What did y'all expect?

at first I was, but then I realized it was going to be a cash grab and revise the history of the previous 3 movies.

luckily the cash grab failed but we have more revisionist history. it basically nullifies the previous 3 movies....

instead of Neo being the One, both Neo and Trinity are now equals.

being as the first movie was clever and game changing in many ways, one could expect this one to be half decent, and not just meta, forth wall, self slaps and pointless. oh well.
I guess lightening only strikes once. I have not liked ANY of their productions post matrix, although V was kinda decent, so I should have guess, kinda did, and was right.

I was at least expecting something decent, like the other sequels. While nowhere near the original, they still had a lot of cool stuff to offer. This one was just bland.

I thought the trailers looked good, but then again I suppose that's the point of a trailer to sell you on seeing the movie.

Then Keanu Reeves said they 'barely rehearsed if at all' in an interview a few weeks before the film came out which had me worried. Then there was the review embargo lifting a day before release implying the studio were really trying to hide a turkey.

I thought the best case scenario would be the film would be on par with Reloaded and have some great action scenes but I never thought we'd get a complete dumpster fire like this.

No thinking person expected this to be any kind of good; and I’m not sure anyone over 30 seeing the original Matrix for the first time would think it was good. “Whoa”? Really?

I thought it was going to be better than the trilogy because the Mnemosyme was a better ship name than Nebudchazer. They should've tried to beat the machines again, access their mind-module or whatever to completely defeat them by imagination processes basically. Their one chance to beat the machines in the future.

Masterpiece? No, I tend to never expect a masterpiece, because you'll get really badly burned if you do.

But I expected a fun movie, that does not completely retread the previous ones to the point that it outright used complete sequences from them as flashbacks. The meta narrative could have been a clever touch, but only if the first 20 minutes of the movie is devoted to it, and the rest is something completely new.

So plot-wise, something new - but there wasn't anything new.

I expected it to respect the originals in the sense that all the character development and the results the heroes achieved should still stand. But no, they threw back Neo to level 1, threw back Trinity to level 0, and re-ignited the war against the machines (only in a much lamer fashion this time) despite the truce Neo provided with his self-sacrifice.

Even with all this, it could have been at least decent with great, innovative visuals and creative action-coreography. Guess what it did not provide? These things. The first Matrix revolutionized special effects with Bullet time and other tricks. The second and third one did not bring anything this groudbreaking, but had interesting fight coreography and a mile of highway built for one long awesome car chase sequence. This film had nothing of the sort, even the action scenes were lame retreads of previous ones, and the new sequences, such as the motorcycle chase were just bland, with nothing interesting going on. Neo only used the force field move over and over and over again, Trinity once flew, but that lasted for a whopping 20 seconds, and the visuals were really generic throughout.

So even if you don't expect a masterpiece, you should expect these things. But it was all bad, in all departments. And that's just sad, overall, especially considering the origins of the script itself.

I knew it was gonna be fucked when I heard that not only was Laurence Fishburne not going to be in the novie, even though Morpheus is in it, but the Wachoski thing didn't even approach him at all.