The Reel Rejects - THE MATRIX REVOLUTIONS (2003) IS A JAM-PACKED WAR EPIC!! MOVIE REVIEW!!

Episode Date: November 16, 2025

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More on them in just a bit. Let's reach the Matrix. All right. All right. Ladies and gentlemen, we have just finished the Matrix Revolutions. And yeah, I think we're going to get straight into the questions. Before we do, I want to thank the people over and prep of cutting down these highlights. And we want to let you know that if you're listening on Apple or Spotify, please give us five stars. Make sure you like the channel, subscribe. Terry, what else we're going to do? Ring the bell, ring the bell. So you can get it notified anytime a new video is coming out. All right. Let's do it. Without further ado, Tara, we should start us off.

Resident Z. Hello, hello. Now that you guys have seen the original trilogy, how will you remember The Matrix? Will it be for its action or will it be for its philosophical questions? It poses. The Matrix did influence a lot of movies and even games with its slow motion technique. I will say I would have gone with action if I was asked right after the third.

third movie but after years of only rewatching the first movie and having as part of school classes philosophy would be my answer now hmm yeah uh i think both i can definitely see a lot of cultural influence that this movie had over film over the next what 25 years after this came out and as far as the philosophical stuff goes about choice and you know what we fight for and autonomy. I feel like all those things are still there. And granted, you guys, this is my first time watching all this. It's our first time watching this stuff.

So not all of those themes you're going to be hitting immediately, all those thoughts and all the rewatches you guys have had over the years and all the love. So I'm not going to pick up on all of those things on our first time watching, but I definitely am interested. And now that I finally seen these movies, at least the original trilogy at the time of recording, I can go back and A, rewatch them and B, start watching some video essays and breakdowns and all the philosophical stuff that this movie has become known for. But yeah, definitely the action has going to be something that sticks with me, especially the action from the first movie, you know, a couple of sequences from the second movie. There's final fight in certain segments of it with Mr. Smith and Neo.

All that stuff was really great. So, yeah, I think the combination of the two. is what I'll remember it for, but the action and how it influence people and how it influences filmmakers and films going forward, not only Zach Snyder, which I said multiple times in the reaction, but just other filmmakers as well

over obviously the course of the past quarter century. But yeah, that's the immediate thing that's sticking with me as we get out of this thing. What about you do you do? Yeah, my assumption is like you're saying part of school classes, and it's probably action, but you're saying a lot of the philosophy. So even in like

this this movie we talked about oh a lot of them were choosing the blue pill like we were still going back to the original idea of like there are people that are in the matrix and other people who are making the choice to actually like not be there

they're like no I'd rather go like let me live in the computer and I think that just makes it where also when we see the squids come out you know it's a lot of like AI is hitting us now I don't know when you are like with school with the first matrix that's a long time ago we're not fully in the depths of AI like we are now which is why I think this relates more to us currently like

philosophy wise is like AI could be coming for us in this way we're not sure because it is unlimited intelligence in a way and once it can learn to like form itself maybe become a class of its own we may see something like this but um I do like that ideally we basically saw neo choose love over like the the in the in the last one right he chooses trinity over um the matrix and and then you know here he's taken away and it's almost like he becomes one with this entity uh which is is pretty wild um but yeah i mean i would say that yeah the philosophy is going to stick because it's very much of like, oh, are we all living in like a matrix and being controlled? Is there no such thing as fate? Who the freak knows? I don't know. But let's get to the

next question. Jackson Ryan, this movie is incredibly divisive among the fandom, but it was never with me. Years of observing people in this franchise. There's the audience who are invested in the storyline who have the audience invested in the visual. The visual stimulation audience falls off with this film. But I thought it concluded a story that begins with focus. on the one and ultimately realizing the one are a part of a collective, which the collective becomes the one. This franchise to me has always been about humans maintaining their humanity in a world completely taken over by tech and fighting for it at all costs. With the world we live in today, technology has come so far since 1998. Do you think we are losing our humanity

to tech? Thank you for the insight there. It's, yeah, it's definitely something that we are talking about a lot today and it's funny we just watched uh or least you know coy john like coy gregg myself and roxy just watched a movie like uh like tron aries which you know the tron franchise deals with computers in relationship to humans and personifying computers and how this kind of connects with uh artificial intelligence and you know this as well obviously major part of that in choice um that's a a great question. Do I feel like we're losing our humanity to tech? I feel as though it is becoming more integrated in our society, especially us becoming more reliant upon tech,

