Thomas Anderson (Keanu Reeves) is a video game designer whose claim to fame is creating a popular video game known as The Matrix, which in a very meta way, closely resembles the events that unfolded in the first three Matrix films. He occasionally crosses paths with Tiffany (Carrie-Anne Moss), a married mother who looks like someone he once knew – or does she? The problem is that Anderson has recently been struggling to distinguish his dreams from reality and he’s not too fond of the blue pills prescribed by his therapist (Neil Patrick Harris) to keep him sane. Fortunately for Anderson, however, a group of rebels is about to show him the truth of what the Matrix really is.

If your head is already spinning from this brief synopsis, no one would blame you. But stick with it and you’ll find a comfortingly nostalgic and self-aware addition to the series.