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...Richard
Dean Anderson! Holy shit! Apparently all those rumors
of contract disputes with star Keanu Reeves we've been hearing
about online start to make sense. Luckily one of our country's
most talented actors was willing
to fill Neo's shoes.
The
Wachowski Brothers wisely elect not to "gloss over"
the actor switch, as Trinity is shown in a quick cut scene looking
intensely shocked. So shocked,
in fact, that she takes off her sunglasses for the first time
in the history of the Matrix series, revealing only empty
sockets where her eyes should be. Finally, all the
not-so-subtle allusions Neo made to eye-fucking
in the last two installments start to make sense.
Morpheus
is shocked too, though not as shocked as Trinity, as he keeps
his sunglasses on. He does lift up his shirt briefly, however,
and we notice that he has empty sockets
where his nipples should be.
Then,
WHAMMO! he's kicked in the face
for his trouble. You can never let your guard down in the Matrix,
folks. Not with all the face-kicking and eye-fucking going on
at such a breakneck speed!
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Meanwhile,
ace matrix hacker Tank Switchdozerson
receives a mysterious email from none other than Agent
Smith. When he opens it, he finds an insulting forwarded
joke email about The Matrix Reloaded sucking. Tank is beside
himself with anger.
Meanwhile,
Agent Smith is loving it! He laughs it
up at Tank's expense for a full
forty-eight seconds of screen time. His laugh is no
playful laugh, either. Agent Smith laughs like a pedophile in
a daycare. But is he really molesting
children? The trailer isn't giving anything away, but
if I know the Wachowski brothers and I think it's fair to
say that I do the smart money's on "maybe". Now
finally all those Hugo Weaving child molestation pictures online
are starting to make sense.
Tank quickly
turns the tables with a photoshopped image of Agent Smith naked
with Osama bin Laden. Now
it's Agent Smith's turn to be outraged! Tank enjoys Smith's rage
like a fine wine. Clearly, this is battle that won't easily be
won by either side.
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It wouldn't
be a Matrix trailer without the Wachowski Brothers' patented gun
violence, and Matrix Revolutions
looks to be no exception. Morpheus, some
guy and Trinity
burst into a dance club and start shooting everybody for reasons
unexplained. It's actually unbelievably graphic for a trailer,
and a little unsettling, since the people in the club haven't
seemed to have done anything wrong, and fall over each other screaming
in their attempt to escape with their lives. Still, the filmmakers
must know what they're doing. I'm sure it makes sense in the film.
"Please,
I have a two year old child at home!" pleads a clearly
pregnant woman, before Morpheus shoots her between
the eyes and laughs. "You should have thought of that before
you got shot by my gun,"
he quips. He then shoots a man in the leg, and pulls up a chair
to watch him writhe on the ground.
Trinity, meanwhile,
has cornered a Frenchman.
"Where's MacGyver?" she growls.
"I don't
know what you're talking about!" pleads the Frenchman. "I
just came here to dance, oh my god, please don't kill me!"
Trinity shoots
him between the eyes. "I guess MacGyver's not here,"
she says.
"Well,
that's three buildings on the block covered," says Morpheus,
reloading his gun. "Let's check next door. We've got a lot
of Matrix to cover tonight." The search continues!
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We cut to
MacGyver himself, who isn't even in the Matrix, but on
Morpheus's ship. Looks like Morpheus and Trinity got some bad
information. We get a chance to see MacGyver's cool
new Matrix costume it looks great! Tank calls him
over to the main console, where he worriedly checks his computer
screens.
"MacGyver,
we got trouble," he says.
Trouble and
then some. An enormous
robot warship hovers just outside Zion, and with Morpheus
and Trinity dicking around
in that club, it's up to MacGyver to bring it down.
Never one
to back down from a challenge that will let him flex his
problem-solving skills, MacGyver quickly heads to his lab,
where he makes what looks to be some kind of explosive from saltpeter,
aluminum shavings and Pam no-stick spray. Sharp Matrix
fans will notice a new character in the background, Merlin
the Matrix Wizard and Tally,
the Tallest Man in the Matrix. What roles will they
play in the battle against the Matrix? One can only hope their
parts have something to do with magic
and being tall, or they've
been horribly miscast.
From this
point, it's just a matter of breaking into the robot warship to
plant the bomb. MacGyver easily
picks the warship's lock using a credit card, a bolt of raw silk
and common genital sweat.
He's in! What
happens next?
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