I think I lasted longer than some other people did before finding it turned to shit.
Overall I’d say I enjoyed 80% of it.
The moment it turned for me was when “Tiffany” decided she was Trinity, and then they touched hands and created a mini explosion that blew away all the FBI bots. Pretty much everything after that was various degrees of bad, but up until there I mostly enjoyed it. The meta stuff at the beginning was particularly good, and I quite liked Smith although him calling Neo “Tom” stuck in the craw a little.
Trinity can fly now even though Neo can’t? Why?
Also Jada Pinkett deserves an Oscar for worst old person acting ever.
And then they John Lewis’d RATM which should be illegal.
Overall, 7/10, better than 2 & 3 but a long way short of the original.
Pretty much this (except Neo flies at the end).
A couple of things caught my attention:
When they are pitching the next game, and he says "they'll make it with or without you" I'm guessing that's exactly what happened. In which case, they would be much better off without either of the W sisters involved going forward.
Smith was entirely pointless, as were the "captains" being there at the end only to be ditched by Neo/Trinity at the first opportunity
Even though Smith was pointless, I liked who they chose and I also liked NPH surprisingly much more than I thought. He does creepy really well, which was the character. Morpheus on the other hand, can't think of a single thing I liked about what they did with the character.
As you said, overall I liked the idea behind the story enough. I just don't think Lana is anywhere near as good at the "meta" and related jokes as she thinks she is. In fact, I think she's watched an episode of Rick and Morty and attempted to rip that off without understanding even that. Similarly she seems to acknowledge the problem The Force Awakens had with pissing on the original trilogy and making it all seem pointless, so at least tries to account for that here...then gives us a bit of terribly attempted feel goods with the new Zion which actually means nothing to the story anyway.
Robot animals/bugs. Just so laughably dumb (and terribly designed/animated too).
Overall it was nowhere near as bad as I expected, and much better as part of the story than 3. I think the Wachowskis will never not have half-decent ideas but the lack of originality to actually pull them off properly. They always seem to miss the mark as they don't seem to get their own material. Matrix one and perhaps V were outliers, but then weren't their ideas.