Oh yeah, there's definitely some good ideas in the movie, and like I said in my other comment, the movie version of Letters from Zedelghem is actually quite good. I really like the idea of reusing the same cast, but jesus fuck that makeup was horrible even when it wasn't racist.

The execution was just muddy, though. Having the actors return implies a connection between their characters, but only Tom Hanks and Hugo Weaving actually have coherent metacharacters in that sense (in that Weaving was always a villain and Hanks had an actual redemption arc when you view the stories chronologically)- the rest were just muddled and incoherent. I always support directors who try new things, and the Warchowskis in particular, but it just did not work for me this time.