
Wait, what? Table those questions: His terrible boss (Jonathan Groff, deliciously shit-eating) wants a sequel. This clever commentary comes packaged as the life of ol’ grown-up Thomas Anderson (Reeves), famed programmer living off his revolutionary-yet-fleeting videogame, The Matrix. Anderson for those happily horking down blue pills. By returning us to Neo (Keanu Reeves), Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss) and the Matrix within a framework keyed into, amused with and ultimately intrigued by remake/reboot culture, Resurrections is a stimulating and often joyous meta narrative-all stuffed into a conventional enough sci-fi suit and tie to pass as Mr.

But as excitingly fresh and ambitious as The Matrix was in its approach to cyberpunk cinema in 1999, The Matrix Resurrections is just as devoted to its bold and disruptive vision in 2021.

With this track record, even the most devoted Wachowski faithful might be wary of the long-coming sequel The Matrix Resurrections. vault-delving of Space Jam: A New Legacy put pop culture familiarity proudly, unabashedly forward as their sole Funko Poppy purpose. That sentiment is usually there, but the triple-dipping of the latest Spider-Man, the nostalgia whack-a-mole of Ghostbusters: Afterlife or the Warner Bros.

2021 has been a banner year for blockbuster films proudly pointing out that intellectual property is more valuable than filmmaking ability or originality.
