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Summary: not a critic
Review: I don't think anything justifies the awful reviews people gave this movie. I've seen it about 4 times and I don't see what's so wrong with it. Fortunately, I'm not a person who much cares what the public thinks. I admit this movie isn't exactly Citizen Kane but I didn't expect it to be the best movie I'd ever seen. I just think it was a well thought-out, action-packed finale with visual effects that were the best anyone today is capable of. Until I saw the special features I wasn't sure what was real and what wasn't. And considering all the complete pieces of crap that get made every year in hollywood, I hardly think it's fair to give this movie one star. And don't talk to me about bad movies. I have a sister who's into horror movies.
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Summary: Cinematic excrement.
Review: Watching this is equivalent to being served my own excrement on a dinner plate. Cold. And a few days old.
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Summary: Don't Waste Your Time
Review: Enjoyed the first one so much I eagerly awaited the second. The second left me feeling disappointed and blue because it sucked. The third made me feel better because it was so lame that I kept laughing until the end. The only good parts of the third was the key master and the oracle's protector. The directors went 'Hollywood,' as we like to say in the industry.
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Summary: Very well done
Review: That it didn't appeal to the minority of "Ahnold-shoot-em-up-blow-wm-up" fans is no real loss. It's a good movie that sort of "wraps up" without "ending" the story. Don't look for all the heroes to ride off into the sunset, and don't look for geeky, campy one-liners. This is actually the more cerebral of the movies to date. Bueno.
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Summary: Matrix : No Resolutions
Review: If you buy this DVD, you deserve what you get: a bad anime. The Matrix was brilliant, Reloaded was okay, kind of pushing it, but this...this was anime, pure and simple.
The Wachowski brothers forgot what made the first movie such a hit: the philisophical and religious references. They used up the major ones in the Matrix, the interesting but unneeded ones in Reloaded, and had no soul left for Revolutions. So what is left is an hour and a half long fight scene that doesn't make sense. Apparently, when it comes to the final showdown between man and machine, the machines stop fighting and fly around in a figure-eight pattern, letting a measely pack of bipedal robots shoot at them for what feels like hours. And why attack robots don't have long-range weapons is beyond me. And Smith, the personification of a computer virus, doesn't behave like one. Hey, Smith! Neo can take on twenty of you at once, unscathed! Why in god's name are you even trying to fight him one-on-one?! Dramatic effect.
Bad anime, for sure.
But it goes beyond that. I'm sorry, people, but computers are incapable of actual emotion. Sure, you can simulate it all you want via software, but to have actual emotion, you need an electro-chemical biological machine. In other words, a brain. An actual lump of grey-pink flesh. This scientific fact makes the ending of Revolutions fall apart, since it's based on computers being capable of honor.The promise the Architect makes? It has no reason to keep it. With Neo dead (or at least incapacitated), it can keep the human race in its fold for as long as it feels like it. And if Neo's not dead, then that would mean Smith is still running loose, since they do exist because of one another. So this is, in effect, really titled The Matrix : No Resolutions.
But sorry if I've ruined the ending. Frankly, there's not much there. If you want anime, save your fifteen bucks and go buy Street Fighter XXI or whatever and satisfy you need for bad acting and plotlines that serve soley to move on to the next painful duel scene.
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Summary: No fundamentals
Review: This is roughly the 800th(!) review of REVOLUTIONS.
