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Summary: Metaphysical Psychosocialist Condribulum
Review: Okay, okay, so maybe I just don't get it. Maybe. Maybe my hair isn't long enough, or I don't know enough about philosophy, or databases....whatever. I love thoughtful movies, I love movies that dabble in the bizarre, but my requirement for those movies is that they give me somebody to care about, somebody real, somebody relatable. This movie only offered up shallow sketches of real people saying stupid and predictable emotional catchphrases over and over with the conviction of a highschool poet.The beginning of the movie interested me, I felt like I was watching a sci-fi Tarantino flick. I loved the Train Man, the little girl, and Smith successfully creeped me out. But...the 1,471 minute scene involving thousands of "sentinels" (whatever) invading the human city of Zion bored me to tears--you hear that? BORED ME! It's an action movie for goodness' sake, and all I wanted was for the stupid robots to go ahead and blow everybody, especially that Jar Jar Binksian moron-boy, straight to kingdom come. And when the commander died, I was relieved it was finally over, I wanted to laugh at him...I don't know why. Bottom line is, people who already know they will love it, will love it...if you have doubts, be wary.(...)
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Summary: Good action, but a horrible conclusion
Review: I said it with ReLoaded, and I stand by my statement...the Matrix should have been one movie and that is it. This movie is an improvement over ReLoaded, but still does not compare at all to the first one. One of the problems with ReLoaded was that there were too many new characters. The problem remains, as none of the new characters have any feeling to them. You care about Neo, & Smith pretty much. Even Morpheus, and Trinity to an extent, seem irrelevant in this chapter. Everyone else...meaningless. It is just one big faceless war. The war for Zion is the only thing that saves this movie. It is done rather well, and I give them credit for it. But, without giving anything away, the way in which the war concludes is just a MAJOR letdown after all the buildup. It basically makes anything the film did right seem pointless, and will simply anger you. This is not a movie to see more than once. Curiosity to see how it concludes if you have seen ReLoaded is the ONLY reason to watch this movie. If you have only seen the first one, avoid the sequals at all cost.
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Summary: What were they smoking?
Review: This was a bad movie. Plain and simple. Reloaded was cool, the first movie rocked but this just plain sucked the big one. There was no decent philosophical points brought up or given in the third. I really don't see how both Reloaded and Revolutions were filmed at the same time because there was no acting, no plot, and no directing. It was a waste of two hours that die hard fans will never get back.
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Summary: Waste of thought!
Review: Neo wore a dress. And what's up with his "DragonBall Z" fight with Smith? Couldn't they have stayed on the ground for more than 2 seconds? Oh and Naomi, about them not answering any questions for you, but rather only making more questions for you because they didn't even know what they were talking about so they tried to confuse you and sound all smart and deep when really all they needed to say at the end was ..... THIS MOVIE WAS A WASTE OF TIME! PLEASE FORGIVE US FOR WASTING YOUR TIME AND YOUR MONEY AND YOUR DAY! Don't you want something to talk about at the end of a movie rather than . . . "What the heck just happened?" I loved the 1st Matrix and after the first 40 minutes of the second one, I liked that one too. But c'mon . . . all of you die-hard (...) Matrix fans need to open your eyes and see that they should have stopped after the first one. The first Matrix was something new and exciting. But why over-do it with two more? Neo tore things up in the first two movies . . . why does he have to be a dress maker all of a sudden in the third movie? And to top all of that off, a sunset arises and a stupid girl says, "Look fake oracle, I made that for Neo. HUCK!" Did I just waste 5 minutes typing a review about the worst movie I've seen (...) But Matrix Revolutions made me cry! Actually, I had wasted so much time seeing the movie, I didn't even bother crying. Don't waste your time with this movie. And if you already have ... you don't have to anymore.
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Summary: Matrix Revolutions
Review: The Matrix Revolutions was definately a good movie that kept you thinking. After seeing the first movie, I expected alot more from Matrix Revolutions though. The first movie was such a hit that Matrix Revolutions was rushed and could have been alot better. Not to talk badly about a good movie, it just could have been alot better. As far as the widescreen edition goes, I hate it. Why buy a big T.V. and have a DVD that isn't going to cover the whole thing?
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Summary: Why all the negativity?
Review: The Matrix Revolutions is the perfect ending to the best sci/fi series in the last 10 years at least. I loved this movie! I just don't understand why everyone (on the net anyway, everyone i know loved it) is so quick to trash this film. The entire series is enthralling and unlike anything we've ever seen. I guess it's a bandwagon thing. I also loved Reloaded, which got the worst reviews of all of them. I saw Reloaded on a bootleg VCD in Baghdad with about 15 buddies and the "DAMN"s could be heard all over the camp. Isn't that what this kind of movie is supposed to do? It wasn't till i returned to the states that i found out it was supposed to suck. Anyway, along comes Revolutions and i see the same types of reviews and i dont understand. Devoid of emotion? Several lead charactors give thier lives for rest of humanity. Does it get any more emotional than that? Incoherent? Listen to the dialogue. The Oracle herself explains that nothing is concrete. Her answers are possibilities, not rules. Why sould
we have everything broken down for us us when our main charactors don't even know whats going on? We are with our charactors on this quest, not ahead of them.
