Michelle Yeoh's new multiverse actioner is being compared to Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and The Matrix
Everything Everywhere All at Once reactions and reviews are in – and they praise a bizarre, unique adventure that brings to mind The Matrix.
The film sees Michelle Yeoh's Evelyn drawn from her ordinary life into a multiverse hopping adventure, because she is the only one who can save every world in existence from an ominous threat. The movie also stars Ke Huy Quan, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jenny Slate, and Stephanie Hsu, with Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (known as the Daniels) writing and directing.
Marya E. Gates, reviewing for RobertEbert.com, draws comparisons with several iconic films: "Born from choices both made and not made, each universe has a distinct look and feel, with winking film references ranging from The Matrix to The Fall to 2001: A Space Odyssey to In The Mood For Love to Ratatouille. Even Michelle Yeoh's own legacy finds its way into the film with loving callbacks to her Hong Kong action film days and the wuxia classic Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon."
"EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE is like THE MATRIX meets BEING JOHN MALKOVICH meets IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE meets JACKASS. I cackled & I wept & I exploded," says Cinapse News' Ed Travis.
David Ehrlich of IndieWire echoes The Matrix comparisons, while referencing the Daniels' earlier film Swiss Army Man: "The hows and whys of what happens next are best left for audiences to discover first-hand, but it might help to imagine if The Matrix had been directed by people who grew up watching The Matrix – more specifically, by people who grew up watching The Matrix, spent their twenties pushing the visual boundaries of viral videos in much the same way as the Wachowskis broke new ground for Hollywood blockbusters, and then spent all of the cache they'd accrued on a
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