Films like The Matrix Revolutions.

The Matrix Revolutions (2003) reads as Heavy, breathless, extreme adventure / action, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured. Every film below is ranked by distance across the same twelve hand-scored axes — with what it keeps, and where it walks away. Not a genre dump.

Star Trek: Nemesis (2002) poster
1. Star Trek: Nemesis2002

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the white-knuckle intensity — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Æon Flux (2005) poster
2. Æon Flux2005

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the white-knuckle intensity — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Planet of the Apes (2001) poster
3. Planet of the Apes2001

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the white-knuckle intensity — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Predators (2010) poster
4. Predators2010

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the white-knuckle intensity — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991) poster
5. Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country1991

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the white-knuckle intensity — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Die Another Day (2002) poster
6. Die Another Day2002

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the white-knuckle intensity; trades toward a unmistakable directorial hand.

Paycheck (2003) poster
7. Paycheck2003

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the white-knuckle intensity — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Predator 2 (1990) poster
8. Predator 21990

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the white-knuckle intensity — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Criminal (2016) poster
9. Criminal2016

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the white-knuckle intensity; trades toward a relentless forward drive.

Species (1995) poster
10. Species1995

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the white-knuckle intensity; trades toward a relentless forward drive.

Elysium (2013) poster
11. Elysium2013

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the white-knuckle intensity; trades toward a relentless forward drive.

The Postman (1997) poster
12. The Postman1997

Keeps the white-knuckle intensity and the world-sized stakes; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

These are The Matrix Revolutions’s neighbours — where are yours?

Rate five posters and the same twelve axes read you — then tonight’s pick comes from your own centre of taste.

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