[SSLy]

> I still don’t know why she even agreed. The pay check?

She put it bluntly in the first 15 minutes, in meeting scene.

[vincnetas]

the scene :

    ...now the packet in front of you has our focus group research inside you'll find the breakdown including key word association with the brand the top two being originality and fresh which i think are great things to keep in mind as you begin working on matrix four and who knows how many more...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roeN9Cjkan0

[moomin]

Yeah, Neo is told the project is going ahead with or without his involvement so he gets involved to make it suck less.

[prepend]

It’s hard to imagine a suckier version of what they made.

[echelon]

I think it's brilliant.

Only when the reveal is done and the action starts does it begin to fall apart as a lackluster story with subpar motivations and arcs.

Until that point it's a fantastic mindfuck.

If they'd simply left it as a drama with no action at all and focused more on character development, it could have been amazing.

[moomin]

Oh, it's very easy. Watch Terminator: Genisys sometime. Or the Alien vs Predator movie.