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Summary: Too bad...
Review: I do not recommend at all to buy this movie. Go buy Matrix 1. That was a great movie. This one isn't. I think we need to e-mail staff for matrix 2 & 3 and tell them to ask LOTR's staff on "How To Make a GOOD Trilogy and NOT to DIE trying". Its a pity they didnt know how to continue such a great story.
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Summary: Superb Trilogy
Review: What happens when you bring an intellectual movie trilogy to be viewed by the public? You get a bunch of unintellectual people criticizing the movie for its action, drama, plot, acting, etc. If your looking for a movie trilogy to give its answers on a silver platter this isn't the movie trilogy for you. When your watching the Matrix trilogy you have to pay attention to every detail and to everything that it said. For an example; in Matrix Reloaded (The second movie) a lot of people were complaining about the fact that Zion, that last human city built under ground, had all this technology to have in an underground city but the people that lived there had no shoes. (You specifically notice that people don't have any shoes during the dancing scene, otherwise known as the "rave scene") If you pay close attention you will notice that people are wearing shoes before they walk into the under ground cave in Zion. It doesn't show everyone taking off their shoes. The only scene that shows somebody taking off their shoes is "The Kid," the young boy who admires Neo, The One, as a hero. He takes off his shoes as he is entering the cave. Now, I don't know why everyone takes off their shoes before entering the cave. I figure it's because it's a sign of respect or the cave was considered to be a shrine, a place of gathering. Like the ending of Matrix Revolutions, this movie trilogy leaves you to decide for yourself. Such a small thing like shoes make people decide that this movie trilogy is only worth one star. What a joke. Before watching the Matrix Trilogy remember to keep this in mind:- Agent Smith is Neo's opposite. So if Neo is "The One" then that would mean Agent Smith is "The Negative One" A positive one plus a negative one equal's zero. - The people inside the Matrix with special abilities and powers are programs, they are not real people. The two white ghosts in Matrix Reloaded where part of an older version of the Matrix. These ghosts are programs. Also, the Merovingian and his wife, Persephone, are programs. Persephone is a vampire, hence why she was feeding off Neo's emotions when she kisses him. - Neo's life is the sum of a remainder of an unbalance equation inherent to the programming of the matrix. He is the eventuality of an anomaly. An anomaly is something that deviates from what is standard or normal. Meaning Neo is different from everyone else. He has special coding. - There are patterns in life. The Matrix that you watch throughout the Matrix trilogy is the sixth matrix. Zion has been rebuilt five times. Instead of repeating the pattern, Neo chose to save his love (Trinity). - Life is about choices. - In the first Matrix movie, if Neo did not make the "choice" to fly into Agent Smith coding toward the end of the movie than Agent Smith would have never been able to obtain the ability to replicate himself in Matrix Reloaded. If Agent Smith couldn't replicate himself THAN Neo would have never made peace with machines in Matrix Revolutions. So, if Agent Smith could not replicate himself and become a threat to the machine world than Neo could have never made the "choice" to make peace with the machine world and Zion would have been destroyed for the SIXTH time thus repeating the pattern. But also keep in mind that Neo made the choice to save his love Trinity instead of going back to the source for the salvation of Zion and every other human being in the world in Matrix Reloaded. Because Neo made this choice Zion would have been destroyed for the sixth and final time along with the extinction of the entier human race. - Toward the end of Matrix Revolutions at the point where Neo is laying on the ground in water after the final battle against Agent Smith; Agent Smith says "he has seen this before." The reason he says that is because he obtained the Oracles ability to foresee. If that's the case why didn't Agent Smith foresee his own deletion you ask? Well, once a virus always a virus. - As far as Neo being able to see without his eyes in Matrix Revolutions, that's for you to decide. Well that's it. I'm not going to explain all the details of this superb trilogy. This is most definitely a five star movie plus more. Stop bad mouthing such a good trilogy folks. Don't give it one star because you don't understand it thus subduing criticism in other area's such as acting, action, drama, the plot, etc.
