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Summary: Stilted and drawn out
Review: The final volume of the tri-part Matrix movies was highly disappointing and utterly predictable. Whilst the first Matrix at least had mystery, discovery and special effects, the second and third installments have been very weak. Part II consisted of some story development, interesting new characters, a long highway chase scene, but it left confusing loose ends, many of which are not tied up in the "Revolutions". This last film is weak, lacks imagination, and adds nothing in the special effects department that we have not seen before. Mr Smith is not nearly disturbing enough (some psychological element would have been welcome here), Morpheus has lost all sense of mystery and Trinity has become ... feeble. In fact, all of the major characters are sadly uni-dimensional. Neo, who was originally on a path of self-discovery has become unconvincing as The One. If he were that, he would have gotten himself out of the subway station at the very least. In addition, the hopelessness of the people against the machines isn't nearly dark enough - that should have happened in the second movie to a much deeper extent, if we are to follow the traditional trilogy. The only saving grace of the movie is some fantastic performances by peripheral characters. The editors obviously thought so too, since much of the story focuses on them. The introduction of even more new characters seems superfluous, and a cynical view is that they are there to give some substance to the movie (it doesn't work). Of course, Trinity becomes a sacrifice but not before setting eyes on the sun (standard fantasy saga storyline, and obvious symbolism), and Mr Smith proves to be Neo's alterego (who'd have thought it ... the path to knowing thyself is inward). Self-sacrifice is the answer, of course. Although the storyline is standard, I can't help but feel that the final volume could have been more impressive and its interpretation more mature. Disappointing all round.
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Summary: A Perfect Vision
Review: To the Wachowski brothers, I say, thank you. You didn't underestimate your audience, you didn't compromise your vision, and what you created is wonderful.
Revolutions brings to an end the greatest science fiction epic ever put on film, and does so beautifully. Though it requires an attentive audience that is willing to think about the story, about its symbolism and its implications, about the questions it answers as well as those it leaves open to interpretation and debate, it never the less fulfills, and regardless of what the critics and the nit-pickers and the nay-sayers claim, it does resolve nicely, concluding in the only way that it really could. It also definitely lives up to all that came before it. Revolutions is a fantastic film, which will be even better when viewed consecutively with the first two movies, because ultimately, its all one continous story.
This is a story gives back to the viewer that which the viewer is willing to put into it. If you want nothing more than action and special fx, it delivers, and if you want something to ponder for years to come, it delivers this as well.
Personally, in the future, if I ever see anything that even remotely compares with it in content and passion, I will be amazed. I doubt that's likely though.
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Summary: Revolutions
Review: I don't believe I wrote a review here for the first two Matrix films, but now that I have seen the trilogy I'll toss in my two cents. The Wachowski's (from what I've heard) did much the same thing with the Matrix that George Lucas did with Star Wars. They had a basic story structure, or broad idea, and then chose to tell a specific story within that structure. Thus the first Matrix was made and gained cult status. So the brothers wrote the scripts for the next two films fleshing out their original thin structure.
I love the first Matrix. I greatly enjoyed trying to untangle the web of Reloaded, and I was entertained by Revolutions. The Biblical/Spiritual thread that was established in the first film gets almost completely dropped in the second, only to reappear at the end of the third. Personally I think the Wachowskis were only trying to do what they originally set out to do: make movies that were a combination of superhero comics, Japanese manga, kung-fu movies, and spirituality. Frankly, I think they succeeded. This is imaginative sci-fi/fantasy. The critical bashing that Revolutions has received is a mirror of the times we live in. Nearly every negative review I've read has mentioned the blatant spiritual allegorical elements and the unsatisfying ending. In my opinion the film ended the only way it could have. In the end, it's all about what the individual viewer gets out of it.
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Summary: SUPER GEEKS UNITE
Review: I love it when my hyper science fiction fans try to explain the intricacies of the Matrix trilogy. Apparently I'm missing all the sublime metaphors and clever analogies that - so I've been told - are what makes this movie brilliant beyond words. The secret club, which used to be populated by Star Trek geeks who actually took the time to master the useful language of Klingon, is now rounded out by the masses of Matrix fans that've convinced themselves that they understand the plot and now are superior beings. Folks love the movie or hate it; it does not make sense PERIOD!
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Summary: Mr Anderson, we've been waiting for you.
Review: The Matrix Revolutions is an incredible sci-fi masterpiece. It is full of action, plot,
philosophy, and mystery. The third movie of this series is when the battle for Zion
occurrs and the war begins. As the war is happening, Agent Smith has made everyone
in the Matrix into a copy of himself. He too is becoming a threat to mankind.