things like, you know, chat GPT, things like our phone and social media and how algorithms have hacked our attention for their, that's their currency, you know, especially the different platforms. These algorithms are configured to both give us information, capture our attention, in some ways kind of isolate us and cause greater senses of division because we are being fed within an echo chamber of things that suit our biases, which cause, in a sense, separate realities for what truth is, what reality is. so i don't know if it's it's we're losing our humanity what makes us people but i do think it is um causing division in the in what gives us a sense of of unity what gives us a sense

of of empathy i feel like it's the the overexposure to tech is both used as a tool to connect certain groups of people, but it's also causing a, not deficiency, but a decrease in overall empathy and being able to see perspectives beyond the immediacy of what we know to be our truth. So I feel like it's dampening our ability to connect, but I feel like in that there is still a sense of humanity that is still to be achieved. So if this kind of of continues and these circles of connection become more and more niche and more and more divisive. I think eventually, not in the immediate future, but eventually it could cause us to lose our humanity, especially if we're just resorting to things like chat GPT and we're seeing

the rise and more and more people going into, what is it, like AI psychosis and whatnot. So I don't know, it's a very thick boy of a question. I've been talking way too long. Tara, how do you feel? I think we are losing humanity to tech. So if you look at most people now, you're on your phone, you're on your computer. So what there's a lack of, especially since COVID, but not that, you know, tech didn't exist before that, is that everyone became very isolated. So there's less of a community, less of a village, and less of a connection with other people. Where do people find connection through Instagram, through Twitter, through Facebook, through tech, through chat GPT. Chat TBT is people's therapist, their doctor, their best friend.

So, yes, humanity is being lost there because people are not, they've forgotten how to actually gather and form like a community in talking one-on-one and the connection because they're actually connecting with tech. And that can be dangerous. It really depends on who you surround yourself with. If you are getting out there and you're kind of practicing the art of gathering being around other people, that's actually going to. help you but for now just realize that unless you actually make an effort to do that it's not

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to get $50 in lineup after you play your first $5 lineup prize fix. It's good to be right. And Randy Cruz, there's never been a greater letdown to an amazing film as three sequels are to this. If there's a bigger drop-off in sequels to an original film than this, I'm all ears.

That's a good question. I feel like there's definitely franchises that sort of fell off pretty hard. struggling to think of examples of the end of this. Okay, so if you've watched me and Rossi go through all the Halloween movies, if you haven't, go and watch those, Randy Cruz. I feel like you've maybe sent us questions.

You can see there's some big drops in there, and there's multiple movies. So I'll just name that one for now. There's quite a few that we were, there's like at least two to three that we were like, this is absolute shite. that we thought was terrible. And I don't think this was as great of a letdown that other people might think.

Yes, there's a lot less action, a lot less of what we were exposed to in the first and the second. They decided to take like a hard left and really focus on like the war of it all. But I wasn't like too bothered by it, but it's definitely not my favorite one. I'd put it at the bottom.

I'm talking about this one. Yeah. Yeah. I think this is probably my least favorite of the three as well. For sure. uh yeah i just felt like there was a lot of there was just a lot of visual noise happening and when the war was going down like i i think i carried on like a surface level but i was like it's just a lot of it's just dark and a lot of

people fighting and i didn't really get to know any of these people that well but you know we're here watching them i want to watch neo do his thing and you know the the end of the movie was probably my favorite part of it honestly and even that favorite part was just like kind of dark and and muddled and we like granted there was the philosophical stuff and I feel like I need some more time outside of the immediacy of this moment to chew on some of those philosophical concepts uh because obviously we're we're reacting and like it's all being thrown a thrown a second to first time but yeah I feel like this one probably it did it each one uh decrease my sense of enjoying them but the first one's still amazing in my opinion I love that one I feel like it's this perfect marriage of these philosophical concepts in our relationship with tech coupled with this guy's arc into becoming his ultimate self and who he perceives himself to be living up to that that mantle and fulfilling his sense of purpose

so I really I really dig that I think that one ironically had the greatest sense of choice and display of humanity yeah and I think that answers the question for Pierre the reject because you're asking what Matrix movie do like best I think we'd both go with one in regards to, like, what he said. Let's read Kev B, though. The truth, the movie leaves with us. Do you see it as a real piece or more like two sides of grain to keep the noise down