Boring? Thats just plain wrong. This film kept me tapping my feet and chanting "go,go,go" to myself from beggining to end. The APU/Sentinal battle is by far the most awe-inspring specticle ever put on film. A MORE EXCITING MOVIE YOU WILL NOT FIND. So everything doesn't wrap up in a nice little package at the end. Aren't we tired of nice little packages yet? The Wachowski's have changed movie-making forever and deserve credit for it. Don't let negative reviews steer you away from this film or any other in the series. A movie has to be taken for what it is, not how YOU would have made it. Maybe it would make everyone happy if new filmmakers stopped trying to do fresh ideas and just kept churning out the same recycled crap we've been seeing for years. I am so tired of seeing the same old tired tripe recieving such praise and making billions. We are telling new talent to just throw thier hands in the air and give up. The Wachowski's probably have a lot more to offer, but after the reaction to this, thier lifes work, which they were obviously very proud of- will they bother? SEE this film and make your own decision. Like or dislike it for your own reasons and not because someone else is on a highhorse. Get off the bandwagon and take a movie for what it is : entertainment.
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Summary: Revolute This!
Review: You have to watch this simply as a science fiction movie; it is what it is and it is not meant to be anything else other than that (it is its "purpose").
And, as the end of the trilogy, this film SUCCEEDS in bringing it to a satisfying conclusion.
And, by the way, watching this film in the theatre was a SPECTACULAR cinematic experience. Cheers.
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Summary: Use your brain, that's what you've got it for...
Review: This movie leaves you with a lot of questions and a lot of things you have to come to your own conclusions. I loved that, it's one of the things that made the first so great. I had hours of debates after this one, just like the first. A lot of the things that people are saying were pointless distractions were put in the movie to explain what Neo is. The indian family, for example, were there to show you that programs can in fact feel love. Smith possessed Bane to show that a program can live inside a humans body. Neo was a program that loved. As the Architech explained, Neo has been there before. This war has been going on for who knows how long. How could it not end in a treaty of some sort. If the humans won, they would have to live in the stone ages. If they lost, how would the machines live without humans as a powersource? Neo exsisted to prove that humans and machines could live in peace. If he and Trinity can love one another, why can't there be peace. Is this movie as good as the first, no. It is an expansion of the premise. Hopefully anymore will come in the form of anime, games, and books. The first movie took the religion angle, while the last 2 took more of a mythology path. I would love to see some of the past Neos in an Animatrix format.
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Summary: (see ANIMATRIX first) <--------
Review: Tight movie, that's all I gotta say. And people are thinkin' the ending was shallow? THAT'S WHAT'S SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN! If you even know half of what's goin' on as a viewer, you can easily admire and respect not only this movie, but the whole series put to light as one of the most intelligent movies I've seen, period.
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Summary: The Matrix Misnamed
Review: I guess I should say this has some spoilers, before y'all read ahead. First off, I haven't seen the DVD, this is a review of the film.
The movie really doesn't deserve the level of trashing that some reviewers have given it, but it is IMHO the worst of the three films. However, I think that all three films are good, so my saying "Revolutions is the worst of the three" is really a comment about the other two. In effect, Revolutions serves best as a completion to Reloaded, not when standing on its own.
It's important to view the movie as such, for as others have said, there are some limitations to the plot. Bruce Spence, who was so effective in the Mad Max films, is brought in here as the Trainman but is not used effectively. In fact, the early Matrix content in the film seems perfunctory ( although it was stated well in advance of even Reloaded's release that the third film would feature the least amount of in-Matrix running time ). Also, the Merovingian and Persephone reappear in one scene which does not do much to justify their presence, resolving the train station plotline rather abruptly. It feels as though there should have been about half an hour more of the Matrix ( focusing on the Trainman and Merovingian ) in the beginning of this film.
The other glaring plot shortage, if you're going to look at it that way, comes at the end, and it's already been discussed in this space. Most people ( probably because of the misleading title "Revolutions" ) apparently went into this thing expecting to see a decisive victory against the machines, and they were disappointed. There's talk ( in the Architect's brief appearance ) of some people being allowed to leave the Matrix, but we don't get to see it, and after all it would just be that whole messy red-goo-swabbing process we saw in the first film repeated many times over, so maybe it wasn't thought of as something really worth filming.(?)
As far as those who say that this film doesn't do anything to explain the questions of the other films, consider that this film advances the idea that (in math terms) Smith = - Neo.
Or, Smith = -1 * Neo. This helps to show why Smith only grew more powerful, rather than being destroyed, after Neo became powerful. And conversely.... (hint) Something I really liked: the assault on Machine City, breaking through the Dark Cloud layer and seeing the sky the way it was meant to be seen.
This movie did seem to be parroting scenes from Reloaded and the Animatrix at certain points. The Zion Council scene, much like in the recent Star Wars films, felt like it was lifted from the previous film; the "Kid" re-uses dialogue from the Animatrix in the defense of Zion ( although I guess that makes you think of the Animatrix in context ).
Another thing: there's such a thing as a homage, and when your audience is sci-fi geeks, one has to take obvious allusions to other sci-fi as something more than mere copying, right? I'm not sure, but this film BLATANTLY rips off Dune Messiah and Dark City. Bringing a beautiful sunrise to the Matrix would be much more relevant if, in fact, the Matrix had been dark up to that point. But we know from evidence in the first two films ( including the Oracle's dialogue and what we've seen with our own eyes ) that there is quite obviously a programmed "sun" which makes its apparent motion through the sky of the Matrix, just another part of the simulated reality. So what is the importance of the sunrise, except as a metaphor?
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