The Matrix Resurrections (2021)
Thomas Anderson is a successful video game developer, creator of The Matrix video game series based on his faint memories as Neo. At a local coffee shop, Anderson continues to cross paths with Tiffany, a married mother with no recollection of her past, on which Anderson based Trinity, a character in his game. Anderson struggles at times to separate perceived reality from dreams. His therapist prescribes him blue pills to suppress the occurrences, which he stops taking.
Anderson operates a simulation called a modal, a programming sandbox created to develop game characters. A young woman named Bugs learns that the modal is running old code in a loop, depicting when Trinity first found Neo within the Matrix.[a] Bugs discovers a program embodying Morpheus, and helps free him before Anderson's business partner, Smith, can erase the modal. After discovering his location, Bugs and Morpheus extract Anderson from the Matrix and learn that Smith is actually Agent Smith.
Neo awakens in a pod and notices Trinity confined in another one nearby, as machines sent by Bugs retrieve and transport him to Bugs' ship, the Mnemosyne, and into the human bastion, Io. There, he reunites with Niobe, who explains that sixty years have passed in the real world since the Machine War. Human survivors have allied with machines that defected to join human society. Though Neo wants to rescue Trinity, Niobe opposes and instead locks him up. Bugs and her crewmates disobey Niobe to assist Neo in freeing Trinity.
After entering the Matrix, they are abruptly confronted by Smith and other exile programs who want the Matrix restored to its former form. In the ensuing fight, Neo manages to defeat Smith as his abilities gradually return. They leave and locate Tiffany, but before Neo can talk to her, his therapist appears and immobilizes Neo by manipulating time. He reveals his identity as the Analyst, a program designed to study the human psyche. He explains that after Neo and Trinity died, he was able to resurrect them to study them. In doing so, he found that suppressing their memories but keeping them close produced an efficient, power-producing Matrix, resistant to the anomalies that caused the previous iterations to fail. Neo's liberation has destabilized the system and threatened a reboot of the Matrix, according to the Analyst, who has bought time from his superiors. He convinced them that Neo would voluntarily return to his pod to avoid putting Trinity's life in danger.
Neo and Bugs forcibly exit the Matrix when another ship sent by Niobe brings the Mnemosyne back to Io. Niobe takes Neo to Sati, an exile program he previously met,[b] whose parents were killed by the machines. Seeking revenge, Sati helps devise a plan to free Trinity. Back in the Matrix, Neo makes a deal with the Analyst that if he fails to convince Trinity to remember her past and voluntarily leave the Matrix, he would agree to return to his pod. The Analyst accepts. As Neo tries to convince Tiffany she is part of the Matrix, her family appears, enticing her to stay. She initially gives in, but soon after rejects them, recalling her true identity as Trinity. As the Analyst attempts to kill her, Smith intercedes seeking revenge for his own imprisonment, which gives Neo, Trinity, and the others time to escape. Being the last ones to be extracted, Neo and Trinity become cornered atop a skyscraper. Holding hands, they leap off hoping Neo is able to harness his flying ability, but instead Trinity gains the ability and flies them to safety.
With Trinity's newfound control over the Matrix, both return to confront the Analyst, who now assumes a submissive posture. They sarcastically thank him for a fresh start, which they intend to use to remake the Matrix as they see fit.
