex lovers. Neo clearly gets the theatrical gravity we saw Lawerence…