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Movies that feel likeThe Matrix Reloaded (2003)

The Resistance builds in numbers as humans are freed from the Matrix and brought to the city of Zion. Neo discovers his superpowers, including the ability to see the code inside the Matrix. With machine sentinels digging to Zion in 72 hours, Neo, Morpheus and Trinity must find the Keymaker to ultimately reach the Source.

If you loved The Matrix Reloaded, the closest films we have are Timecrimes (2007), X-Men: Apocalypse (2016) and Déjà Vu (2006). All three share The Matrix Reloaded's cerebral feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Paprika (2006).

🍅 74% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.2 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Lana Wachowskikinetictensecerebraldreamlike
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: The Matrix (1999) · The Matrix Revolutions (2003) · The Matrix Resurrections (2021)

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Timecrimes
2007 · dir. Nacho Vigalondo
🍅 90%★ 7.1science fiction · thriller

The same mix in both: tension, then ideas

The difference: Trades the momentum of The Matrix Reloaded for an angle of its own

A man accidentally gets into a time machine and travels back in time nearly an hour. Finding himself will be the first of a series of disasters of unforeseeable consequences.

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X-Men: Apocalypse
2016 · dir. Bryan Singer
🍅 47%★ 6.8science fiction · fantasy · actionDisney+

One thread runs through both: hero

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

After the re-emergence of the world's first mutant, world-destroyer Apocalypse, the X-Men must unite to defeat his extinction level plan.

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Déjà Vu
2006 · dir. Tony Scott
🍅 55%★ 7.1action · thriller · science fiction

Kinetic action in both cases

Called in to recover evidence in the aftermath of a horrific explosion on a New Orleans ferry, Federal agent Doug Carlin gets pulled away from the scene and taken to a top-secret government lab that uses a time-shifting surveillance device to help prevent crime.

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Cloverfield
2008 · dir. Matt Reeves
🍅 78%★ 7action · thriller · science fictionParamount+Peacock

Both lean on momentum more than on thriller

Five young New Yorkers throw their friend a going-away party the night that a monster the size of a skyscraper descends upon the city. Told from the point of view of their video camera, the film is a document of their attempt to survive the most surreal, horrifying event of their lives.

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Predators
2010 · dir. Nimród Antal
🍅 66%★ 6.4science fiction · action · thriller

Science fiction built on tension, twice over

A group of cold-blooded killers find themselves trapped on an alien planet to be hunted by extraterrestrial Predators.

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Paprika
2006 · dir. Satoshi Kon
🍅 87%★ 7.7animation · science fiction · thrillerRent or buy

Reality and dream layers folding into each other mid-chase

The difference: Anime surrealism — it prizes imagery over action logic

Dr. Atsuko Chiba is a research psychologist who uses a device called the DC Mini to enter her patients' dreams, wherein she adopts the alter-ego "Paprika". When the device is stolen, she must stop rogue elements from merging the dream and waking worlds.

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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
2003 · dir. Stephen Norrington
🍅 16%★ 5.8fantasy · action · thriller

A team of gifted outsiders assembled against a world-scale plot

The difference: A notorious 2003 misfire — muddled plot and dated effects

To prevent a world war from breaking out, famous characters from Victorian literature band together to do battle against a cunning villain.

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Æon Flux
2005 · dir. Karyn Kusama
🍅 9%★ 5.4science fiction · action · thrillerPrime VideoParamount+

The same preoccupation in both: martial arts

400 years into the future, disease has wiped out the majority of the world's population, except one walled city, Bregna, ruled by a congress of scientists. When Æon Flux, the top operative in the underground 'Monican' rebellion, is sent on a mission to kill a government leader, she uncovers a world of secrets.

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Next
2007 · dir. Lee Tamahori
🍅 28%★ 6.2action · science fiction · thriller

A man who reads the future a beat ahead, bending every fight his way

The difference: Cheap-looking and silly — the premise deserved better

Las Vegas showroom magician Cris Johnson has a secret which torments him: he can see a few minutes into the future. Sick of the examinations he underwent as a child and the interest of the government and medical establishment in his power, he lies low under an assumed name in Vegas, performing cheap tricks and living off small-time gambling "winnings." But when a terrorist group threatens to detonate a nuclear device in Los Angeles, government agent Callie Ferris must use all her wiles to capture Cris and convince him to help her stop the cataclysm.

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Pacific Rim: Uprising
2018 · dir. Steven S. DeKnight
🍅 41%★ 5.6action · fantasy · science fictionMax

Humanity's last line rallying tech and nerve against machine-scale war

The difference: A toyetic sequel — the mythology feels secondhand

It has been ten years since The Battle of the Breach and the oceans are still, but restless. Vindicated by the victory at the Breach, the Jaeger program has evolved into the most powerful global defense force in human history. The PPDC now calls upon the best and brightest to rise up and become the next generation of heroes when the Kaiju threat returns.

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Hollow Man
2000 · dir. Paul Verhoeven
🍅 25%★ 5.9action · science fiction · thrillerPrime Video

Action with a pulse of ideas, in both cases

Cocky researcher Sebastian Caine is working on a project to make living creatures invisible. Determined to achieve the ultimate breakthrough, Caine pushes his team to move to the next phase — using himself as the subject. The test is a success, but when the process can't be reversed and Caine seems doomed to future without flesh, he starts to turn increasingly dangerous.

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The Dark Tower
2017 · dir. Nikolaj Arcel
🍅 16%★ 5.6fantasy · action · science fictionParamount+

Dreamlike science fiction, and it commits to that

The difference: Leans harder into fantasy than The Matrix Reloaded does

A boy haunted by visions of a parallel world aids its disillusioned guardian in preventing the destruction of the nexus of universes known as the Dark Tower.

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