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The Matrix Resurrections

Mr. Anderson Has to Return To A World Of Two Realities To Find Out The Truth.

SPOILER ALERTThe full story below, including the ending.

The Matrix Resurrections.

The film opens with a team of synthients inspecting a modal within The Matrix

Bugs is the captain of the Mnemosyne

she goes in, finds herself in a simulation of Trinity and being found by the Agents

although it isn’t the same person as before, She goes through the motions of fighting off the Agents

while Bugs follows and observes alongside the Mnemosyne’s operator Seq Just as the Agents appear to corner Trinity

she observes that this isn’t what originally happened and Seq know it’s a trap

meanwhile, Bugs is pursued by the Agents, running into an old apartment building

The lead Agent catches up to her, they realize that they are in the apartment of Thomas Anderson, Neo

she tells the Agent

she knows that Neo is alive, despite others believing him to be dead because she remembers

being stuck in a dead-end window washing job

when she witnessed Neo in his true form stepping over the side of a building and not falling and when he looked at her, it unlocked her mind

The Agent also acknowledges that he had seen codes in windows and mirrors, before he realized he was in a simulation and the Agent reveals himself to be Morpheus

she presents the blue, and red pills for him to make his choice, and he takes the red one

They try to escape through various doors only for the Agents to be around every corner after them and the two make their exit by jumping out a window

In the Matrix, Neo is living as Thomas working for the video game company Deus Machina

he turned the original story of The Matrix into a successful video game trilogy based on his memories that he perceived as dreams

His coworker Jude, takes him to the local coffee shop where he sees Trinity

He appears to show interest in her when Jude approaches her to be Neo’s wingman

they learn, that she is now known as Tiffany and is married to a guy named Chad

has two sons, Donnie and Brandon

At work, Neo finds an intruder in his game but they are purged quickly

He is called to meet with his business partner, Smith, a reborn form of his nemesis within The Matrix

he tells Neo that their parent company Warner Bros wants to make a sequel to the Matrix trilogy implying that they are being forced to do this

Neo goes to see his therapist The Analyst

they discuss a previous suicide attempt, which was the moment that the girl saw Neo stepping over the side of the building

The Analyst also gives Neo a prescription of the blue pills

Neo and his teammates meet with their boss, Gwyn de Vere, as they all begin work on their next Matrix story

Neo goes day-by-day feeling a sense of Deja vu with everyone expressing, their interpretations of The Matrix and its themes

Later on, Neo returns to the place where he talks to Trinity

She mentions having seen her sons play the Matrix video games and thought the Trinity character resembled her

The offices of Deus Machina are being evacuated, but Neo receives a message to go to the bathroom

He meets Morpheus there and he offers Neo the red and blue pills

Neo starts to freak out over realizing his dreams were real

but Agents begin to open fire prompting Morpheus to shoot back

A gunfight ensues with Smith picking up a gun and yelling out Mister ANDERSON to Neo

After a tense moment where Smith holds Neo at gunpoint

Neo finds himself back in The Analyst’s office

He continues trying to convince Neo, that nothing he experienced was real

At night, Neo gets drunk and prepares to fly as he once did only to be pulled back by Bugs

and She tells him that Jude, is a sinister program meant to keep an eye, on him, and she convinces Neo to follow her

They go through a door that takes them onto a train with Seq

and they proceed until they encounter Morpheus, along with Bugs’ other crew members, Lexy and Berg

They show Neo images from the game, which are just the memories from his original journey with Morpheus in his original form

bugs tells Neo that 60 years have passed, since the war with the machines

and Neo’s true form that the rest of the world sees is that of an elderly man

Neo takes the red pill and sticks his hand through a mirror, where The Analyst sees him and starts to panic

While he appears to try and pull Neo through to convince him that he’s just having a psychotic break, the crew is attacked by Agents leading to another gunfight that forces them to run

they runs back onto the train, where the passenger bots’ are corrupted into swarm mode to attack Neo and the others

After the crew fights and kills the bots Neo go through a small mirror in order for him to be extracted from The Matrix

He wakes up in a slimy pod-like before and he is pulled out by two machines that the Mnemosyne crew uses

called Cybebe and Octacles, who are loyal to the humans As they fly him away Neo finds Trinity in the other pod

He is flown through the ruins of Zion, before being taken to the crew’s sanctuary, where he is hooked up to The Construct

