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Not only that, when you watch a movie. It has a beginning, middle and end. The same goes for scenes and fight sequences. There are key moments in scenes that are pivotal. For example, when neo blocks a punch and holds it. There is a pause. A gasp. The audience connects the dots. The music changes. The pace in that moment slows down. It is a key moment in the story. Well in this movie. It does not happen.
The scenes are not cinematic at all. The cameras constantly changing angles like a TV show. When actors are talking, there is too much dialogue, the camas are close up to the face. The lighting is too dramatic and over saturated with lens glare and and hard shadows. When characters are introduced they suddenly tell their entire pity party life story in the first few seconds. Or they tell a whole backstory to fill big plot gaps. This happens a lot. As a audience watching, this is shit. A similar thing happened with the new Star Wars.
Take the first matrix movie when neo stops bullets. I could feel the hair at the back of my neck rising. Its magical. Or when the helicopter crashes into the building, its a scene in itself. Thats wow. In this movie, its just boom boom lets get on with it. Its not cinematic.
Lets do a comparison. I was watching Star-Trek, The Wrath of Khan just before this. That was good. In that movie you see how a story is told without too much dialogue. Facial expressions, cinematic camera angles, having both actors in the screen talking and not switching to the face multiple times. Wide angles and letting the characters move the story forward. Very simple script. Pauses in moments. In this matrix movie, the special effects move the story forward.
Characters. The Characters are... shit. In a movie, each character has a role to play. Small support characters can really amplify the main characters.
Take the first three Starwars, each character was strong and played a role. Luke, Han solo etc. There are no real strong characters in each role. Or should I put it, no strong male characters. No strong female characters either. Don't get me wrong, I love strong female leads or sub leads in movies if they are done well. Take Aliens, Kill Bill, Terminator 2, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Silence of the Lambs(Jodie Foster) etc. This is not like that. The characters in this Matrix movie were made to be equal. Rather than focusing on the differences and amplifying the differences and making them strong. This is shit. No strong support characters.
There was nothing original or ominous about the bad characters. In the original, Agent Amith wore sunglasses. No eye contact. His voice, how he said the words, the way he moved and his suit created a character that sent shivers. In the new movie, the bad guy looks like someone who made a lot of money in bitcoin, has a poor dress sense and only buys his clothes from H&M.
I have no idea what that story or plot was in this movie. Hell, I could have written a better script with a Chicken Vindaloo theme as the Red Pill and the toilet as a means to escape that Matrix. I mean.. can you imagine Neo or Trinity running around trying to find a washroom? Hell that would have made more sense and been more entertaining.
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