I only watched it to see if there’d be a reference to baudrillard’s Simulacra and simulation since I heard that there were millions of nods to the original. Baudrillard just ripped the matrix movies and assume that the the creators know about that. There wasn’t an explicit reference that I saw but this was *chefs kiss* on the nose.
The entire film is in dialogue with Baudrillard, Binaries, mirrors, the death of the real and elevation of nostalgia, killing your IP to get revenge against the system, simulations within simulations to distract from being in one, nothing can ever die because everything is already resurrected by the system. These aren't all ideas exclusive to him but they are all specific talking points in just the first few pages of his book. Even the fact that Baudrillard didn't like the first films because it was too clean about was is real and fake and he was pessimistic about ever being able to wake up, so now you have an entire film that seeks to blur the lines between the film world and ours, a product that feels fake, you're waiting the whole time for it to become "real" and it never does, there's constant blurring of the lines like characters eating red pills then immediately putting on blue glasses to steady themselves. The film is almost a visual adaptation of the ideas in his book, much more than the first film.
I still think its a shitty film (even if it was almost certainly intentional) but if someone is into philosophy and likes catching references or wants to dig there's stuff to be found.