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Summary: "Why, why, Mr. Anderson, why get up? Why do you perservere?"
Review: NOTE: I saw an edited version of this film, with swear words, sex scenes, nudity, and very graphic violence deleted. I can't vouch for the content of the unedited film, and as a Christian I would advise looking into it before viewing this movie. Also, this review will spoil the plot for those who haven't seen the movie yet. 2003 seemed to be the year of third installments. We had Return of the King, T3, and then the Matrix Revolutions-at least. I haven't followed every movie out there, so there may have been even more.
So how does Revolutions measure up? After only one viewing I can tell you-it didn't. Which is to say-it was really, really bad. Not only was it one of the most unsatisfactory ends to a trilogy that I have seen, but it was just one of the more poorly made, stupid, and pretentious films in my experience-exceeded only by a couple of other bombshells my family and I walked in to without knowing their lack of worth.
What made it so bad? It wasn't the plot. It had its faults-most plots have some-but better directors could have done more with it. A sketchy form of it is as follows.
The human city of Zion is within twenty hours of being attacked by a quarter million sentinels, the machines' most ubiquitous 'soldiers'. The citizens prepare for an attack, and it comes in due course. The humans get the worst of it until one of their own hovercraft gains a temporary reprieve by setting off its Electro-Magnetic Pulse, a weapon that disables all the machines in its blast radius. But the machines aren't about to give up, and the humans know it's only a matter of time before they are attacked again.
Meanwhile, Neo has had some sort of vision or other that he is supposed to go to the machine city. Several people tell him it's suicide to go there, but one of the hovercraft captains who believes in him gives him a ship, and he and Trinity leave. Neo is confronted on the ship by another incarnation of his old nemesis, Agent Smith-but this time Smith has copied himself into someone in the real world. Smith ends up blinding Neo with some laser gun or electric instrument, but the man he copied himself into dies in the encounter.
Somehow Neo can still see, although everything appears to him as orange flame. They reach their destination, where Trinity is killed after their hovercraft crashes. Neo continues his quest despite his grief, and after a talk with the Source, where he makes a deal that, if he defeats Smith, the Source will call off the attack on Zion, he is plugged into the Matrix, where he has a final confrontation with Smith.
A plot like this could have been worked with-although all the stuff about the Source was lame-but the Wachowski Brothers seem bent on making this movie bad.
One of the primary concerns of a movie is acting-a movie is a group of people pretending to be what they are not, caught on camera. Nobody should think of them as true, and no ordinary film maker tries to do so. But a level of realism should be attempted which Revolutions does not achieve. With the exception of Hugo Weaving, who gives a refreshingly professional performance as Agent Smith, and the actor playing the man Smith has 'inhabited' in the real world, the rest of the acting is wooden and unconvincing. Keanu Reeves was never any great shakes on the acting score. If he just keeps his mouth shut and fights, he's O.K., and his one-liners are at least indifferent, but when he is forced to handle anything longer, he starts to break down. Carrie-Anne Moss as Trinity is even worse. Her predictably wooden lines are laughable. One has to wonder...did she go to acting school?
Another thing this movie misses is the masculinity of Morpheus in the original Matrix film. Here he is little more than a leather jacket with a pretentious voice, who isn't much of a leader at all any more, at least in the real world. Trinity, who looked up to him before, seems to just ignore him.
Now as to the philosophy of this film. It is even more ridiculous than the acting. Most of it are labyrinthine phrases that are virtually, if not completely, meaningless. Perhaps their intricacies make them sound deep, but this is nothing more than a gaudy chest with promises of treasure on the outside, which, when opened, is empty. No peace, no security, no meaning can be found in the philosophy of Revolutions. The veiled allusion to the crucifixion, when Agent Smith copies himself into Neo and then is destroyed afterwards, when checked against the Wachowski brother's previous record, is blasphemous, not laudable. Nothing Christian here at all-or if it is intended to be, it is the form of Christianity only and not the real thing. There would have been vastly more fruit here if the Wachowski's were Christians.
Even the action scenes get a bit old by the third installment. The new stunts introduced in an attempt to make it innovative were sometimes rather silly-for example, the men of the Frenchman Merovingian have the ability to walk upside-down on walls. Maybe in some movies it could have been effective, but not in this one. Neo and Agent Smith both have acquired the ability to fly-and once again, in some other films this can be effective. Even a movie like Superman, with much inferior special effects, seems to use this better. Perhaps this is merely my bias against the bad parts of this film-which constitutes pretty much everything-but I'm not sure. I'm not going to see it again to find out.
It does seem a good question: "Why, why, Mr. Anderson, why get up?" Why indeed? He might have done better just to stay in the mud.
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Summary: What a Waste!
Review: I was a huge fan of the first movie. The second came along and although I wasn't thrilled with it, I found it watchable. This final episode in the triligy was too awful to describe.....Boring, trite, utterly uncreative, it was a total waste. Pass on this one. You won't be missing anything.
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Summary: Almost as good as matrix....
