I recently watched Matrix Resurrections for the first time. It was a different experience from watching the original Matrix trilogy. The first thing that I noticed is that there was a lot of almost word for word replay of the action and dialog from, mostly, the first movie of the trilogy. An awful lot of deja vu, and I mean that literaly and to the point where they used the literal deja vu from the first movie in this one. I guess that when you make a movie in a franchise, there is not a lot of room for originality.

The direction was by one of the Wachowskis. So the movie was very much in the same sort of atmosphere as the first three and the action was much the same. Some of what was interesting is that they actually spoofed the first set of movies or maybe a better analogy would be that they shadowed the first movies. There were new elements though. The ship was a new ship that had been constructed from an old ship with the help of some of the machines, since the machines and humans were now at peace. The blue pill keeps popping up and is used in a unique way. There is the red pill, but unfortunately for the Bitcoiners amongst us, no orange pill. And, of course, some of the characters return.

The returning characters are Thomas Anderson/Neo, Tiffany/Trinity, a different actor for Morpheous, Niobe and I notoced one of the agents is a repeat. The story for the characters revolves around the return of Neo and Trinity and how they get together with the assistance of the new city of Io and some of the sentient programs. The city is different and Niobe plays a different role in the movie because it is taking place sixty years after Neo and Trinity die in Revolutions. Since I will not give you a spoiler, I will just say that they are resurrected. The new baddie is the Analysist, played by Neil Patrick Harris with an assist by the not-quite-so-bad new Agent Smith, ably played by Jonathan Groff. I think, but am not absolutely sure that they used soome voice cuts by Hugo Weaving and Larry Fishburne to make the transition form the original actors to the new ones. There are also a plethora of new faces that did a good job.

Overall, I think the movie passed as a good movie, one which I would watch again, maybe once or twice. It is a continuation of the previous movies and I was very curious to see how they would resurrect Neo and Trinity. Of course, they had to resurrect them to make the movie go and to earn money from it by cashing in on their popularity from twenty years ago. I saw the movies then and had to see this one now. You do have to suspend disbelief to get into this one, but Lana Wachowski, the director, managed to get the disbelief suspended well enough for the movie. Wachowski also had a hand in writing it, so the same style and flourishes managed to show through the co-writer's work.

I would recommend the movie, but not as a stand-alone movie. You would have to have watched Matrix, Matrix Reloaded and Matrix Revolutions before you could understand this movie and the easter eggs that are in the film. Since this was the first time I have seen it, I didn't catch very many of the little subtle pointers and clues that were planted in the trilogy. This is one of the reasons that I would be willing to watch it again. The other reason is to catch some more of the parts that were lifted directly from the trilogy movies. I know more of them are there, I just didn't catch them. So, it is worth a re-watch or two to catch at least those.