I won't bother hashing over details that have been scoured over so many times. I'm just trying to clarify to the potential viewer, the criteria of the people who loved or hated this movie. Of course this includes my critereia. You can decide which criteria guides your viewing choices. A common theme seems emerge from the pro/con camps. These are my generic interpretation of the two types of review. CON-I loved the first movie. The things that made it special were increasingly absent from the sequels. I thought maybe "Revolutions" could make sense of the overly dense plot created by "Reloaded" and redeem the trilogy. It couldn't. The spectacles rang hollow, the actors were bad at saying their bad lines, and the end was wimpy and nonsensical. PRO-People shouldn't have gone to see the sequels with preconceptions and unreasonable expectations. Sequels rarely meet them. The Bros. W are geniuses and the detractors are ignorant. Instead bowing to the mob, the Bros. W wove an intricate fabric of philosophical themes and action. The ending was socially enlightened rather than blockbuster predictable. If you watch the movie carefully or often enough, you will catch the explanations for Neo's powers and make sense of the ending. The thing the PRO camp seems to overlook is a lot of the detractors were long familiar with the themes of this trilogy. This familiarity fostered annoyance with philosophy-speak rather than philosophy-do. Monologue in place of dialogue and deed is a trait usually attributed to the novice screenwriter. These detractors didn't go to the theater for extended, yet shallow lectures, even shallower characters, and gratuitous action. They came to witness an intelligent well told, highly dramatic story. That was the appeal of the first film; the synergy of ideas, (purposeful) cutting edge effects with (purposeful) action, and strong fundamental storytelling (relatable characters, pace, dynamics, seamless narrative, etc.). There are plenty of successful sequels that meet or exceed expectations. This kind of synergy of strong fundamentals is what is common among them.
This synergy is what is heartbreakingly absent from the Matrix sequels. If you have classic fundamental cinematic storytelling criteria (standards of dialogue, seamless narrative etc.) for any film you view, you may have no tolerence for the Matrix sequels. If you think these fundamentals translate to cliché, if you're looking for a mythology platform that throws a lot of ideas your way, then you might enjoy the Matrix sequels.
If you enjoy the exercise of repeatedly analyzing a bunch of ideas and interpreting fleeting plot clues, you might enjoy the Matrix sequels.
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Summary: the worst matrix ever
Review: Wow this movie blows! You know it's bad when the cover looks like a damn video game. The battles scenes were soooooo lame, it was funny especially when that commander guy kept on yelling "GOD DAMNIT!" That was so funny this movie is so dumb it's funny. I like the other two movies they were tight, the highway scene on the second one was bad ass. But there is no tight fighting scene in this movie, even the final "showdown" was dumb, more of a "let down" if you ask me. So here's the verdict, the movie sucks!
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Summary: FOR THOSE WHO LOVE THIS MOVIE 2
Review: NEO
Where am I? SATI
A train station. NEO
Oh. (PUT ACTION SCENE HERE) NEO
How am I all powerfull oracle? ORACLE
You know why. NEO
How can I stop the machines? ORACLE
You tell me. NEO
Oh it is because I am genectically altered by the machines and the source and myself are related. Thank you miss oracle you explained alot. ORACLE
No problem Neo glad I could help. (PUT LONGER ACTION SCENE HERE)
(KILL OFF TWO BELOVED CHARACTERS HERE TO WAKE UP AUDIENCE) SATI
What will happen now oracle? ORACLE
We will go to the........................
THE END AUDIENCE
What the f*#$ was that?