on secretly planning the next round? Interesting. Well, considering there's a fourth one, I'm going to say the latter. Yeah, yeah, right? Like, probably secretly planning until the next round. That weird face didn't give me much promise of, like, that they are really going to, like, relax but they do have the one with them now and if he is as strong as we think he could

keep them at peace for minute i don't know what's going to happen to him to make him like wake up and he doesn't become part of it yeah they were they were dragging him off and then who just saw like the light in what neo's vision was so that felt a little ambiguous to me grand my first time watching it also sorry for like i don't know misinterpreting like the the science stuff in the beginning i yeah um a lot of information being thrown again first time watching but um yeah uh i guess j rushen has a question what's her nickname or call sign oh we got to do the clap thing right yeah j rush dan what's your nickname or call sign while in the matrix that's good that's tough um i'll just go with t bird people call me t bird for t t t bs yeah yes like i would

yeah like i'm gonna say Doug oh i love this he just went with another man's name yeah awesome my question to you is um oh this is based off this is disliked as one of the sequels to this trilogy but he thinks it's excellent and i guess he's he's wondering what our idea is like i don't like this this sequel this third one i'm not i'd love it this third movie one and two love it did I really need the Yeah I didn't love to I liked it but this one was my least favorite So I don't think it's like

I'll say it like I said it before Watch the Halloween movies with us They're way worse than what this gave us So in regards to sequels and trilogies and all that Well the thing is I Obviously the cultural Asmosis you hear that people Don't like certain films but I don't know

Part of this moment prior to I was watching I never understood why and I wasn't coming in with my arms crossed because there's been movies that I've really enjoyed that I guess critics don't enjoy or you know some people don't enjoy but I find elements that I connect to or resonate with but I think when it came to this movie in particular and grant sorry awesome Joe I know you say you wait was an awesome awesome Joe right yeah yeah sorry I know you really dig this one um but yeah just it was like a lot of the it it it allowed some of that that heart and that sense of discovery the first one had but also less interesting

visuals because it was just a lot of just like gray and darkness and just squids doing their thing was a lot of shooting at squids and it seemed like the same image over and over even though it wasn't but that's what it felt like to me yeah no for for me as well I was just kind of like watching it I'm like, okay, this stuff's happening. We're losing a war. And, yeah, it wasn't until we got back to the Neo stuff where I found it was more interesting. And then obviously, you know, they have the philosophical stuff kind of woven in there. But, yeah, it wasn't as prominent as it was in those first two movies.

So, yeah, didn't strike a chord with me. But I'm happy that you enjoyed it, man. Yeah. Oh, my God. Okay. So Kevin B is giving us trivia. He says that all the agent Smith were not all CGI, that they got 15. extra suited up and they wore a creepy mask made from Hugo Weaving's head.

That is absolutely wild to me. And also the giant machine God's face is based off Wachowski's nephew. They filmed the nephew making those expressions and then they made that the creepy giant's features, which is wild to me. We barely saw like a face in there, but that's very funny. That's a nice like nod to the nephew. Jay Rushin says trivia, small black cat near the end. is a nod to copying files program named copycat and the small girl is basically MSPaint for making the sunrise at the very end wow oh wow okay I love that cool that's some cool little

that's fun little trivia that we got there oh thanks kev and thanks j rushin for you know the info here and the trivia yeah pull it out of my back pocket sometimes uh yeah i love it cool yeah this was still like entertaining for me too just wasn't my favorite um but still had obviously some really great great stuff in it like if anyone still is like oh the matrix trilogy i'd be like yeah good movies like the first one though favorite and then it kind of goes a little down but not as bad as Halloween yeah yeah go some of those same sentiments the first one really worked for me like on every level probably one of the my new favorites honestly but yeah the second one had some action scenes it kind of went on a little too long for me got a little convoluted at points and the third one

was a war film but because it was just a lot of cgai darkness and i'm someone who loved action like comic book movies are some of my favorite things out there but uh something about this just was not uh necessarily resonating with me on a on a visual level and as far as the philosophical stuff goes and the development of those things, the movies go on. I'm going to need to take some time on my own to really examine some of those things and really allow some of those themes and philosophies and part of the movie. Yes, I'm going to go to therapy and talk about it.

He's going to go to therapy and talk about it. He's going to get deep in it. Okay. And he's going to get deep in the comments maybe too, because I'm sure you guys will leave him. and tell us all your thoughts. They're going to let us know. But, yeah, that'll be up for us today, guys.

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