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News Laurence Fishburne Was Turned Down for 'The Matrix Resurrections'

https://www.indiewire.com/news/general-news/laurence-fishburne-matrix-resurrections-turned-down-1235113237/
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u/nice_one_champ 2d ago

There was some inspired moments in Resurrections (I quite liked the meta first act), but it had too many problems. And it’s most fatal flaw was including Morpheus and Smith:

-The screen time required to justify why/how they had both returned absolutely killed the pacing and strained credibility, which is insane because the plot mechanic required to make this happen was kinda introduced in Revelations with the Oracle

-And the worst sin was deciding to write a digital Morpheus into the real world, meaning they had to create that stupid plot mechanic. This was way too far and absolutely ridiculous writing from any standpoint, and not necessary (which makes me think that maybe there was plans for Fishburne to return early on)

-The actors were well cast, but the above writing issues absolutely hampered anything they could do to save this mess

-Neil Patrick Harris’ character was an ok villain (and was original at least), so beefing up his role could’ve worked to fill Smith’s part. And literally anything else would’ve worked than Morpheus being shoehorned in

-And to cap it off, by the end of the film (after going through the exhausting narrative hoops to make their inclusion happen)they feel completely unnecessary to the story. The meta-jokes about studio interference seem to be an attempt to justify this, but the entire this is an absolute clusterfuck as a result

/rant

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u/Anemeros 23h ago

In my opinion, It had some interesting ideas and I think it would have been fine if it just had the one thing everyone expected from a Matrix movie, which was good action. But no, it has budget TV action scenes.