Jadd J.A.D.D. Jadd
I had no expectations with this movie and what I got is pretty much what I expected. I want to be clear I don't hate this there is a lot of things to like here. Lana Wachowski brings her passion and enthusiasm to return to the world that she and her sister made so many years ago. Keanu Reeves and Carrie Anne-Moss are good in their roles both have arcs and feel more characters than being one-note and bland. Jessica Henwick, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Priyanka Chopra, Neil Patrick Harris and Jonathan Groff are all good and I like the new generation of these characters. The ideas and themes are fascinating about rebooting the Matrix, is it real or not?, of how the technology expanded and how the world of the Matrix grew. It has so much ambition which is a shame because all of that goodwill it had fell and crumbled as the movie went on. The visuals are dazzling and trippy at times. Two action sequences were clear and filmed well.
Those were my positives, now to my negatives, everything I was worried about came forth. Such as it gets so convoluted and pretentious that it becomes more of a dense science book. This is a common thing I’m noticing more from filmmakers like The Wachowskis, M. Night Shyamalan, Christopher Nolan and Quentin Tarantino where they love hearing the sound of they love to the sound of their own voice and they are so self-involved with their own thing that they isolate the audience and when they do let the audience it’s confusing for the story their telling. It gets so over-complicated and it drones on and on that at one point I started to lose patience with the movie and the audience I was with were starting to lose patience with it because there is so much exposition that it boggles any interest in the movie. Long drawn-out conversations that go nowhere. Before I did say Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Jonathan Groff were good and it’s true. They are great actors and they did the best of what they were given but they are playing two iconic characters from heavyweight actors. The other biggest disappointment is that the action sequences are shot terribly. It’s shot in the dark, close up and a lot of cuts aways. And The Matrix is known for its slick and exciting action that in is this it’s underwhelming.
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