A recent tweet from Richard Newby read, “Me seeing tweets saying Free Guy is a better version of The Matrix Resurrections (I liked Free Guy, but the level of media illiteracy…).”
In terms of reviews from the public, people said that the Ryan Reynolds Free Guy was better than The Matrix because of Guy’s journey and how he views the real and the digital world. There are a lot of parallels between Free guy and The Matrix, but Guy’s story ultimately ends up being superior. In addition to writing about film, television, comics, and horror, Richard Newby is an author and pop culture journalist. The Hollywood Reporter, The New York Times, and Fangoria have published his work. With The Matrix, the Wachowskis had Neo, Morpheus, Trinity, and the rebels breaking people out of their digital world, assembling an army to attack the machines in the real world. While the machines wanted them to stay “sleeping” drones, Neo’s team liberated people without concern for the background players. In Free Guy a character named Guy lives in Free City, an open-world video game world where he tends to be a background character. In the end, everything changes when the bank worker gains the ability to speak and falls in love with the game’s developer, Millie (Jodie Comer). She is also revealed to be the Chosen One, leading to Soonami Studios’ exposure.