Meanwhile, Neo believes that to save Zion, he must travel to the machine world to make
a deal with the machines. I believe that Revolutions is the best of the 3 movies and is one
of the greatest sci-fi stories ever written. Revolutions is a must-see in the theatres and a
must-buy on video!!
Rating: 
Summary: OK
Review: I love the Matrix and I could not wait for this movie to come out, especially after the disappointing ending to the last Matric movie, and I get tot eh theater and I sit down expecting a great movie, and what do I get, a good movie but a huge let down from the first two. It was so much like the first it was a little boring. I enjoyed it, only because I liked the series, and it had some great effects and I will get it when it comes to DVD...ONLY to comkplete the trilogy....
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Summary: BAD BUM ENDING
Review: AS FAR AS ACTION AND SPECIAL EFFECTS GO, REOADED BEATS REVOLUTIONS. BUT, AS FAR AS A GOOD STORY, REVOLUTIONS WHOOPS RELOADED. PEOPLE NEED TO UNDERSTAND THAT RELOADED WAS THE FIRST PART OF AN INCOMPLETE MINISERIES. REVOLUTIONS IS THE CONCLUSION AND ENDS IT WONDERFULLY. GREAT ACTION AND SPECIAL EFFECTS. WHEN THAT GIANT SWARM OF SENTINELS BARREL THROUGH THE CEILINGS OF ZION, I COULD HEAR MOST OF THE PEOPLE IN THE THEATRE GASPING. THE FINAL CONFRONTATION WITH THE MACHINES, NEO AND AGENT SMITH ALONE WAS WORTH THE ADMISSION. PEOPLE WHO TRASHED RELOADED IN THIER REVIEWS NEED TO SEE THIS MOVIE. THEY WILL APPRECIATE RELOADED MUCH MORE SINCE THE SERIES IS NOW COMPLETE.
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Summary: A Love Supreme
Review: With the third installment of the Matrix trilogy, the Wachowski Brothers have found Spirituality: Redemption, Catharsis, Family bonding and most of all Love.
This is the most personal film of the trilogy and for that it will probably get slammed by those who feel that The Matrix should only be about balletic fights, blowing up machines or buildings or killing people. But there has always been a strong undercurrent of Spirituality in all of the Matrix films: it's just that here, it is in the forefront. The battle scenes act as a respite from the scenes of Love and bonding between the cast members: Sati and the Oracle, Sati and her father and mother, Neo and Trinity, Morpheus and Niobe to name a few.
One of the nice things about all of the Matrix films is that the Wachowski's have made sure to populate their movies with all races. Their future world embraces all people and in particular Women as Warriors. Niobe, Trinity and Zee all have an agenda and do not hesitate to physically act upon it and in this Matrix this means they save their men from death and Zion from destruction.
"Matrix Revolutions" is a beautiful film, filled with glorious images, do not hate it because it wears its heart on its sleeve: Love is All We Need, after all.
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Summary: Disapointing
Review: So here you have The Matrix, a modern-day classic describted as the 'thinking man's action movie'. It actually disregards categorisation though, and appeals to a broad range of people. What do you do next? You make two distinctly average sequels, and ruin the whole thing, that's what. The fact that this third film - Matrix Revolutions - is a slight improvement on Matrix Reloaded is sadly not enough to repair the damage done. For a start, Revolutions is ridiculously over-complicated. Your traditional film might start with some questions, and slowly answer them during the course of the movie; Revolutions on the other hand begins with many questions, and ends with many more. Annoyingly, this is despite the fact that several characters try and answer your questions as you go along, none more so than the Oracle, who, if we're being honest, just confuses matters even more. It had all been too simple: in The Matrix, we had a classic good versus evil battle. Now however, the good is splintered into good, alright, dislikeable and bad people inside Zion, and the bad is too puzzling to believe: the Merovingian, the Trainman, the Architect, an unplugged and unhinged Agent Smith not accountable to the machines.... Who is working for whom? And why? It must have been tough for the Wachowski brothers trying to establish some sense of purpose and clarity in the middle of all that, because for the viewer, it is difficult to find any. Secondly, the original film's major strength has all but been destroyed. I'm talking about Morpheous of course. His was a pheonomenal character: cool, swarve, wise and strong, he was Neo's version of Luke Skywalker's Obi-Wan Kenobi - but better. But by the start of Revolutions and beyond, he is barely a bit-part character. He makes absolutely no decisions, leads absolutely no people, has little authority and appears to have little conviction. Everything about him is insipid and weak, and to my mind, it makes Revolutions a worse film; this may be simplistic, but taking the first film's most likeable character and reducing him to nothing leaves a big void. The few rather humourless, and r
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Summary: All I could say is wow! that ruled! wow!... wow!...
