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The Matrix Resurrections.
I'm a fan of the Matrix movies, I like the first three even reloaded and revolutions. when those films came out I was all about them. I was insanely into the lore, bought all the extra media be it the games, the animatrx, the encyclopedia, everything. I even drank the damn powerade and had the phone.
Resurrections is a movie that didn't need to happen and doesn't change anything in the overall universe of the matrix.
Spoilers ahead.
The Machines and humans are finally co-exisiting. great, fantastic. Now because the machines are allowing whomever wants to be unplugged from the matrix willy nilly they need a new backup power source. that being Neo and Trinity. Ends up that recloning them and keeping them in pods next to each other but actually preventing them from being together generates a metric shit ton of power for the machines. One human discovers this and is all "that ain't right, we need Neo" and decides to free him. Why do they need Neo now in this time of peace? because he's the One. that's it. One can argue that the machines pull some douche nozzle style moves like making the old construct of Morpheus into an Agent but whatever. The Machines aren't nuking the new human city, they're letting people be unplugged, it's all fine. Except ONE group says it's not fine and even the leader of the Humans is all just leave it but they're like no, can't leave it. They get Neo out and now Neo is like "I need Trinity" ok cool lets go get her. But won't that fuck up the machines power source I hear you ask? yes and....no apparently it won't.
They go get Trinity, she's now out, the machines try to stop them but other machines help them get both Neo and Trinity back to the real world annnnnnnd nothing changes. Everything was exactly how it was prior to the movie starting. That power source the machines needed? meh it's fine they'll do without. Will they attack the new humans home? nope. Will more people be freed? maybe but likely that will also stay the same. Neo and Trinity both say now THEY control the matrix buuuuuut the one machine AI that started this whole thing is left alone, nothing happens to them. not deleted, not repurposed, nothing. Absolutely nothing changes. not for the worse, not for the better, just TWO people are back together. that's it.
plot wise the movie didn't need to happen. It also throws out the entire purpose of the One that previous three films established out the window because I guess now the Machines no longer need to reboot the program every 100 years.
the movie didn't need to happen but because execs were going to force it to happen anyhow, the Wachowski sister gave us a barely veiled satire of the franchise and of sequels
If I remember right that's almost word for word from the script of the movie itself (but talking about the game Neo was coding)
I'm impressed. My understanding of the plot of that movie after watching it was dramatically poorer than your excellent summary here.
Lol, that's exactly the point of the movie. The wachowskis decided to make it about why franchises need to die. It's all a big parody of itself because they are attacking Hollywood's film industry.
This reminded me of the scene in the OG where Neo gets the phone delivered. It shows him start to open the package but then the next shot shows him start to open it again. Always annoyed me.