Almost twenty years after the conclusion of the original trilogy, Lana Wachowski decides to return to the Matrix universe with a new opus simply called Matrix Resurrections. The opportunity for her to recall Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss in the emblematic roles of Neo and Trinity. The rest of the cast includes Yahya Abdul-Mateen II (Candyman) as Morpheus, Jonathan Groff (Mindhunter), Jessica Henwick (Iron Fist) and Neil Patrick Harris (How I Meet your Mother). A new uneven opus. Criticism:
Matrix 4: a very successful first part
Lana Wachowski decides to return to the Matrix universe without her sister. Almost twenty years after Matrix Revolutions, released in November 2003, Neo is not yet done with the matrix. But while our two heroes die at the very end of Revolutions, it needed an inventive way for Lana Wachowski to bring back her protagonists. And it must be said that the first part of the film is quite brilliant. The filmmaker finds an ultra meta way to approach her themes and her narrative. A simply sparkling approach to developing while deriving the matrix system and the concept of the Matrix itself with a lot of humor, malice, and criticism. 
Thomas Anderson became a video game programmer. The Matrix film trilogy is, within Matrix Resurrections, a trilogy of video games that changed the world. A hallucinating and truly brilliant diversion; which allows you to play with the senses, memories and emotions of both characters and spectators. Rarely have we seen such a successful, legitimate and well-thought-out meta approach in the entire history of cinema (and I weigh my words). So this first part is a delicious game of cat and mouse. Lana Wachowski plays with our fan memories, with our own experience and analysis of the Matrix monument. Via some flashbacks very well used, in the form of discreet and intense fashes precisely; The director quickly and discreetly creates her backdrop, and her connections with the other three films. She plays with unprecedented strength and intelligence with the meta aspect of her work. And do not hesitate to have fun with the codes and to divert the concept of the metaphysical in Matrix Resurrections. To the point of opposing Morpheus to his double of the past, and directly using the plans of the first trilogy to support his point. A simply brilliant idea, and ultra creative in terms of staging! 
Lana Wachwoski does not hesitate to tackle Warner Bros live. Criticizing the Hollywood system of sequels, reboots and other remakes with a new approach. And as for the first appearance of Morpheus, accompanied by the line "farce or tragedy", it alone sums up the entire current Hollywood system!
A heavy and endless film
Unfortunately, once this first part is over, Lana Wachowski falls into the faults she tries to denounce. The filmmaker replays the classic cards of the Matrix universe. Unsurprisingly, without verve, without real originality, it brings out the usual concepts of the franchise; warms up a saga that was self-sufficient, through a film that tells nothing extra. A bit like the recent S.O.S. Ghosts, Matrix Resurrections is a film that bases its raison d'être on nostalgia for a bygone era. And is finally, a film quite useless, uninteresting and above all endless. 
Lana Wachowski has nothing more to tell than what she had already addressed in the first three films of the franchise. The narrative stretches into a soporific plot that takes up the old theme of war between humans and machines and thought control in the matrix. It thus condenses three films into one to replay the same card as at the time, without any real major improvement. And the saddest thing about all this is that the action sequences are less successful than those of the time. The confrontations and choreographies are clearly less readable than at the time, less inventive, less creative and simply less impressive. Lana Wachoski manages, in 2021, to offer action scenes that suffer from comparison with action sequences that are now 20 years old. And that's clearly the real feat of the film… https://youtu.be/Kva8VPH18gQ After an extremely playful and very intelligent meta first part, Matrix Resurrections drags on in a heated and endless plot. As for the creativity of the action sequences, it is light years away from the inventiveness and effectiveness of the previous parts.
