Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss returned to their iconic roles of Neo and Trinity in Lana Wachowski’s “The Matrix Resurrections” last year.
That fourth installment in the sci-fi action franchise also saw actors Jada Pinkett Smith and Lambert Wilson reprise their roles, but there were two notable absentees – Laurence Fishburne and Hugo Weaving.
Oddly enough versions of both their characters appear – Yahya Abdul-Mateen II as an A.I. creation based on the actual Morpheus (who is long dead), and Jonathan Groff as a version of Agent Smith.
The $190 million-budgeted film opened in December last year and failed to take off. Reviews were mixed and the film ended up taking in only $157 million at the global box-office.
Now, nearly a year on, Fishburne offered his thoughts on the film at the premiere of Netflix’s “The School for Good and Evil” on Tuesday evening. Talking with Variety, he praised his former co-stars but stopped short of praising the film:
“It wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be. And it wasn’t as good as I hoped it would be, but I thought Carrie-Anne and Keanu really did their thing. Yeah, that’s what I thought.”
Asked if he felt like he had missed out on being a part of the revival, Fishburne said rather matter of factly: “No, not really.”
Whilst Fishburne didn’t rejoin Reeves in the fourth “The Matrix,” he will be co-starring with him in the fourth “John Wick” film which has already been shot and opens next year.
He also has a role in “The School for Good and Evil” which debuts on Netflix today.
