Our hapless hero Thomas Anderson is back in the Matrix but he doesn’t know it. He has weird dreams and feels like he's losing his grip on reality. Kind of like watching Keanu Reeves acting, I’m never 100% sure he’s doing a good job, but… woah, is he? Anyhow, Trinity is also back in the Matrix, as Tiffany, and he kind of remembers her, he thinks, maybe. He’s now a famous video game programmer (he developed a mind blowing game called The Matrix)... a job he apparently isn’t into. He's living a shitty life and he can’t quite figure out why he hates it. Day in and day out, he takes those blue pills and sees his therapist. Until one day a woman named Bugs and a program called Morpheus realize they’ve found him, the legendary Neo, hidden under a scrambled RSI (Residual Self Image) and looking like an old man. Now they’ve got to convince him what’s happening, extract him, rescue Trinity and do a lot of punching and kicking in slow motion before a big climax. Did I mention stopping bullets and flying? That too.
Obviously, serious fans of the trilogy might be thrilled with this, it ticks off all the nostalgia boxes. Some people might be a little more critical of some of the rehashed story lines and I get it. I fell somewhere in-between and ultimately I’m ok with it. If they were trying to top the original, they failed. But if they were trying to make a passable copycat story for fans of the series that could make a few bucks, they hit somewhere left of the bullseye. 7 pink goo filled energy pods out of 10.
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