Some die hard fans of the trilogy are claiming Ressuractions so clever and intelligent that ordinary audience won't be able to get it at first. That's why the frustration of the latter led the movie to a free fall rating. Truth be told, it's not the majority of people that are uncapable to understand such a masterpiece, but the fact that it isn't a masterpiece at all. After 20 yrs, Ressuractions is light years behind the 1st one in storyline, relevance and quality, proving that the original idea could live by its own but was so exploited by all different medias in the past that nothing new has left, or maybe the lazyness to expand its universe to a different approach left it in a comfort zone by the writers.
For those ones who did watch Scream (2022} will surely notice some resemblances between both movies. First, the idea of retelling the same story in a different way (the 'requel' thing), a superficial argument to overshadow the fact that, on its core, the movie is a poor and disposable remake of itself. Second, the metalanguage, used to explain by didactic means the reasons why ideas are being recycled. Translating, It's like an apology in advance if audience faces the fact that all of it sounds familiar and much like the same.
That's why new Mr. Anderson is now a game programmer who created a virtual reality called The Matrix; that's why the original trilogy is now presented as a trilogy of games used tirelessly as flashbacks and deja vus; that's why "Warner wants a sequel after 20 years", as one of the chacters say. The meta justifying the requel.
My problem with this movie is that Lana Wachowski seems completely lost as a director and as a writer. It's never clear what's the point of it all. And to fill gaps that would be hard to be filled, she uses aforementioned arguments to stretch the story to the unbearable.
120 minutes of a pretentious movie that never equals the original, nor the inferiority of the sequels. Full of boring undeveloped one dimensional characters facing redundant events. Most of the times with terrible dialogs that pretend to be funny but never is, like when Morpheus makes his 'homage' to Fishburne's classic appearance, or moments when the movie tries hard to rescue some old references once more raising irrelevant discussions about human existence.
Another one said that Ressuractions looks like a bad Scary Movie of itself. Comprehensive. I mean, why would someone mock or make a parody of their very own praised work as Lana does all the time here? Fells like she's taking the legacy she created with her sister Lily as a curse, and to make new movie interesting, previous ones must be trashed somehow.
The pace is terrible and action sequences are misplaced all the time. The original was interesting because it was a cyberpunk action movie, with great doses of sci-fi, gaming culture references, dark humor, jaw dropping fighting scenes and one of the greatest unpredictable romance tales ever made leading entire story to another level, a combo that made it a true reference to the pop culture, so strong that it's impossible to be replaced. But now it's just a movie based on main characters' personal dramas full of empty quotes with the same love theme that's there only to justify once more why they are bonded to each other, messing with entire experience of the original. It's so boring to a point that 180 minutes of Cloud Atlas feels like a joy.
They mock the success of bullet time effect, as if at any moment audience would be pleased with an amazing new experience. Instead, they use one of the worst camera effects ever made to dissociate time and space. The make up is also horrendous, and all the mythology created is entirely wasted.
The acting is good, but never elevates the lack of arguments for one of the worst sequels I've ever watched. It's not even a movie that I could ignore its flaws and have some fun watching. If that makes pinnacle fans satisfied, it's pretty much obvious that ordinary audience does not feel the same because a movie does not survive only by easter eggs and hidden trophies. That does not make any movie remarkable, just annoying.
For those ones who did watch Scream (2022} will surely notice some resemblances between both movies. First, the idea of retelling the same story in a different way (the 'requel' thing), a superficial argument to overshadow the fact that, on its core, the movie is a poor and disposable remake of itself. Second, the metalanguage, used to explain by didactic means the reasons why ideas are being recycled. Translating, It's like an apology in advance if audience faces the fact that all of it sounds familiar and much like the same.
That's why new Mr. Anderson is now a game programmer who created a virtual reality called The Matrix; that's why the original trilogy is now presented as a trilogy of games used tirelessly as flashbacks and deja vus; that's why "Warner wants a sequel after 20 years", as one of the chacters say. The meta justifying the requel.
My problem with this movie is that Lana Wachowski seems completely lost as a director and as a writer. It's never clear what's the point of it all. And to fill gaps that would be hard to be filled, she uses aforementioned arguments to stretch the story to the unbearable.
120 minutes of a pretentious movie that never equals the original, nor the inferiority of the sequels. Full of boring undeveloped one dimensional characters facing redundant events. Most of the times with terrible dialogs that pretend to be funny but never is, like when Morpheus makes his 'homage' to Fishburne's classic appearance, or moments when the movie tries hard to rescue some old references once more raising irrelevant discussions about human existence.
Another one said that Ressuractions looks like a bad Scary Movie of itself. Comprehensive. I mean, why would someone mock or make a parody of their very own praised work as Lana does all the time here? Fells like she's taking the legacy she created with her sister Lily as a curse, and to make new movie interesting, previous ones must be trashed somehow.
The pace is terrible and action sequences are misplaced all the time. The original was interesting because it was a cyberpunk action movie, with great doses of sci-fi, gaming culture references, dark humor, jaw dropping fighting scenes and one of the greatest unpredictable romance tales ever made leading entire story to another level, a combo that made it a true reference to the pop culture, so strong that it's impossible to be replaced. But now it's just a movie based on main characters' personal dramas full of empty quotes with the same love theme that's there only to justify once more why they are bonded to each other, messing with entire experience of the original. It's so boring to a point that 180 minutes of Cloud Atlas feels like a joy.
They mock the success of bullet time effect, as if at any moment audience would be pleased with an amazing new experience. Instead, they use one of the worst camera effects ever made to dissociate time and space. The make up is also horrendous, and all the mythology created is entirely wasted.
The acting is good, but never elevates the lack of arguments for one of the worst sequels I've ever watched. It's not even a movie that I could ignore its flaws and have some fun watching. If that makes pinnacle fans satisfied, it's pretty much obvious that ordinary audience does not feel the same because a movie does not survive only by easter eggs and hidden trophies. That does not make any movie remarkable, just annoying.