Film Review: Matrix Resurrection

by Toby Barrett

To find out if his reality is a physical or mental construct, Mr. Anderson, aka Neo, will have to choose to follow the white rabbit once more. If he's learned anything, it's that choice, while an illusion, is still the only way out of -- or into -- the Matrix. Neo already knows what he has to do, but what he doesn't yet know is that the Matrix is stronger, more secure and far more dangerous than ever before.

The Matrix: Resurrections is the fourth part in the series and sees Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss reprise their epic roles as Neo and Trinity. The film is set many years after the events of The Matrix: Revolutions and is made well, for the most part bringing back tons of nostalgia, including some of the great music used in the earlier movies.

Previously on The Matrix…

In The Matrix: Revolutions, the machines terminated Neo to destroy Smith. When this happened, a program called The Analyst observed that Neo was an anomaly like none other and that Neo’s choices were based on his love for Trinity, a companion that the earlier anomalies did not have. So he resuscitates both of them.

Meanwhile, the machines kept their promise, offered peace, and left Zion alone; they also freed others who wanted out of The Matrix. In time, there was a power shortage, and the machines went to war with each other.

Who is the Analyst?

The Analyst figured out that Neo and Trinity were individually not worth much, but when combined, the kind of electricity they produced surpassed the average human’s output by many folds as long as two were kept close enough and desire and fear ran their lives. The Analyst also identifies that subconsciously, this is the state where most human minds stop rebelling the programming. His theory – the worse the humans are treated, the more they are manipulated, the more energy they produce. Hence, The Analyst could generate more power from all human minds by keeping them in the same state of desire and fear.