#Matrix trailer full#

Here's everything that we know about the film so far, including details from its first trailer.Īlong with Reeves and Moss, the main cast includes Neil Patrick Harris, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, and Jada Pinkett Smith, who played Niobe in the two Matrix sequels.

#Matrix trailer full#

I hope it’s great.'īut while we won't be seeing the Morpheus we know and love from the original trilogy, the first full trailer for Matrix: Resurrections debuted Thursday morning, featuring a very John Wick-looking Keanu Reeves. ' Maybe that will make me write another play. 'I have not been invited,' Fishburne told New York Magazine. Are the Wachowskis Making a New Matrix Movie?.Is the Robots' Plan in The Matrix Bullshit?.Granted, one who's lasted this long in the unforgiving real world when others - perhaps Laurence Fishburne's Morpheus? - have not. The crucial difference in that little theory, however, is that the Oracle was herself a program of the Matrix while Niobe is merely a human. Here, Niobe's more grizzled appearance almost makes one think that she's taken up the mantle of the Oracle herself. Her past romantic relationship with Morpheus cooled off by the events of the trilogy, as a result of his increasing obsession with the enigmatic Oracle and her prophecies of The One. Niobe in 'Reloaded' and 'Revolutions' added more layers to Morpheus, all while functioning as her own character altogether - no easy feat, as any number of female characters in blockbusters could attest to. This at least gives viewers a sense of timing for when exactly this new sequel is set, with her much more aged and battle-scarred appearance strongly suggesting that decades have passed since these characters last saw one another. Remember Jada Pinkett Smith's Niobe? Well, she's seen some things in the time since she survived the battle for Zion in 'Revolutions,' talking to a now-shaved Neo in the real world and going on about how the noise the Matrix creates in your head is similar to the same kind of noise experienced in the heat of war. 'Resurrections' truly feels like a purposeful response to the nostalgia-infused storytelling drowning current blockbusters - we just received a 'Force Awakens'-style sequel to 'Ghostbusters,' for crying out loud - and if that's the lesson Lana Wachowski intends to teach us with this 'Matrix' sequel, then I'm all the way here for it. but here, that clearly appears to be part of the point. In lesser hands, it could end up being incredibly tedious to walk through all the familiar sights of the original movie. We then flash to New Morpheus training Neo in another dojo, as seen in the first trailer and now expanded on here. Clearly motivated to relearn all the same lessons from the original 'The Matrix,' Neo marches straight off a building to the dismay of several onlookers who obviously think he's out of his mind. Here we're reenacting that moment once more, except this time Neo's got company. He failed miserably, but everyone fails their first jump. Naturally, this required Neo to make an impossible leap from skyscraper to skyscraper to shatter the illusion of the Matrix.

'Free your mind, Neo.' Morpheus tried once before to get Neo to forget everything he thought he knew and recognize the simulated world he's actually been living in. It appears to be exactly the kick in the butt that Neo needs, as he looks around and is jolted by the realization that he 'remembers this.' Same, Neo. As a computer program that stands apart from the Matrix, the sockets and post-apocalyptic hairdos (or lack thereof) the characters normally sport disappear and revert back to their own preferred appearances. This part of the trailer culminates with a shaggy-haired Neo finding himself in the same blank space as he did in the original, when Morpheus walked him through one of the most efficient and thrilling exposition dumps in blockbuster history to explain the dire reality of the Machine-ruled real world. When you have an actor with as much of a booming voice, charisma, and screen presence as Abdul-Mateen II does, you better use a whole lot of him when marketing your movie. 'This is the moment for you to show us what is real,' Not-Morpheus-But-Kind-Of-Morpheus continues to intone in voiceover as we see yet more repurposed imagery from 'The Matrix,' from liquified mirrors to Neo held at gunpoint in the rain to Trinity doing more of her wire-fu badassery.