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mikehanna
Reviews
The Matrix Resurrections (2021)
Intentionally bad!
Worth watching just to recognise that this was made as a protest against the movie studio. Watching this I can only think that Lana W and the other writers went completely out of their way to kick WB at every opportunity, calling out the cash grab nature of this sequel, that their hands were forced to make this fourth one, with a sequel computer game being used as the example.
Scenes from the original cut into key moments of this movie, copying all the key beats and all the key shots from the original, reusing the same lines over and over. The only original aspect was using the Last Exile character again as an adult.
Characters taken from the second and third movies are woeful.
Absolutely horrendous. But horrendous by design.
X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)
Possible spoliers in the review
God... I think the X-Men are great. I collect the comics, I've got all the Blu-Rays and DVDs (especially the cartoon!) but this is not a good movie.
The main thing that burned into my mind was how they fridged Magneto's family. I think the wife and daughter each had maybe three lines if dialogue then they were killed just to further the story of the male protagonist. Once that happened I couldn't get back into it.