I saw it, and enjoyed it for what it was. I will say that it very much felt like a few "Matrix" projects mashed-up together. I especially feel like the new characters could have stood on their own as a miniseries much better.
Definitely wish the ambiguity of the first act was stretched a bit further though, that was my favorite part.
They could have played that note all the way to the end. They could also have triple down on matrix cliches awesomely to reconstruct it. But they fell is some shitty middle ground.
Man, they could have called it matrix: reconstruction and then done literally that.
Edit: I felt that while watching it. The scene where he enters the mirror and finds Neil Patrick Harris was a really compelling moment. I suspect there was a moment in the writing process where neo blue pills at that point instead. Sigh…
Yeah, rather than the happy ending, kind of wish that Neo lost, was recaptured, and went right back into game designer life, leaving the audience feeling ambiguous about the whole film.
I think showing a blue pill Neo that’s happy would be the knife twist in the audience reaction.
Consciously finding peace in a world of lies is philosophically dope.
This movie doesn't know what to be.