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Summary: Right Smack in the middle
Review: The Matrix Trilogy is probably the most effects-laden set of movies I've ever seen. It is also a very interesting and psychological movie as well as a sci-fi action-packed thrill fest. The Wachowski's have masterfully blended philosophy and the purpose of life into a modern/futuristic movie that is not too heavy and pulse-pounding nor is it boring and hard to understand. They set the bar higher with the first movie and incredibly only their second film. Then, The Matrix Reloaded blasted into theaters with much anticipation and much disappointment. The Wachowski's revealed themselves to not be perfect filmmakers nor storytellers, but they make up for their mistakes in Revolutions, which, despite many critics' and fans' points of view, was more satisfying and entertaining than I thought it would be. The plot's still the same: Humans and Machines are about to collide in a massive war, and Neo's the only one who can stop them, despite others' opinions. The W's don't bother with unnecessary reactions to events, which makes the beginning of the film feel somewhat skeletal and undeveloped. It's almost as if they only have the scenes to give their action meaning. But the Bros. kept me watching the film due to the Mobil Ave. train station scene, which is itself a whole philosophy part and comical as well as meaningful. The real parts of the film are the Zion H Vs. M battle, and the finale between Smith and Neo. The Zion battle was okay. It was a little drawn out and formulaic, but the effects once again blew me away. But the best was the Smith and Neo battle. I was afraid that the W's might make it twice as long as the fight in Reloaded, but thank God, they didn't allow it to be too long or short, just the right kind of climax. The effects were terrific, however the characters were at times a little cartoonish and stretchy. In fact, one particular scene where Smith's face is pounded by Neo's fist was more hilarious than amazing. But the W's wrapped it up nicely and cleverly, yet they left a tiny hole through which the story would be continued.
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Summary: My Review Version 2.0
Review: Okay, here's the thing. One's impression of a film upon leaving the theater is sometimes different from the film's effect in the home video format.
I wrote a review in this space before getting the DVD and properly refreshing my memory. Also, there were some things I left out in the first place that still need to be said.
Mainly, it becomes increasingly clear that Revolutions is a better film than Reloaded in some ways ( however, the dialogue is noticeably more clunky in parts of Revolutions ).
Also, the DVD itself is an improvement. Why, you ask? Well, this time, nobody decided to add an extraneous green color to the print and then re-color the characters' faces with faux flesh tones. If you want the Matrix to look absurdly green ( because otherwise airheads can't follow the story ) there's a proper way to do it: the way it was done in films 1 and 3.
One thing I forgot to mention before: the soundtrack, which is excellent ( even if it seems to copy LOTR's music in a certain spot ). Also, as others have stated, the fact that this film wasn't even NOMINATED for the special-effects Academy Award is a complete travesty. The defense-of-Zion scene alone, not to mention "Deus Ex Machina" (please!) and the "flame vision" effect, are some of the best graphics in the trilogy and really deserved some kind of commendation. But here's the problem. Lots of people have a really short attention span and live primarily in the moment. Hence the Warhol "15 min. of fame" idea: when the lemming-like masses have moved on to the next big thing, it's over. By releasing two films in the same 7 months, the Matrix shop actually caused people ( myself excluded ) to tune them out. When Oscar nomination time rolled around, the Matrix had been forgotten, and it was time ( apparently ) to give all the awards to ROTK in order to atone for dissing Fellowship in 2002. Because, of course, all those people have now figured out that LOTR is good, whereas if they caught you reading those books anytime before 2001, you were labeled a dork. So what do they really know, those lemmings? How to be a lemming. THAT'S IT.
Ultimately, in the future, the greatness of the Matrix films will still be understood, and the question of "who won what Hollywood award" will be literally trivial.
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Summary: CONFUSING MESS
Review: There is a scene in The Matrix: Revolutions where Neo is speaking to the Oracle and says, "Where are we going? Where does it end?" This line sums up my feeling about the final installment of the Matrix trilogy. What started out as one of the most innovative ideas in movie history with special effects that revolutionized the industry, finally collapsed under its own weight. Let's not kid ourselves, the first Matrix, while eye-popping, was not terrible original or deep when it came to storyline. The man versus machine plot has been done many times before. But the sort of William Gibson cyberspace stuff was a nice addition. By the third movie though it degenerates into a standard action movie with the bulk of it surrounding the last city of humans, Zion, defending itself against a horde of machines. In fact, the films star, Keanu Reaves is basically a co-star in this movie, disappearing from the screen for nearly an hour during this huge battle for Zion. Oh, it still looks great with Zion using battle Mechs to battle the Sentinels as they finally break into Zion. But the action just goes overboard and lasts way too long. The Battle of Helms Deep in the Two Towers did not last this long. I will make another Lord of the Rings reference; Even with multiple characters off doing multiple things, Lord of the Rings masterfully switched back and forth between them and never let you forget about them as is the case with Matrix: Revolutions. When we finally do return to Neo he makes his way to the city of machines and comes to an agreement with the source to destroy the rogue "agent Smith" and have a peace treaty.
Naturally we are treated to yet another battle between Smith and Neo. This makes what? 4 times? 5 times? 6 Times? I've lost count. So finally Neo triumphs but how? What the heck just happened? Beats the hell out of me. If someone has a good theory please post it here as I am totally clueless. I'm really sorry that the trilogy ended on such a sour note. Unfortunately all the bad reviews it received upon release were warranted.
