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The Matrix Revolutions (Widescreen Edition)

The Matrix Revolutions (Widescreen Edition)

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Rating: 3 stars
Summary: I can't say 5, and I can't say 1
Review: This is one movie that greatly disappointed me, but, for the majority of it, was still well done.

Why am I unwilling to go above three? Is it because it was not a victorious ending? No. It is because it was treated as a victorious ending, and the previews and posters acted as though there would be a victorious ending. If you ask me, it could have been excellent if one thing had happened only a little differently.

(Note, if you have not seen it, don't read this part.) When Agent Smith went into Neo's body once more, and his real body began shaking, I started to get optimistic. From what was happening, I was almost certain that because Neo was attatched to that robot, when Agent Smith came in, he would ruin all of the robots, and the Matrix itself. If Neo had given his life to do that, it would make perfect sense to me, and been a wonderful ending. However, what they did brought no conclusion, and almost seemed as though it was trying to support a theme that we should be tolerant of evil.

Though I hated the way this ended the series, and I felt the dialogue itself was not all the great (except for a few things Simth said), I could not give it one or two stars because of one thing in particular. The side of the story with Trinity and Neo was wonderful, except for the end. What happened to his sight had some wonderful parallels, and was very effective.

One last thing that I did not like was the battle between Neo and Agent Smith. When they started to simply fly around in the sky, it lost the aspect of the battles in the Matrix movies that I liked, and found most enjoyable. It was always fun to imagine myself dodging bullets, and running up walls. However, when they were battling in the air, it was too difficult for me to imagine what it would feel like. This made the scene far too surreal for me.

In the end, all I can say is that this movie could have easily been wonderful, and one of the best sci-fi trilogies ever. However, in my book, they made the wrong decisions in almost every part of it.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Mr. Aderson Welcome Back.
Review: The quote above was said by Agent Smith at the final confrontation between Neo and Agent Smith. This movie was okay, the beginning was cool where Morpheus and Trinity are searching for Neo who is trapped between the Real World and The Matrix. In the Real World he's sleeping on a hospital bed aboard the Hemmer (at the end of Reloaded the Neb. is destroyed and Morpheus and crew were forced to join another ship). Of corse you've gotta have the ... half-hour long fight scene, I'm getting TIRED of it !! Most of the action takes place in the Real World (which is no where nearly as cool as The Matrix). Probably not worth the ... getting into it, if you can wait and see it for half the price at the second runs theater.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: most disturbing this ending is
Review: Don't be fooled by those giving this trash more than 3 stars, even 3 stars is pushing it. This movie is so bad in so many ways, at times I started to think the Wachowski bros. we're making fun of themselves. I kept asking myself if they we're gonna make a joke of their own work why do it here? Make a spinoff on SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE! Thats what you do. But for the love of god. And then the pacing is so off it was boring everyone to death . Now I loved the original and the second was passible. But this.... The questions just keep coming one after another and few are answered. When the movie was over I was releaved I didn't have to walk out on it. It's funny, I just never saw a couple of geniuses commit suicide in front of a world wide audience.

p.s. To the wachowski brothers
when you decide to direct another movie make sure they put the sign above the title " FROM THE MAKERS OF THE MATRIX TRIOLGY " so I know what movie to avoid.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: AWESOME movie series ever made
Review: First to those who said they didnt like the movie, STOP! If your intellect cannot understand anything that is going on DO NOT blame the movie, blame your mother for giving you a defected brain. If you blieve in God and that He created your brain, Pathetic, obviously my brain from my mother is much better than those created by God.

With that said Revolutions is very intense and action packed, I didn't see the movie on premier so I doubted it when some yet-evolved apes said it was dull. It was not, this movie keeps my attention on throughout the movie. I wanted to watch the movie over and over. Yes there are less fights in the Matrix, but the real world battle was intense.

On a comparison note to that academic winning four letters movie which also has three series. That movie is nothing comparing to the Matrix, The VFX of Matrix is the best of any movies ever made, and it gets better with each series. The story of Matrix is original and refreshing, unlike some movie copy the RPG game story over (which by the way I can tell you the ending by seeing the first of the series), that's lame. I never fell asleep watching Matrix, but that 3 hours long DULL academic winning movie is what I called "counting sheeps"

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Most dissapointing this ending is
Review: Let me start off by saying I viewed the original matrix as the greatest sci fi movie of all time. followd by EMPIRE and RELOADED and BLADE RUNNER however let me state that before they could be viewed as great sci fi movies they had to be good movies

This is a very boring movie. And the pacing strangles what's left.
At times I swear the WACHOWSKI BROS. were making fun of themselves. They screwed this movie up in so many ways they had to be doing it on purpose.
I was trying to figure out if they answered any questions from part 2 then they kept going with the riddles.

If you want a text book lesson on how not to make a movie watch this masterpiece.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: It depends on your POV
Review: I loved Revolutions. Plain and simple, it was an awesome movie. Reloaded, I'll grant, was just a little above mediocre, but it was the middle link, and a necessary one at that - besides, they are ONE MOVIE split into 2.

This movie is an excellent conclusion to one of the best sci-fi trilogies of all time. Get it, love it.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The Matrix Revolutions
Review: I know this word gets thrown around a lot in this country and it loses its true meaning, but the matrix trilogy is truly a phenomenon.

I personally rate the matrix higher above all the SCI-FICTION trilogies including STAR WARS and THE LORD OF THE RINGS.

The critics hailed the first installment of the matrix but went completely down hill on the 2nd and 3rd installments.

