The film is painfully aware it's not the sequel people wanted, but goes to some lengths to frame this as by design.
I didn't mind the ersatz Morpheus so much, but the antagonist didn't really work for me at all. They really needed someone with Hugo Weaving's weight in that role. Instead we got some valley chad.
It falls short of the innovative high of the original films, but Wachowski knows this isn't repeatable - that's a cornerstone of the film. But I didn't understand the third act at all. It wasn't comprehensible to me. For all that I quite enjoyed it.
So, Matrix Resurrection. It's not half as bad as some have made out, not even close, but it reminds me a lot of Trainspotting 2. It's a sequel nobody needed, and is caged in every dimension by the past, so they make a little meta joke out of it. The whole time. Is it necessary? Is any art necessary? I honestly don't know.
...They wheel it into the garage (where more than 4 crew are permitted to work on it) and it's fixed in under two minutes. Endurance racing mechanics, and the engineers that design the kit parts are amazing.
The intro to Michael Clayton, with Tom Wilkinson's monologue, is the start of a brilliant and underrated film. Beautifully shot and realised.
My absolute favourite pun from Hotshots: Part Deux
https://youtu.be/fqAPvh5AsKE
Rick Beato on autotune, it's fantastic.
https://youtu.be/NNXg5dIVC1M
WEC doing diversity before it was fashionable. Teenagers racing alongside boomers. Two all-women teams, and two paraplegic drivers. All having fun roaring along in the dark.
Kasprowy Wierch summit, basically in a snow cloud, although it wasn't as cold as you might think.
The cable car up to Kasprowy Wierch. It was not so cold on this occasion; the following year it was brutal (-20C/-4F) and going out was not so enjoyable.
FOSS, motorbikes, and photography.