Keanu Reeves Was Blown Away By The Finished Cut of THE MATRIX: RESURRECTIONS

A lot of fans were blown away by the first trailer that was released for The Matrix: Resurrections. There was a lot of cool stuff packed into that trailer and I can’t wait to see how exactly this story of Neo and Trinity is going to continue.

Director Lana Wachowski recently opened up about Keanu Reeves’ reaction to the finished cut of the film, saying he was blown away by it. Reeves also offered some “insightful” thoughts on the film. Wachowski said:

We showed the film to Keanu, and he really was blown away by it, and he said something that was typically Keanu, where it's incredibly insightful. And he's just sort of sitting there, and you don't expect some incredible revelation to come out of him at that moment, like casual brilliance just kind of rolls off of Keanu. And he was just sitting there, and he goes, 'Twenty years ago you told a story in which you described the coming twenty years and the problems of the nature of digital, virtual life and how it was going to impact us and how we think about it, and gave us a frame to be able to think about it and talk about it. And you took the same character and the same stories and the same stuff, and somehow you made it about the next twenty years.' And he was like, 'How did you do that?'

Ya gotta love Reeves as he certainly has a way with words. I was already excited about seeing this fourth Matrix movie, but these comments get me even more excited about what this creative team is going to deliver.

The Matrix Resurrections is “a continuation of the story established in the first MATRIX film. It reunites Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss as cinematic icons Neo and Trinity in an expansion of their story that ventures back into the Matrix and even deeper down the rabbit hole. A mind-bending new adventure with action and epic scale, it’s set in a familiar yet even more provocative world where reality is more subjective than ever and all that’s required to see the truth is to free your mind.”

The movie also stars Carrie Ann-Moss as Trinity, Jada Pinkett-Smith as Niobe, Daniel Bernhardt as Agent Johnson, and Lambert Wilson as The Merovingian. Some of the other franchise newcomers include Yahya Abdul-Mateen II as a young Morpheus, Jessica Henwick, Neil Patrick Harris, Priyanka Chopra, Christina Ricci, and Jonathan Groff.

The movie is set to be released on December 22, 2021.