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Summary: The Matrix was never about Zion
Review: Having given the theatrical release of this movie 1 star, after viewing the DVD I can not say that my impressions have changed that much. In fact I can now clearly see why I did not like Revolutions and why many others did not like it either. The central problem with Revolutions is that bit-part actors and actresses are given leading roles that are immensely time consuming. So much so that everyone who made the first Matrix so good have literally been given a backseat to Niobi's driving skills or a token Kid that saves the day. Forget Morpheus's slick philosophical statements while dressed in black. Here he just wears a woolly jumper and sits around wondering just what is going on. Imagine if Darth Vader, Luke Skywalker, Han Solo and Princess Lea where replaced at the end of the trilogy with Jabba the Hut, a Jawa, a Storm Trooper and an Ewok made the central focus characters? Would you like that? Well this is EXACTLY what Revolutions does! Zion is really what has gone wrong here. By expanding the depth of the Matrix story the filmmakers have missed the mark of what made the first Matrix so good and this is a problem for the audience. In short, and for all intensive purposes, Revolutions does not resemble the original movie in any way shape or form. In fact the only thing that Revolutions has in common with the original film is the characters. Now we have been introduced to a battle between the machines and Zion - in an environment where Neo will not be found... or Morpheus ... or Trinity... or Agent Smith. This battle sequence is the BIGGEST part of the film. So for thirty odd minutes or so you will certainly NOT be watching any form of the Matrix... but heck this was never about the Matrix in the first place. Reloaded and Revolutions where designed to move between plot banality and theme-park type experiences WITHOUT the metaphysical 'thought' and 'dialogue' that made the original Matrix what it was. You are paying to see a empty spectacle - nothing more, nothing less. Those who have done their homework will realize that the filmmakers have forgotten a lot and provided us with simple excuses so that they can bring on the next big special effects scene. Like I said already NEW CHARACTERS are introduced that serve very little function and are forgotten about just as quick. The Trainman appears as an important character and then... disappears. His whole scene at the start of the movie with Neo served absolutely NO PURPOSE. The Architect materializes briefly at the end for a few lines to try and consolidate everything. Persephone is back again with the Merovingian as if nothing is wrong after her releasing the Keymaker in Reloaded. The Twins who disappeared in Reloaded are obviously vaporized, because they are not here. What happens to Seraph? What happened to the Merovingian? They are here in Revolutions but don't expect they actually play an important role in much because whatever they say or do means nothing by the time the end credits role and here is also another problem. The ENDING of the original Matrix is so much better than Revolutions that the sequels seem pointless. But there we really have summed it up. This is a money making high budget sci-fi movie, end of story. People are going to watch it so why not experiment? Sadly that experiment does not pay off simply because it breaks too many rules... rules that the original Matrix created for us. The original Matrix was a high like no other. Reloaded was satisfactory and at least had some knockout action sequences with elements that where in the first Matrix and a few extra scenes here and there to help develop the story around Zion. Okay so the dance scene at the start was totally out of place but in Reloaded as soon as Neo met the Oracle it was the Matrix rocking like you mother from start to finish. Revolutions is NOTHING like Reloaded. Like we said questions that where created in Reloaded are left unanswered. What is it with the Indian family who take up almost fifteen minutes talking at the start of the film? The copout for replacing the Oracle with a new actress is explained in the worst possible way..... AND WHOEVER WROTE THE SCREENPLAY DIALOGUE SHOULD HAVE HIS PAYCHECK REVOKED! What a cliche driven script! You will not believe the stereotype dialogue on display here! Watch Neo stand for a few minutes in stupidity as Bane, who sounds, talks and moves just like Agent Smith, almost has to tell Neo who he is before the penny drops with our savior character! Bill and Ted where on the screen for a few moments there. Sssshesshhh..... The bottom line here is that this film is a disaster. Even if it where like Reloaded it would have been an acceptable movie but it seems almost like some sort of Direct to Video type release on a big budget. It is very hard to describe what an utter disappointment this film was. It could possibly be one of worst mega-budget pictures ever made. Fans will feel downright conned. Those who are looking for popcorn fodder will probably find it okay-ish entertainment but if we wanted to watch okay-ish entertainment we would hope to find that somewhere else other than in one of the most expensive sci-fi films ever made!!!!! Thank God that the Lord of the Rings is there to redeem our faith in high-concept large budget fantasy films. Revolutions is a bad stain on the Matrix series - if not trilogies as a whole. As a fan I have voiced my disapproval, it is little more than I can do, but what do they care laughing all the way to the bank???
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Summary: Why do critics downplay the Matrix Triology??
Review: Why do the critics downplay the Matrix trilogy. I do admit that while watching the second and third parts, it did seem tedious and I was waiting for the real action but after watching it a few times and understanding the endings, I must say it was really a great series. Why does everyone have to bash it? It had some great action scenes, and if you pay attention the story is very interesting. Watch it a few more times, and trust me, you'll appreciate it much more.
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