Review: I'll try to keep this short, because I could go on and on about this movie if I didn't watch out. But I LOVED it after my first viewing, and after the second, I decided it was DEFINITELY ON PAR WITH THE FIRST MATRIX, AND PROBABLY EVEN BETTER. And this, despite the lack of the stunning revelations that the first had. The first Matrix had shocking revelations, for sure, but the second two have slowly unfolding ideas that add depth to the original and give reason to love, discuss and debate this trilogy for years to come. Plus all that great action and graphics! I was disappointed (a lot) with Reloaded, but tried to reserve judgement until seeing Revolutions. It isn't fair to judge a movie by only its first half, after all. Everyone seemed to think it had either too much action or too much talk. I thought it had way too much of each. Not really too much talk, but the way they did it made it seem like too much. And there was so much action that seemed gratuitous and purposeless. But I watched Reloaded a few more times and it grew on me as I saw how it might fit in to the trilogy and realized how it expanded on the philosophy. And I like it even more after seeing Revolutions! As for Revolutions, IT BLEW MY MIND RIGHT FROM THE START. Everything is in perfect balance and it is a perfect crowning end (maybe) to the trilogy. Everything necessary is explained, but it still leaves room for another sequel... such as the possibility of Neo coming back from wherever he is (at the Source?), explaining exactly what the Source is and its relationship to the Machine World, etc. How could the Architect be "God" (as some say) when his presence wasn't necessary (maybe he didn't exist) until the machines needed a matrix to control human beings? How could both humans and machines predate God, if they did? Ditto for the Merovingian. And, could he possibly be the first "One", gone bad? What is the Oracle's relation to the Architect, in the grand scheme of things? How will the relations between free man, machine, program, and man-in-pod develop? Is peace possible? Will the sky be cleared? This movie brought a very satisfactory ending to the trilogy, while still leaving plenty more for a sequel. PLEASE, WACHOWSKI BROTHERS, GIVE US ANOTHER MATRIX MOVIE!!! FOR SOME OF YOU CRITICS who think there is too much talk or not enough answers in Revolutions, try watching all of the Matrix movies again. There is hardly a word of wasted dialogue, which only becomes clear if you pay attention the whole way through. And almost everything you could have a question about is likewise answered by careful attention to the dialogue. A little research, LEARNING from other sources, and THINKING about how philosophy applies to OUR OWN little existences doesn't hurt either. FOR THOSE WHO SAY REVOLUTION LACKED BULLET TIME, watch the scene when Neo punches Smith in the jaw in the rain. The rain droplets in Revolutions are the equivalent of bullet time in Matrix and I have to say I was WAY more impressed with the effect of "RAINDROP TIME" than bullet time. I can't wait for the DVD so I can hit the "instant replay" button over and over again! And for those who have been merciless in their criticism of the new Oracle.... I can sort of see where you're coming from. I missed the old Oracle at first too. But by the end of the second time I saw Revolutions, I decided I liked her way better than the first (with my apologies and respect to the deceased) and wouldn't want to have any Oracle but her again. I thought Keanu's acting was great, including the "cry scene" so many seem to complain about. You're the One, Neo! Just right for this part, if not for every other part on the planet. As for Morpheus acting so subdued... how do you expect someone to act who's realized that EVERYTHING he's worked and fought for ALL HIS LIFE (finding the One) has been a big lie? Of course he's going to be super bummed out, "a bit" depressed, and more than a little leary of putting his opinions or beliefs forth again. Fishburne portrayed Morpheus the only way he could be portrayed in Revolutions. The airborne fight between Neo and Smith was a bit campy, to be sure, but I ADORED it! And as for Smith, there are too few words to describe the delight in watching his "program" display of half, if not the whole, gammut of "human" emotions. I could find some things to nit-pick about, but they're so easy to overlook in the context of the movie and the trilogy as a whole. Who of us can do better? Perfection is not of this earth and people who try to destroy the majesty of a "mountain" by frantically pointing out the "molehills" at its base to anyone they can get to listen only make themselves look like petty ignoramuses who have never had the sense or the sensibility to lift their eyes to the moutain peaks. I'm sure some people just might not like philosophical movies or this one in particular, but those critics on some sites who give Revolutions all "F's" (including for visuals!) are clearly *****s who don't have the brains, the decency or the honesty to separate one aspect of the movie from the other. I better quit now. I'm going to see this one again and again, and buy the DVD when it comes out. And of course, I'll be first in line if ever there is another Matrix movie. DON'T LET THE CRITICS STOP YOU FROM SEEING AND EXPERIENCING A PERFECTLY SPECTACULAR MOVIE!!!!
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