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Summary: hate it? THEN YOU DON'T GET IT!
Review: This is a truly brilliant movie. Yet like the other two matrix movies, it's like its predecessors but also very unlike. If you expect Matrix reloaded again then you aren't going to get it. This movie diverges from that path to some extent. At it's core (source?) this movie is about balancing an equation: the embodiment on love on one hand and the embodiment of hate on the other, an ensuring the equation is left in a blanced state. And that unique capacity that some of we humans have to act in such a selfless manner to risk our own lives for the ones we love. This isn't a typical hollywood ending movie. Superifically There is no nice neat little parcel, yet on deeper levels there is resolution, based on the idea of revolution (as in both turning- synchonicity- and change). These are focused within the moments of epiphany that Neo has. Follow the sequence and you see the purpose, the cause and the effect. And this i what this movie turns about. Those moments of understanding, clarity and choice. Don't go and watch this movie with a closed mind. And don't expect a superficial ending. Reloaded should have prepared you for the realization that you have to earn these movies, not have them spoon fed to you in nice little already-chewed digestable peices. As I call this review: if you hate this movie then you don't get it, because it is a truly worthy conclusion, if you understand it- perhaps the dislike comes from the fact that it isn't the movie that many sought: a rah-rah obvious victory. Life is never that clear cut, so neither is this movie. But it is, if you step away from your preconceptions. Then you'll find it is truly 'correct' in the way that it becomes in the end and what becomes of it all. There are moments in this movie that are truly enormously breathtaking, overwhleming and immensly brilliant. At times it made me feel as if I were watching the beginning of Saving Private Ryan, just for the shear crushing enormity of the task before them. Others are truly intimate and emotionally honest. This is a truly fine movie. Enjoy.
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Summary: The Irrelevance of The Matrix Revolutions
Review: Matrix devotees have given it an enthusiastic thumbs-up. Critics have trashed it soundly. I'm in the middle, but leaning more towards disappointment than displeasure. Straight out of an episode of General Hospital, Matrix III picks up with our hero in a coma with his sobbing girlfriend by his side. And, like the soaps, we all know our hero isn't really dead, just resting - - that is, in some interdimensional train station that's somewhere between the Real World and the Matrix World. Try explaining this one. Well unfortunately they do, for about ten minutes. None of this explanation has any relevance to the rest of the movie, but it sounds really deep and spiritual. Also, we're introduced to an irrelevant "cute kid" character, an apparent necessity in all science-fiction stories. At least it's not an Ewok. The irrelevance continues! In the second installment we had the "Keymaker." Now we have to find and do battle with the "Trainman" Who's next, Toilet Plunger Man? Cue back to Morpheus and Trinity, paying a special visit to The Oracle - - wait, that's not her! The late Gloria Foster's character was replaced with Mary Alice. Most moviegoers were already aware of this, but we're still subjected to another rambling, nonsensical, and yes, irrelevant explanation regarding choice and regret. Couldn't you have just said it was the candy and cigarettes? From here, Morpheus, Trinity and Seraph plan a daring rescue in (where else?) a leather-clad fetish bar so they can bargain for Neo's life with The Merovingian. You remember this guy, don't you? Frenchy, with hot wife who droned on and on about causality? Turns out the entire speech was irrelevant to the movie, but at least he can throw a cool party. Hey, wait a minute? Wasn't Mrs. Hot Wife mad at him for cheating on her? Didn't Frenchy say something along the lines of "that woman will be the death of me?" Could have been an interesting plot twist, but I guess it was all... do I need to say it? Back at the train station, Keanu Reeves has his only memorable line. It's a four-letter word, but it's not "Whoa." Trinity shows up and we endure the slo-mo reunion of Neo in his priestly garb and Trinity in her kinky latex. My brain shuts off. I couldn't bring myself to write a review of the second film because of the loose ends. Any criticism I had of the movie could easily be rebuffed with a simple, "It'll be answered in the final installment." Well, guess what? They weren't. None! So many interesting storylines were ignored, it'll spoil the movie if I list them in detail. What I can say is this movie is a high-tech ripoff of obscure books and movies that, for all its espousing, fails to answer even its own questions. Yes, the religious allegory is apparent, but it's not like a lot of thought went into it. Instead, it's more along the lines of the Wachowski's sitting around saying, "Okay, let's throw in a Zen quote here, steal Frank Herbert's 'blind messiah' here, then we can recreate the battle scene in Superman II." Finally, a lot of mention was made of the animated DVD, The Animatrix and the videogame Enter the Matrix being tied into the Matrix story. After viewing both, I can say that the additional footage is largely (you guessed it!) irrelevant. The one shining compliment I can heap on this movie is Hugo Weaving's Agent Smith. For a guy forced to wear the same clothes and drone in a monotone, he plays it to the hilt and Agent Smith will go down as one of the greatest movie characters since Clint Eastwood's "Dirty Harry." Aside from this, I left the theater feeling like I just watched my kid brother play the world's most expensive video-game for the last two hours, except videogames have a more satisfying conclusion.
