Reviews

If you're a ninetees and zeros sci-fi fan, you're probably having a tough time. In the past decade, Hollywood woke up and started to realise a lot of bad stuff in our society - our very own matrix - needed fixing. Unfortunately, they are not able to produce any decent sci-fi movie anymore.

So women are stronger than men, LGBTQ and classic minority groups get the lead roles and white men need to be ridiculed. To which I say, no problem. As long as the story is convincing and the characters are memorable. The problem is that, imo, they are not.

In this movie, I only (somewhat) cared about Neo, Trinity and Niobi as these characters are already established in the previous movies. I'm sorry to say that I can't reproduce any of the new character names 2h after seeing the movie. A (non?)binary 18 year old person is apparently the captain of a ship, but I just don't believe it for a second. Again, some of the greatest sci-fi captains are female (Janeway) or African American (Sisco), and I loved them. Not this one.

The original Matrix storyline depicts a dystopian future in which humanity is unknowingly trapped inside a simulated reality, the Matrix, which intelligent machines have created to distract humans while using their bodies as an energy source. Morpheus helps Neo to escape this virtual world and - over time - Neo becomes more powerful and eventually is able to defeat the Matrix with the help of Trinity and other memorable characters. Easy to follow, understand and enjoy.

This movie shows that after "minds" were freed from the Matrix, the machine cities went to war over power shortages - but this is only shown in a 1 minute clip without any depth. Humans are allied to some sentient machines, which is understandable as some programs helped Neo in the previous movies, but there is no clip showing how this alliance was actually formed. Apparently, many minds did not choose to be unplugged and are still used as a main power source. Again, why this happened or why people choose to remain is unclear to me. Neo is plugged into the matrix and is again Thomas Anderson, Trinity is Tiffany. Apparently, this was done to give the psychiatrist (can't remember his name) more power to control the Matrix, but to what end? Neo and Trinity need to be "freed" but it's unclear to me why. Mankind established a new city called IO in which machines and freed minds live together in peace and make fruit.. there's no real urgency to start a new war as IO is not directly under siege or threatened by. Machines. Nevertheless, Neo and Trinity need to be freed so... They can love eachother? And Trinity needs to be able to fly instead of Neo because...me too?

For a 45 year old (and yes, male and white) sci-fi fan, these are very confusing times...

Much watch voor alle brabo's en in het bijzonder diegenen die gemigreerd zijn naar de Randstad, lol. Oh ja, spoilers in de titel hahaha. En een leuk opmaatje voor de serie undercover. Tip: kijk eerst de film Ferry en start daarna met een bingewatch undercover. Voor alle randstedelingen: zet de ondertiteling maar aan.