Rehash my ass

I guess others see it differently. I never claimed it was a full ouy remake... only that it remake many scenes completely, wasting story time. Hell, the first couple minutes I've watched so far, did exactly that: the exact same start as the original. Is that creative and amazing? Not in the slightest.

I'll watch it because of my friend, but not looking forward to it. Even some fights in the trailers looking poorly edited. Like they didn't want to hurt each other

Of course. In terms of how it reinvented itself and built itself on the past...it was exactly what I was expecting/hoping the film would accomplish.

(My own evaluation of the movie notwithstanding, however.)

Who said the film was a rehash?

It was guilty of nostalgia bait though: opening scene, kung fu training Morpheus, subway vs agent Smith with many identical moves, steak etc.

Seeing as how the Analyst was trying to outdo the Architect, the one who created the 6th version of the Matrix we see in the previous trilogy, a rehash is expected with the 7th version of the Matrix.

This wasn't at all like The Force Awakens-A New Hope photocopy like we got a few short years ago.

It definitely wasn't a rehash, or in any way a remake/reboot/whatever. I don't like it as much as I do the original three, but it certainly has its moments, and it holds up well. This film is better than many of the other decades-later revisits we've seen to old franchises of late.

The reason it's getting criticized it's exactly because it's not like the previous movies. Which some see as a good thing and others as a bad thing.

I, for one, liked the social criticism that people have become obsessed with trying to recreate the past