Morpheus tells Neo that he is going through withdrawals, from what The Matrix has been feeding him

with low odds for survival but Morpheus has confidence in him

Neo is put in a dojo simulation, where Morpheus has them spar against each other with Neo getting knocked down repeatedly until he believes in himself again band uses his power to send him flying out and destroying the dojo

Neo reawakens in the sanctuary

Bugs formally introduces him to the crew along with their doctor Ellster, who is the granddaughter of Neo’s former ally Captain Roland

When Neo asks about Trinity she says they don’t quite know yet, how to extract her

The crew travels with their pilot Hanno, to meet with the now elderly Niobe

She is angry at the crew, for going against her orders in looking for Neo, but she is still pleasantly surprised to see him

After dismissing the crew, she talks to Neo about how he gave her hope for a world without war

She introduces him to their head botanist Freya and digitologist Quillion to show that they have advanced past what Zion used to be

she also informs Neo of the Oracle, telling them of a new power rising

Until they understand what is really going on, she has Neo kept in a tower for the time being

The Mnemosyne crew gets Neo from the tower and they observe Trinity  as she is still Tiffany in The Matrix

In an attempt to free her, the crew re-enters The Matrix and enters a rundown warehouse

There they find Smith who comes with Exiles

that come in snarling at Neo and the crew

including The Merovingian, now reduced to an angry hermit

The crew battles them with Neo utilizing his past fighting skills before engaging in a fight with Smith  in a lower level of the building

he brutally beats Neo, and tells him he won’t be a servant to the higher power any longer

Neo regains his strength and sends him flying across the room

he eventually locates Trinity

She talks about a dream she had of people chasing them with him, and riding with him on her Ducati

It is then revealed, that the mastermind behind the new power in The Matrix is The Analyst

He succeeded The Architect, and used the machines to resurrect Neo and Trinity, after their deaths during the previous war

and He originally only wanted to bring Neo back, but realized that it would only work with Trinity  due to their strong bond

He has created a balance for the two of them to be close but not too close

so, they don’t overpower his system

The Analyst uses a bot to go into swarm mode to fire a bullet at Trinity in slow-motion

as a threat to Neo to return to his pod before The Matrix can be rebooted

which Neo attempts to catch but The Analyst simply removes it, before it hits Trinity

And Neo has to flee along with the crew

they returns to an infuriated Niobe  to prepare for a court martial

Bugs argues with her, that she cares little about their goals to free human minds

A bird-like machine, Kujaku, arrives with a message

Niobe brings Neo to meet Sati

who was originally a little girl exile program and he met in Revolutions

which has been shadowing him in The Matrix, when he was still Thomas

She says that her father designed the resurrection pods  that brought Neo and Trinity back to life

Despite knowing the risks in rescuing Trinity, Niobe agrees to allow the crew to go along with the mission

The crew carries out the mission with Morpheus and Bugs working on Trinity’s pod, while Neo goes back into The Matrix

to find her at the coffee shop

He speaks to The Analyst and saying if Trinity chooses to leave The Matrix he must let her go

otherwise, Neo will willingly return to his pod  and The Analyst agrees

Trinity arrives and talks to Neo

saying that she played his game and recognized the images as her own memories

Her husband and kids arrive  to try and get her out

but Trinity snaps out of it and declares she hates the name Tiffany and is officially Trinity

She and Neo battle the Agents, and overpower them once they bond

The Analyst is met by Smith, who fights him after declaring himself free and he briefly forms an alliance with Neo and Trinity, to allow them to escape

by shooting The Analyst and temporarily incapacitating him

Seq detects trouble in The Matrix, so Neo and Trinity ride through the city on her motorcycle

just like in her dream

The Analyst regains power

starts using bots to divebomb down onto the streets, to take out the heroes

Neo and Trinity make it to a roof, where two choppers fire at them

but he uses his power to deflect a missile  and take out one chopper

she then tells Neo, that she remembers everything about them, and their relationship

The two leap off the building together in an attempt to fly, but only Trinity holds that power and hangs onto Neo as they get away

they are extracted and reunited for good

Neo and Trinity locate The Analyst in his apartment

where Trinity gives him a few good punches for his manipulations

They threaten him if he tries to take control of The Matrix again and they fly away together

to restore balance to The Matrix.

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The Matrix Resurrections (2021)

December 22, 2021 (United States)
5.7/10

United States, Australia · English, French, Spanish, Japanese

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