With The Matrix 4 now officially confirmed, we look at where things went wrong for the sci-fi franchise.
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This article contains spoilers forThe Matrixtrilogy.
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Whats really extraordinary about those movies is how completely they seem to have been forgotten.
I came here to tell you how its going to begin.
If it was just that, it would be on this list.
But its that and everything else.
From here, everything that follows is actually about understanding the machines.
Part 2: The Animatrix
May there be mercy on man and machine for their sins.
A couple of other shorts link directly to the trilogy.
Nevertheless B1-66ER loses the trial and is destroyed.
Her haunting last words before shes incapacitated with a shotgun blast?
When 01s economy and industry begin to outpace the nations of humanity, war is declared.
Shortly after, the desperate survivors attempt to call a truce with the machines.
Part 3A: Reloaded
It was a triumph equalled only by its monumental failure.
The Architect
What actually happens to move the plot forward inThe Matrix Reloaded?
Neo chooses the latter and manifests One-like powers in the real world.
Thats not a full-on plot, thats a first act.
In hindsight, its shocking how little ofReloadedactually matters in the grand scheme of things.
There is also a glut of new characters.
The next character we meet, the Merovingian, employs a whole bunch of these programs as thugs.
Wheres the imagination in that?
The Architect scene is the perfect example of this.
Part 3B: Revolutions
Everything that has a beginning has an end.
The Oracle
The Matrix Revolutionsis long overdue for a re-assessment.
There, I said it.
Thats not to say its a great movie.
In the same vein asReloaded, it comes across as a little flabby in the beginning.
This is another sequence which still stands up over a decade later.
Red pill or blue pill?
Save Trinity or save Zion?
Conclusion
There has finally been confirmation that a fourth Matrix film is in the works.
Frankly, if the Wachowskis feel they have something else to say, then Im all for it.
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