As its title urged, The Matrix Resurrections introduced again many of the key creators and actors of the massively profitable sci-fi collection. Stars Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss reprised their roles as Neo and Trinity and Lana Wachowski directed and co-wrote the movie.
One of the ironies of the movie was that Reeves and Moss’ characters each died within the earlier film, The Matrix Revolutions, whereas the solely key hero who survived, Laurence Fishburne’s Morpheus, did not return in Resurrections. At least not as performed by Fishburne. Instead, Wachowski forged Yahya Abdul-Mateen II as a pc program model of Morpheus designed by Neo to assist awaken him from yet one more synthetic simulation of actuality. For no matter purpose, Fishburne wound up the odd man out from the unique Matrix forged.
While he didn’t seem within the movie, Fishburne did watch it. He instructed Variety that he had seen The Matrix Resurrections, which was launched final December, and he thought “It wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be … and it wasn’t as good as I hoped it would be.”
He added “But I thought Carrie-Anne and Keanu really did their thing.”
Asked whether or not he missed being part of the movie, Fisburne replied, “No, not really.”
I used to be a fan of The Matrix Resurrections, with some {qualifications}. (In my overview, I referred to as it a movie of “bold ideas, cool visuals, and a fair amount of inscrutable character motivations and technobabble dialogue.”) And certainly one of my largest questions on it was its model of Morpheus. I by no means fairly wrapped my mind round why Neo created this different Morpheus — or why he didn’t simply make a program of him truly seemed just like the Morpheus he knew. (I imply, should you’re making a program of a dude, why would you select to make it not appear to be the person you keep in mind?) In common, the film suffered for not having Fishburne’s steely, philosophical presence in it. Abdul-Mateen is an excellent actor, and he did his greatest with the fabric he was given, however Resurrections wasn’t fairly the identical with out the unique Morpheus.
The Matrix Resurrections, together with the unique Matrix trilogy, is streaming on HBO Max. Fishburne’s new film, The School For Good and Evil, is on Netflix.
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