Review Detail

This one is definitely older and is not representative of Spence's current abilities.

To get the negatives out of the way:
I counted more than twenty audio slides/cuts/choppy dialogue, and there were several errant frames that hadn't been removed (a few at the 1hr8min mark).

Narratively, removing the first Agent fight was an odd choice. Removing our introduction to backdoors would make several later scenes confusing to newbies. Keeping Seraph's explanation would solve this pretty easily. I also would've liked to see just a little more explanation about the plan to defend Zion.

There are plenty of positives though! I know others have said the animation didn't fit but I liked the added Osiris clip. Removing Trinity being shot helps a lot, and avoids the fact that he saves her life but then she dies anyway). I like the reorganized Bane plotline. And I liked the 2hr30min runtime.

Overall, I feel bad sort of bashing a Spence project, their later work is so so good, but this one does miss the mark and shows that it was earlier in Spence's career.