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Summary: Smell the wreckage
Review: In the words of one critic: they should have left it at one. Such words resonated loudly whilst struggling to make it through my rented DVD of Revolutions. Where Reloaded was little more than a nightmarishly dull philosophical lecture, Revolutions is the video game to end all video games. An insane cacophony of digital animation, Revolutions abandons the original premise of "what is real" even further than Reloaded, trading it in for an incomprehensible plot and groan-inducing dialogue. Everything feels tired, redundant. The action borders on self-parody. But there are other, serious, problems: a laughably Christ-like Keanu Reeves must act this time. And you can tell when he tries. You find yourself giggling. Carrie-Ann Moss and Larry Fishburne are merely shadows. And poor Monica Belluci. So beautiful, so worthless. Indeed, there are many characters in this film that have no importance (What was up those Indians in the beginning?) The entire film was filled with characters I hated, wishing that the Matrix would win the fight and kill off the sad, wretched remains of humanity, incinerating Zion, that human sewer. But alas the Matrix and its army of Evil White Men do not destroy the dusky heroes. Indeed, perhaps the films biggest disaster was the end. You've got to be kidding. I'll just say that it was like watching a whale go through massive labor pains - only to give birth to a sardine. In the end, I must thank the Wachowski Bros.: they made me a huge fan of the first Matrix; something I didn't think was possible.
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Summary: Even better on DVD!
Review: Partly because it's now possible to watch the entire trilogy and keep track of what's going on, pausing and replaying as needed to catch all the little things. (You'll never run out. This is _Finnegans Wake_ for cybergeeks.) At any rate the quality of the DVD release is terrific, sound and video both. (The 'extras' are nice too, but I generally don't buy DVDs because of that stuff myself.) I said last November, and I say again, that the critics (and viewers) who thought the trilogy declined in quality after the first movie are very much mistaken. I think they just didn't grok what the first movie was about and therefore had inappropriate expectations about the latter two. For the record, the theme of the entire trilogy is the relationship between humans and machines/computers/programs -- _not_ 'What is real?'. That question was an important subtheme in the first movie, but it was _only_ a subtheme. Nor does the philosophical stuff take a back seat to the action in _Revolutions_. It's still there, although there are a couple of places where you may have to dig a litter harder to find it. Nor is the ending 'Hollywood'. The humans aren't the 'good guys' and the machines aren't the 'bad guys'; the resolution at the conclusion of the trilogy involves the next step in the symbiotic evolution of _both_ 'sides', and not everybody from either side will be going along. Nor, despite all the philosophical stuff, is the purpose of the trilogy to take or expound a philosophical position. This series is a huge, cosmic-scale exercise in mythmaking. The Wachowskis want to tell a _really cool story_ -- the story of a new hero named Neo. _Everything_ else is in the service of this story. Beyond that, I ain't gonna tell you a thing. Watch the movie(s) carefully and figure it out for yourself. The Wachowskis have kept the religious, philosophical, and other references coming right up until the spectactular finish, and they've deliberately left some things ambiguous and open-ended. (Probably not as many as you think, though.) Matrix 7.0 will be whatever the users make of it. But if you'd like to be one of the users, watch these films quickly; it's almost impossible to free a mind after a certain age.
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Summary: the matrix- revolting
Review: The final installment of this trilogy is proof that cgi does not a movie make. Plenty of mindless action scenes for you fake-fight fans, lots of empty dialogue for you drama fans- they tried to cover all the bases and succeded in covering none. This movie did evoke some reaction out of me- i was yawning the whole time.
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Summary: What a stinker.
Review: I wonder when they realized they didn't have any more plot? This movie totally stunk. It was actually boring, which is hard given all the special effects at their diposal. Damn, what a disappointment. Seriously, if you loved the matrix, don't see it... it will be better this way trust me.
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Summary: A Matrix of Endless Dimensions
Review: The Matrix Revolutions fulfilled all my expectations as a non-conclusion to this brilliant postmodernist trilogy. It is actually quite unbelievable that a Hollywood studio could actually have produced such a brilliant movie. In fact the self congratulatory web of fluff productions, pandering critics and mindless movie going drones that is corporate American cinema very rarely lets anything like this slip through. This move is brilliant on so many levels and this is difficult to convey in words. People should experience the movie and all its 'petit ecrits' themselves. However I can reveal that the visual language of the Wachowskis is absolutely brilliant in this film and is in fact reminiscent of the great Fritz Lang at his best. However I can understand the backlash this movie has created since the multicultural and nonhierarchical philosophy of the Matrix movies threatens, like all postmodernism, the patriarchal war mongering WASP society's enslavement of the world.
It is also clear that the ability to read and connect signs is rapidly diminishing, at least in the Western World. Most reviewers, even the professional ones, seem to have grasped only a insignificant portion of the multitudes of visual signs floating around in this movie. I think the trilogy would actually have been better understood a hundred years ago despite all its postmodernism.
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