Despite an interesting premise and a talented cast, including Justice Smith and David Alan Grier, this lightweight social satire can't get out of its own way
Although The Matrix came out two years before Spike Lee famously coined the term “magical, mystical Negro” in 2001, it successfully inverted the potential fulfillment of that trope. Morpheus was undoubtedly a self-sacrificing guide to Neo. but it was Morpheus’ confidence, the weight of respect his character’s presence inspired throughout the film’s world.
Aren is a shockingly incurious protagonist. Besides Roger, Aren never has any meaningful conversations with the various members of the society, and never tries to. The members all flit about in the background of classrooms and hallways tinged with mystically warm light, littered with wand boxes, thick, leather-bound books, and magical smoke of a Hogwarts-lite aesthetic.
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