

His memories from the first movie are video game cut scenes that fans know by heart.Įmmy winner Harris makes his “Matrix” debut as one of the film’s new characters, The Analyst, whose therapy sessions and prescription blue pills keep Anderson’s dream life from spilling over into his reality, and his grip on his sanity firm.

This time he’s an uneasily successful San Francisco video game developer whose greatest creation, a hit simulation video game, is called - you guessed it - The Matrix. As “Resurrections” opens, Neo is living once again as Thomas Anderson. JEN YAMATO: If the answer is “give me all the Neil Patrick Harris,” you’re in luck. Now Lana returns to solo-direct, co-scripting with David Mitchell and Aleksander Hemon a fourquel that peers into the looking glass, all the way around and back upon itself, with the help of faces both familiar (Keanu! Carrie-Anne Moss! Jada Pinkett-Smith!) and new (Jessica Henwick! Yahya Abdul-Mateen II! Jonathan Groff!) in a chapter set 60 years after the events of the third film. confirmed that a Wachowski-led continuation was in the works. 22 in the age of Omicron, in theaters and streaming on HBO Max, “ The Matrix Resurrections” is an enticing work of nostalgia for those whose minds exploded watching Keanu Reeves’ hacker hero fall down the rabbit hole only to wake up in a grimy machine dystopia as Neo, the fated cyberpunk savior of humanity, in the original “The Matrix.” Next came 2003’s well-received “ The Matrix Reloaded” (aka the one with the rave scene) and 2003’s not-so-well-received “ The Matrix Revolutions” (the one with no rave scene - you do the math), pushing the franchise’s worldwide grosses over $1.6 billion. Four films, one “Animatrix,” video games and two decades of enormous cultural influence later, the franchise borne of Lana and Lilly Wachowski’s 1999 sci-fi opus has rebooted its own ending yet again - and its latest entry, featuring the return of Neo, Trinity, big action and even bigger new ideas, is arguably its most grandiose and divisive entry yet. As a wise Oracle once said, “Everything that has a beginning has an end.” Well, maybe she meant everything but the “Matrix” movies.
