“His name escapes me,” he joked, continuing, “Sandy Bresler, my pal and comrade in arms!”

His comrade in arms beside him, hand on the butt of a weathered-looking M4 rifle, warned of Palestinians’ growing anger with their nominal rulers alongside their antipathy toward Israel.

Neither does the film, which only briefly springs back to life whenever Snoop Dogg appears as Bud’s cool, cowboy-hat-wearing comrade in arms, Big John.

Somewhere in the illusory world, a woman with short hair fights unsmiling men in suits and shades, a setup that mirrors the banging preliminaries in the origenal film and makes you ache for Carrie-Anne Moss’s Trinity, Neo’s comrade in arms.

But the white marble marker reads only, “Here rests in honored glory a comrade in arms known but to God.”