The matrix is a trilogy, not a one off film. So I wish people would stop with the 'They should have stopped after the first film.'

The first film had possibly the best special effects the 20th century has ever seen. The 2nd and 3rd film truly brought in the 21st century.

The 3rd film on the other hand I found to be the most anticipated in the world. The Neo VS Smith Showdown and the end of the trilogy was truly a calendar watcher!

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The Matrix Revolutions had dazzling special effects and entertainment.
The only thing I strongly didn't approve of is the ending.
I would like to have seen the hailed destruction of the matrix and the entire human race set free into the real world.

The Neo VS Smith Showdown was what I personally was most anticipating. It was wonderful. I felt my expectations were more than fulfilled, and enjoyed it from beginning to end.

The massive machine VS human showdown in Zion was a huge CGI scene.
The third installment has the most special effects in the trilogy and to what I've seen in all of film history.

Its true the story line was a bit stiff in the 2nd and 3rd film, but its how it had to be played out to fit the trilogy.

I would recommend this film more than any other!
OWN THE TRILOGY!

Truly a 10/10 experience.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: "Alright, so most metaphors don't bear close examination"
Review: Neil the Hippy from British sitcom "The Young Ones" uttered those immortal words, and he could have been explaining what was so awful about the final instalment of the Matrix trilogy.

By not saying much and implying a great deal with a huge amount of style, the thinnest veiled reference to Rene Descartes and some very snappy kung fu sequences, the Wachowski brothers made a certified classic of motion picture history in "The Matrix".

The Matrix Reloaded revealed more, but still mostly just hinted at great depth of learning and profundity. Many - myself included - were sufficiently taken in to declare the film a success, and noted that even if the philosophising was cod, it was a hell of a car chase. Knowing what I now know, I still think reloaded was, on the balance, a successful film.

But the Matrix Revolutions? Oh dear, oh dear. (What follows might contain "spoilers" - but to my mind what the real spoiling here was carried out by L and A Wachowski).

In any case, gone are the clever insinuations (for example that Merovingian might be the devil because his wife is Persephone - as in wife of Hades, lord of the underworld in Greek Mythology) and instead you're thumped between the eyes with the fact (this time, the elevator button to his floor is marked "HELL".)

Gone is any semblance of continuity from the last film. Persephone is back with Merovingian, despite seemingly irreconcileable differences. Merovingian is running some sort of S&M club. The indestructible albino dreadlock dudes are gone. He employs a train man, for no obvious purpose (other than to bamboozle and perplex). There is a confusing sequence with an Indian family who meets Neo while waiting at at underground station.

And there is way, way, way too much pointless fighting. Now I like a good punch-up as much as the next man, but there needs to be some raison d'etre, or at least some outcome, for crying out loud.

In place of the grand car chase we have an action finale that is such a blitzkrieg of overheating pentium processors, gattling guns and exploding squids, that for twenty minutes for all you know your TV might be on the blink (what an irony that so much computing horsepower and intricate programming leads to such an incoherent visual spectacle). And at the end of it the squids just leave as a result of a conversation taking place hundreds of miles away. Dramatically satisfying it ain't.

Finally, the whole intellectual superstructure of the trilogy reveals itself to be so much horse manure. what you thought you understood no longer make sense; the pseudo-religious angle is ditched; central tensions betweeen characters are undermined, characters die and come back to life; characters turn out to be immortal and not susceptible of being killed (which defeats the purpose of fighting, non?) and in any case you really just couldn't care a hill of beans for any of them, least of all Larry Fishburne.

The most pernicious aspect is that by throwing in the philosophical towel, Revolutions undermines the previous instalments of the trilogy which, until you see this one, had for the most part, got away with it.

As they would say in Britain, complete and utter pants.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: First...
Review: First you gotta get unplugged.

All of the commentary and the judgment is from the folks still sleeping in the Matrix.

The Wachowski brother's have made the first myth of the millennium. Who woulda thought it could be done??? Could you have done it???

The Matrix is REAL.

It's revelatory multi-dimensional synchronistic message was sent out to feed generations. Each film is packed with symbolism that has to settle into your deepest levels. A symbolism that will out itself in the DNA of your children and their children.

If mankind survives...

We have been witness to a mystery play in it's first pristene presentation. The opening of the scrolls of a Neuromythos.
There would never have been a sequel to satisfy everyone.

We don't live in the antediluvian "Lord of the Rings" Age !!! That was aeons ago... a romantic species memory.

Like I said: First you gotta get unplugged!!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Much, much better than Reloaded.
Review: Reloaded had incredible action sequences, but terrible, pathetic dialogues and storylines.
Luckily, in Revolutions I found myself inmersed again in what was happening, because Neo stopped being the indestructible super-hero he was in Reloaded -which took away the excitement of his confrontations, as no one could beat him-, and now had to face new dangers.
Anyway, I thought it was a spectacular movie to watch in the theatre, and enjoyed both the battle in Zion and the final confrontation between Neo and Smith (a question: so why could Neo manage to fight hundreds of Smiths in Reloaded and now in Revolutions only one Smith was a threat to him? The Matrix shouldn't have had any sequels in the first place.)
Nowhere near the excitement and excellence of the first Matrix, but an impressive sci-fi movie on its own. And the conclusion was somewhat satisfying, considering the mess the Wachowsky Bros. had done in Reloaded (the MTV Movie Awards Spoof of the Architect scene in Reloaded represents exactly my opinion of that film -wtf was that???).


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