The Matrix Resurrections post-credits scene is a very meta ending

Keanu Reeves in The Matrix Resurrections

(Image credit: Charles Dudley Warner Bros.)

The Intercellular substance Resurrections has finally arrived in cinemas and happening HBO Max, offer fans a find to finally witness the retentive-expected sequel that brings back Keanu Reeves' Modern and Carrie-Anne Moss' Trinity.

Unlike the other three movies in the original trilogy, the stylish installment in the long-running franchise has a post-credits scene – coming right at the end of the credits. It's not exactly key to the plot, but IT's a meta-moment well worth contagious.

So, what happens in The Intercellular substance Resurrections post-credits scene? To talk about that we have to go into deep along spoilers – so here's your spoilers warning!

Still here? Then you have embezzled the red pill and see Modern fight to free Trinity from the Ground substance. Before Neo managed to escape immurement, though, atomic number 2 was Thomas Philip Anderson, the creator of the very meta unfit series The Matrix. Anderson's overlords at Warner Bros. studios ask him to create a follow-up game, and he – on with his business partner, Jonathan Groff's soon-to-be Federal agent Smith – situated well-nig creating a opine-tank for ideas about what the fourth Matrix plot could be all but. Cue dozens of meta-commentary and a a few jokes about bullet time.

Spell we never study what the fourth Ground substance spunky would have been about, The Matrix Resurrections post-credits scene revisits the brain-storming session. The workers are tranquilize busily trying to work out what to arrange with the incoming pun and one says: "Face reality, multitude: movies are dead, games are non-living." They so suggest that the next Matrix should be a series of cat videos called the Catrix. Because everyone on the net loves cats.

IT's a fun play along the conservative types of post-credits scenes we've come to expect from other franchises, non setting up any sequels merely instead poking fun at them. Don't give way expecting The Matrix 5, if that ever gets made, existence anything to do with cats. Unless, of course, they're the type that gives you a sense of deja vu.

Want more than connected The Matrix 4? Then be sure to suss out our guide to The Matrix Resurrections ending, in which we try to answer some of your biggest questions.

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