The first one was great, despite that I had to endure normies shouting
>whoa, there's the matrix!
after me for some time until they forgot about it.
For the second and third installment however, I'm not so forgiving that it brought remembrance to this kein scum and now the fourth one was luckily completely ignored.
Also it feels like the trend of unnecessary continuations really started with Matrix after LotR taught Hollywood how it's done.
If Gladiator would release these days, we'd have a whole Gladiator cinematic universe with him visiting arenas all over the world and overthrowing antique governments.