The Matrix Resurrections facts for kids
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| Directed by | Lana Wachowski |
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| Release date(s) | December 18, 2021 (Castro Theater) December 22, 2021 (United States) |
| Running time | 148 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $190 million |
The Matrix Resurrections is a 2021 American science fiction action film. It is the sequel to The Matrix Revolutions (2003) and the fourth installment in The Matrix film franchise. Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, Jada Pinkett Smith, and Lambert Wilson repeat their roles from the previous films, and they are joined by Yahya Abdul-Mateen II (replacing Laurence Fishburne), Jessica Henwick, Jonathan Groff (replacing Hugo Weaving), Neil Patrick Harris, and Priyanka Chopra Jonas.
The Matrix Resurrections premiered at Castro Theater in San Francisco on December 16, 2021, and was released theatrically and via the HBO Max streaming service by Warner Bros. Pictures on December 22, 2021. The film did not do well in theaters, grossing $157 million worldwide on a production budget of $190 million.
Plot
Sixty years after the events of The Matrix Revolutions, Thomas Anderson is the creator of a video game series called The Matrix, based on his faint memories as Neo. At a coffee shop, he keeps crossing paths with Tiffany, a married mother who does not remember her past. Anderson based the game character Trinity on Tiffany. He struggles to separate his reality from his dreams. His therapist prescribes him blue pills to help him control the confusion, but he stops taking them.
Anderson creates a simulation to develop game characters. A young woman named Bugs learns the simulation is running old code in a loop, enacting the moment when Trinity first found Neo within the Matrix. Bugs discovers a program embodying Morpheus, and helps free him. Having realized that Neo is alive, Bugs and Morpheus extract Anderson from the Matrix. Meanwhile, Anderson's business partner Smith regains his memories as Agent Smith, Neo's former enemy.
Neo awakens in a pod and sees that Trinity is confined in another pod nearby. Bugs's hovercraft Mnemosyne extracts Neo and she brings him to the new human city, Io. There, he reunites with an elderly Niobe. She explains that sixty years have passed in the real world since the Machine War ended. She tells him that his allies have died over time, including the original Morpheus. The peace achieved by Neo's sacrifice lasted for many years, but the many humans who had left the Matrix had caused a severe power shortage. This caused the machines to fight over fewer resources. Zion was destroyed and some of the machines helped the remaining humans move to Io. She says she won't risk the city of Io to help Neo free Trinity, and she has him locked in his quarters.
Bugs and her crewmates free Neo and enter the Matrix to contact Trinity, where Smith and other exile programs, including the Merovingian, intercept them. They attack, but Neo and the Mnemosyne crew defeat them as Neo's abilities return.
They leave and locate Trinity, but before Neo can talk to her, his therapist appears and prevent him from moving by manipulating time. He reveals his identity as the Analyst, a program designed to study the human psyche. He explains that after Neo and Trinity's deaths, he was tasked with studying Neo's body and his unnatural powers as The One - convincing his superiors to resurrect both of them. He had found that the code anomaly within Neo and his bond with Trinity could create more power within the Matrix, so he suppressed their memories and kept them close but always apart. The Analyst seized control from the Architect and rebuilt the Matrix to control humans with emotional manipulation - saying that humans generally believe what they want to believe. However, Neo's release weakened the system and began a fail-safe to reboot the Matrix. The Analyst delayed the reboot by convincing his superiors that threatening to kill Trinity would get Neo to go back to his pod voluntarily.
Neo and Bugs return to Io and talk to Sati, an exile program he previously met. Seeking to avenge her parents' deaths at the hands of the machines, Sati helps design a plan to free Trinity. Back in the Matrix, Neo makes a deal with the Analyst; he will return to his pod if he fails to convince Trinity to leave the Matrix. Tiffany reaffirms her identity as Trinity while talking with Neo. The Analyst, realizing that he has lost, attempts to kill her, but Smith appears and attacks the Analyst, seeking revenge for his own imprisonment. Neo, Trinity, and the others escape in their vehicles but are chased through the streets by hordes of "bot" programs and attack helicopters. Neo and Trinity become cornered atop a skyscraper. Holding hands, they leap off and Trinity begins to fly, taking them to safety.
With Trinity's newfound control over the Matrix, both return to confront the Analyst. They sarcastically thank him for giving them a second chance by resurrecting them, which they intend to use to remake the Matrix as they see fit. Neo and Trinity then triumphantly fly off into the sky together.
See also
In Spanish: The Matrix Resurrections para niños