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Summary: I saw it TWICE- Just Fantastic!
Review: This movie is soooo deep and I am glad that I saw it twice, because I really missed some things the first time. Matrix Revolution brings together the pieces you wonder about. The young 16 year old who jumps off the building in Animatrix- is the one who takes the risk and opens the gate during the fight scene with the sentinels. Niaobe shows us the reason why in Enter the Matrix she is the best pilot in town. If it wasn't for Morpheus persistence Neo would never achieve what he has achieved in this movie- PEACE. Now the deepness of the movie. The machines teaching the humans a lesson on love, war, and peace. And given them a choice between good and evil. Machines has become MORE HUMAN than US. The message is clear. We need to stop our self destruction and stop trying to segregate and separate each other and come to a place of respect and peace. I am so pleased with this movie and I cannot wait until it comes out on DVD. If you're expecting Matrix moves...then forget it people, although you get something here and there...this movie is for those of who get the MESSAGE and want more. I hope they come out with more or better yet a SERIES! I haven't seen such good work in such a long time. Oh btw for those of you questioning the Oracle- the one who played her in the other two movies died in real life from diabetes. And I loved how the honored her for her work and explained the changed. I recommend this movie to everyone- if you can sit back and just get the MESSAGE! PEACE!!
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Summary: the final chapter
Review: This film met my expectations.It didn't play major mind games
if it is viewed from the heart.The scenes with Trinity and Neo where nice. Overall the story unfolds faster than Reloaded.
Yet the action wasn't as exciting as the freeway scene in the last part.Thank you directors for the greatest story ever told.
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Summary: Revolutions revolved around cliches
Review: The first Matrix movie, surely the movie that defines this era of stylized action filmmaking, was brilliant. The various storytelling elements of that first movie, on further inspection, were a bit cliched. The thing is, it had enough originality and, more importantly, blind passion and exuberance to make us forget that, at its basic level, this is the same story that's been told countless times (guess we all just have a fascination with the "One" concept, no matter if the hero's name is Neo, Frodo, Buffy, or the story told in a little book called the Bible). Watching Reloaded made me think that The Wachowski Brothers really had no material for a follow-up to the first movie, and Revolutions confirms that doubt. Revolutions is really just an above-average sci-fi flick with the Matrix name attached to it. It amazes me that many people use the special effects factor to defend the movie. "The effects were great!" Well, duh. Great action scenes and beautiful special effects should be expected from this movie. People like annoying executive producer Joel Silver always talk about how the effects in the Matrix movies can never be duplicated and yada yada yada. Look, at a certain point, technical prowess is something we stop caring about. So what if everyone copied bullet-time? Bullet-time wasn't the reason we all loved the first movie, especially when, arguably, the best scene in the film was two actors in front of a white screen with a TV and couch. I, for one, would've been fine if the effects of the first Matrix were used in the two sequels in exchange for, oh let's say, a better story. Like I said, Revolutions is an above-average sci-fi flick. But above-average isn't good enough. Our expectations were all probably a little bit high, but so what? They should be. Saying that our expectations were too high is, in effect, saying that we should all throw the first movie out the window. "You're allowed to like the first movie, but don't base anything off of it." We might as well forget the names of the characters. To me, Revolutions is also the movie that gives us our final opinion on Reloaded. Reloaded was dense, a bit long, and a little confusing, but was actually a pretty good movie, especially if you give it a second or third viewing. Had this final installment resolved the questions posed in Reloaded, it