20 Movies That Weren't Worth The Wait

Ever since the third Matrix film, The Matrix Revolutions, ended on a dissatisfyingly ambiguous note back in 2003, fans hoped that the Wachowskis would eventually return to their rich sci-fi world for a fourth go-around.

And that Lana Wachowski finally did in 2021 with The Matrix Resurrections - a sequel so eager to wink at the audience that it forgot to actually tell a story that served the original trilogy.

Wachowski makes no bones about the fact that she only returned to make the fourth film because Warner Bros. was going to do it without her otherwise, and frankly, once you get over the movie's bewildering meta-narrative elements, there's just not a whole lot interesting going on here.

As game as Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss clearly were to return to the roles of Neo and Trinity, neither the script nor the technical nuts and bolts of the filmmaking can hold a candle to even the weakest film in the original trilogy.

It was depressing to sit down and watch a Matrix film whose action looked genuinely ugly for extended periods and whose vision lacked all the ingenuity of what came before. 

The fact that The Matrix Resurrections bombed hard enough to likely kill all interest in another direct sequel is probably for the best, sadly.