Lots to chew on here. I shamefully have to join the "the second half doesn't work as much as the first" bandwagon. It's not so much the specific mood shift or individual story choices per se, its more that it's somewhat unfocused, and reveals the movie to be more of a bundle of anxieties and pain stuffed into an "american epic/saga" than it is a complete thesis. That said, that first half is really tremendous, and the filmmaking throughout is…
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The Matrix Resurrections 2021
Reviewing this one without a star rating for now, may go back later and figure that shit out. There’s so much here that I totally love, the kind of wacky, free and flexible sci-fi storytelling that can pick up and drop ideas with abandon. There’s a not insignificant portion of this movie that felt like living in a cyberpunk short story collection from the genre’s greatest.
Then there’s also a lot of Lana earnestly reckoning with her legacy and the…
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