I’ve pinpointed exactly why that is, and it’s not the overly meta nature ofResurrections' story.

Slow-motion shots were special in the originalMatrixtrilogy, but inResurrections, they felt like filler for half-baked action sequences.

Slow-motion shots were special in the originalMatrixtrilogy, but inResurrections, they felt like filler for half-baked action sequences.

Trinity, Neo, and Morpheus of The Matrix Trilogy with code over them

Much like those zombies,Resurrections' action just had no life in it.

Keanu Reeves as Neo speaks to the Architect in front of screens in The Matrix Reloaded

Alan Alda’s Hawkeye sits writing outside a tent in MASH

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