★★★★

The hardest thing to do in this emergent sequel/reboot “genre” from the last decade or so is to convince your audience you have a right to exist. The total recall reboot fails miserably at this, but this movie succeeds unbelievably. It meaningfully updates the universe of the original film, explores the same themes from a totally different perspective, and achieves technical things in the freakin stratosphere.

I think the matrix resurrections is the only other one of these movies that is on the same level, but it comes at it from a totally different direction (satire!!! goofs!!! meta references!!!). This movie is so earnest and sincere and reverent of its source material that you just gotta give it up. This is an insanely good movie.