So I saw the new Matrix movie and it amazes me that they could spend so much money to achieve so little. It lacks almost all of the edgy tension of the original, has far too long preachy “Basil Exposition” infodumps, and has a pointless shot of Keanu Reeves’ butt double’s arse crack. It steals even more liberally from William Gibson and Neal Stephenson, taking Gibson’s idea of self-aware programs with a survival instinct and a programmatic Singularity from Neuromancer and Stephenson’s idea from Diamond Age of a subterranean city of unaware, fleshy, dancing meat puppets embedded in a huge computing device. It’s a textbook example of how difficult it is to make a sequel to follow a breakout movie where the sum was greater than its parts. Not really having any idea of how that original synergy worked, some people said “Put More Frozen Bullets In It!”, others said “Put More Luurve In It”, while others said “Put More Slow Kung Fu In It” and all you get is an overflavoured, chaotic mess with, very a la mode, Eurotrash baddies and a new lead bad guy wiz zee impenetrabule fraunch axesaunt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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