Laurence Fishburne has provided an honest review of The Matrix Resurrections, the movie in which he was infamously not cast in despite appearing in the original trilogy.
After a 19-year break following The Matrix Revolutions, director and writer Lana Wachowski went back to the franchise to create a fourth movie that would eventually be called The Matrix Resurrections.
In Resurrections, the characters of Neo and Trinity are living seemingly normal lives within the simulation of The Matrix, when the former begins to gather memories of his past life.
It is generally considered to be a box office bomb as it grossed $157 million in cinemas on a budget of $190m, though a lot of that performance can be attributed to the fact that it was released on HBO Max a week after being released in cinemas.
One of the criticisms pointed to the movie was the recasting of popular characters Morpheus and Agent Smith, played by Fishburne and Hugo Weaving in the original trilogy.
In Matrix Resurrections, the characters, or versions of them, are played by Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Jonathan Groff.
Fishburne has provided his two cents on the movie, and was fairly democratic.
“It wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be. And it wasn’t as good as I hoped it would be,” he said
“But I thought Carrie-Anne and Keanu really did their thing. Yeah, that’s what I thought.”
When asked by Variety if he felt he missed out on anything, Fishburne replied: "No, not really."
Why was Fishburne not in Matrix 4?
Fishburne has previously revealed that he was simply "not invited" back to portray Morpheus for the fourth movie in the Matrix franchise.
"I have not been invited," he told New York Magazine.
"Maybe that will make me write another play. I wish them well. I hope it’s great.”
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