Review: Everyone is giving this movie a bad rating? Why? I loved this movie! I thought it was almost as good as the matrix... the storyline rocks and the special effects are amazing!! But then, I'm also a big fan of the matrix series (except reloaded). Matrix Revolutions (i thought) was going to be dumb, boring, and stupid because of what Reloaded was. But I found it to be thrilling, and amazing! The plot was actually going somewhere, Neo had to rescue the people from the machines... so if people say there wasn't a plot, they're wrong and deceitful. :) But anyway, the movie starts out intriguing, and I guess I'll just stop here, and let you watch the movie for yourself (if you haven't). Yes, it is worth buying!! I will probably buy it (and the soundtrack)! anyway, don't give up on this movie! :-D
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Summary: Not bad, not great
Review: Watching both sequels to The Matrix reminds me of something Harlan Ellison said in a review of the first Star Trek theatrical flick. To paraphrase: "It's a good movie, but not a great movie; we needed a great movie." (Shades of Joe Biden at the Clarence Thomas hearings.) As a professional philosopher, I found the quasi-philosophical musings shallow through most of both movies, but, in the end, Neo's "I choose to" (answering Smith's question as to why Neo should fight a seemingly hopeless battle) was a thinking man's knockout punch. The battle sequence in Revolutions (in the Dock) was a slam-bang as well. I was disappointed insofar as the ending seemed like a compromise, leaving the relationship between man and machine a bit muddled (this was foreshadowed, however, in Neo's conversation with Anthony Zerbe in Reloaded), but I suppose, in retrospect, a more simplistic American International Pictures 1950's-style, here-comes-the-army-to-kick-butt ending would have betrayed the series' open-ended questions. I don't know; I'm still thinking about what I saw. Maybe that's the point, eh?
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Summary: The Wachowski brothers are on crack!!!
Review: In fact, it's not even THAT good!!! I went to see in the theater, and there were four people aside from the other two people I was with. Two of them left 1/2 way through the movie, and I would place money that I heard one of the other persons there snoring. About 2/3 towards the end of the movie the other two people and me started making out loud jokes at the movie, and no one cared. In fact one of the guys in the back was even laughing. This has got to be the worst movie ever. I'm suprised it hasn't made it on Mystery Science Theater 3k already. I lost a dollar bet that it would be on that show before it hit store shelves...no not really, but that would've been a quick way to lose a dollar. After watching the first one, you think, "Wow! That Neo guy is awsome! I hope he doesn't die." Well bad news, he does. Almost everyone dies! Trinity, and a bunch of people in that human city place. If you have a choice between Star Trek convention, and seeing this movie, do the right thing and go to the Star Trek convention. If anyone was going to die I was hoping it'd be the 'all knoing Morpheus' but he ends up being just fine, so that sucks. He has got to be one of the most annoying movie characters to date, and that's including the Lion from The Wizard of Oz. Oh yeah, play Dark side of the Moon (Pink Floyd) with WoO to see something cool. Also if you play The Wall (Pink Floyd again) with Alice in Wonderland, it's even cooler. That's a better show than Revolutions. They should've stopped after the first one. Plus that animated thing was the most pointless thing ever. It was dumb and boring. Just give up on the Matrix movies right now.
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Summary: Even "The One" has trouble with sequels
Review: Coming from someone who bought a DVD player just so he could buy the Matrix DVD many years ago, this movie was far departure from the first Matrix. With this installment, it seems the W. Bros became all too wrapped up in their world of Sci-Fi and Fantasy, and forgot where the Matrix came from. The Matrix was born from both the inate human desire to understand human origin, and the need for a good summer movie. It had it all: good story, great special effects, a hot sound track... Matrix Revolutions was born from the need to pack more special effects in than Matrix Reloaded. And that's what it has: special effects galore. Even the kung-fu seemed to be recycled. My real gripe, however, is with the rediculous half-baked character interactions. There are a host of new characters, few of which are really explored in the context of the matrix or the machine world. I give it three stars because it's worth watching... but don't expect to be even remotely as impressed as you were with the first Matrix.
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Summary: The death knell of the Matrix series
Review: I'm sorry--was there a movie here?
I saw a lot of special effects. I saw a helluva lot of special effects. But I'm not sure if I ever saw an actual movie.
Wow. Yikes.
Stick a fork in this once vaunted series.
This lamentable 3rd installment of the Matrix does to this series what the horrible 2nd installment of Robocop (Peter Weller) did to that series, and what the horrible 3rd installment of Aliens (Sigourney Weaver) did to that series: Kills it off completely, finally.
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Summary: Third time around is a bust
Review: Okay, so by now, everyone knows the first Matrix was groundbreaking in many ways and Reloaded had its spectacular moments. With those two "prequels" how can you not go into Revolutions with some expectations? One slim hope would be that the final installment actually tie all the plot lines together and provide some insight into the philosophy that piloted the first two movies. The first movie accomplished this feat in able fashion, the second with some turbulence and the third crash landed while boring a hole into the earth with its ineptitude. I found it hard to watch this movie after the first 20 minutes. I waited until the very end to see something redeeming; nope nothing worth while but a couple of meager scenes. One comment had it right in that I could've cared less about any of the characters and the whole EMP being aboard the ships only was hideously stupid. If the humans didn't make it in the matrix, I'd chalk one up for evolution. They still might not make it based on one of the dumbest endings I have ever seen. Stay away, stay far away because there's nothing for you to see here.
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Summary: Confusing drivel, no chemistery w lead lovers
Review: I wanted badly to enjoy this movie, but it was as confusing as the second one. And the Trinity character had no chemistry with Keanu Reeve's character at all, just blah love plot. Special effects were neat, if a bit overwhelming, the battle scenes in this one made it much better than the second one. Jada Pinkett's character was wasted as was Orpheus' character.
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Summary: An excellent movie
Review: From the amount of negative reviews, I guess the matrix movies are a little too complex for the Adam Sandler, friends, and Jay Leno fans out there. Growing up on a steady diet of lame sitcoms, mindless action and romantic-comedy movies, has robbed a good portion of society of the ability to think creatively. Unless something is explicitly pointed out over and over, they "don't get it". It doesn't change the fact that the Matrix Revolutions is a great movie, and an outstanding end to a few of the best movies of all time.
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