would have made that movie better as well. But because Revolutions so effortlessly pretends that the events of Reloaded didn't even happen, save an annoying French character with a goofy name in a movie that's full of goofy names, that second installment is devalued to "a big hunk of action with one great scene involving the Architect and an unneeded 20-minute Rap video called Zion." The film plays like a successful rock band counting the platinum awards for its new album before they start writing any songs, and the once semi-cool-if-ultimately-unimportant dialogue now borders on self-parody. There is a bit of dialogue in this movie where the audience actually started chuckling. Morpheus' speech in Reloaded was off-key, but it was at least serviceable. The Wachowskis might as well have deferred the scripting to hardcore fans and the directing duties to Ang Lee or, heck, even Peter Jackson. In the end, I am disappointed because there were just so many incredible possibilities for these two sequels. Even a few of the predictions made by my friends after walking out of the second movie, none of them particularly hardcore sci-fi fans, were more interesting. These movies could have truly been spectacular in all facets, not just "hey there's a hundred Smiths on screen" or "I guess Keanu can kinda act...sorta." The Wachowskis attempted to focus these two movies more on the emotions of individuals and not the enormity of the first film. That's perfectly fine, if it had been done well. They make us care about these characters without giving us a reason to. Even a seemingly lock-for-emotional-impact scene in Revolutions was handled awkwardly with too much ironic detachment and not nearly enough, well, emotion. And here I thought that George Lucas was the only director with the ability to mess up a love story that seemed impossible of ruin. The once ultra-cool Morpheus is not only the puppy dog of Neo, but apparently the Fresh Prince's wife as well. And Trinity, once a strong character, is now the Princess always being captured by King Koopa. I thought Super Mario was a plumber, not a cop who stopped a speeding bus from exploding. The fact that Neo is Superman-Jesus takes these two integral characters completely out of the action. At least the admittedly well-crafted set pieces of Reloaded made me say "whoa" once or twice. Revolutions just makes me wanna circle my calendar for the day The Return Of The King is released.
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Summary: Am I Watching The Aliens?
Review: This movie is boring. I feel like I am watching Aliens and Superman. I feel like that they are cutting some sences from Aliens and pasting them here and there... cutting some more from Superman and pasting them over there. Story is not good at all. The movie only mentions the philosophical issues brought up by the second movie. It doesn't really discuss what it is so special about these issues. Most of the time, the movie only mentions the wording. There is no meaning behind the wording. IMO, the second and the third movies switches the focus to Agent Smith. I think they should have more dialogs for Agent Smith rather to just make him punch and punch and punch something all the time everytime I see him show up in the movie. Maybe this is why the movie is so boring. There is nothing to tell regarding The One and his followers anymore. And the contents from the special effects are 10-20 years old. (i.e. you punch me, I punch you back. There is nothing special about this.)
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Summary: The Critics are Dead Wrong About This One
Review: I'm freshly back from seeing the movie and I am so shocked about all of the negative reviews. I did not see Matrix Reloaded because of the reviews, but rented it last week and realized I had made a big mistake. Matrix Revolutions is an emotional roller coaster that will keep you one the edge of the seat and not to give it all away, but the ending is takes a strange twist and is not some hokey Trinity and Neo living happily ever after crap. The negative critics pretty much had it right for the Phantom Menace, etc., but they are totally out to lunch on this one. I just don't know where they are coming from. It's a blast! It is an incredible movie and all in all the best of the Matrix series. Do your self a favor and see this with the big screen and surrond sound. Love is the answer.
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Summary: Oh well...
Review: With movies like this I have just learned that more people will have negative things to say then positive. Critics are worthless to begin with and even slammed the original Star Wars movies back in the day. The only opinion I can give is my own and I truly loved Matrix: Revolutions. A lot of people say the philosophy is childish but after they say that their reasons only show that the concept is over their heads. A big problem is that most people like things tied up and ended. They don't like "questions", they don't like to think. They like things laid out simply for them. Revolutions does not end how you might like it to, but if it had ended any other way I would have been dissapointed. People wonder why we went thru 3 movies to have a tie? Well peace is a myth, it does not last forever, it is not in our nature. Empires come and go, the Matrix is just an extension of human behavior. Faith is what gets you thru and just as in real life, you will always have more questions then answers.
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Summary: Yuen Woo-Ping where were you???
Review: Man, after the Matrix Reloaded I thought that this movie was going to have a hard time topping it, becuase of all the great fight sequences. Yuen Woo Ping was the fight choreographer for the first two films and Reloaded was AWESOME! But Mr. Yuen could have taken this one off, there was only 1 fight scene and that was at the end and it kind of sucked because they just flew around. You throw in a complicated and confusing story and you come up with: DISAPOINTMENT. I'm sorry, but I sure expected more from this movie. I knew it would have been impossible to top Reloaded, but they could have at least tried. This movie manages three stars based solely on the first two movies. This movie on its merits only deserves one maybe two.
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Summary: Matrix III - An unsatisfying end that could have been Great!
Review: Mmmm. Loved the fight scenes. The effects were great, as per usual but I was disappointed with the ending. The main characters seem to lose everything to save Zion. We are not sure if Smith is really gone and the show ends with what seems like a stand off between the machines and the humans. It seems that we need another movie to fix all this. Morpheus was watered down to a co-pilot. Why was Jada Pinket needed in the role of "super-pilot"? Morpheus was the Man! He was a key target of the machines, the carrier of the faith and the one to find Neo! He deserves better. He should have done the break-neck flying to save Zion. (By the way with all the defensive hardware that Zion had you might have though that a 1,000 EMP's would have been the ideal thing to have - slight plot boo-boo)
MATRIX III - REVISITED!
Here is my way to handle Matrix III. Keep Jada at the love interest level for Morpheus (capable but not too much screen time). Have the real gang, Morpheus, Trinity and Neo go up against the machines and Smith. The Zion gang would be holding out with the EMP weapons but running out of time against the hoards. Neo and crew must stop the machines! But Smith is in the way, he too want to smash Zion but will let the main computer have its way and do his work before taking out the machine. He just has to keep some of these humans at bay. And he wants Neo! Neo and Smith duke it out while Trinity and Morpheus sabotage the central computer. Neo gets in trouble with Smith, Trinity saves him but gets taken down by Smith. Neo blows a gasket, gets into super rage, raw human emotions powers him up like an a-bomb. He whips Smith in shreds and totals the main computer. At his super power level Neo will burn out and loose it unless all that power is channeled away. He uses all this power to alter time and rescue Trinity but looses his power afterwards with the world now at peace. Cliché but its a fantasy! It should lift you up not let you down. My wife could see my disappointment as we left the theater. She thinks that the Matrix team just ran out of ideas trying to get both Matrix 2 and 3 filmed at the same time. If they had taken some time after Matrix 2 to think about it the outcome might have been a lot better. Soooo..... About the directors cut for the DVD release. Let fix the ending to something we can cheer about. One other observation. Neo and Trinity... There is just no chemistry. The closer they get, the more strained and forced it appears. Their love story comes across much stronger when they are apart like the scene with the Frenchman and Trinity when trying to rescue Neo. Frenchman: "Would you die for him?" Trinity cocks gun "Believe it!"
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