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November 06, 2003

Yet Another "The Matrix Revolutions" Review (StumpJumper)

I was one of the brave legions of Matrix fans who pre-ordered tickets online so that I could see The Matrix Revolutions on opening day. Having now seen it I can honestly say that this movie doesn't suck. You just have to know how to approach it.

Watching The Matrix was one of the greatest movie experiences of my life. I remember the day very clearly. ZombyBoy and I went to see it at our favorite theater, the Westminster Promenade 24. We were pumped with anticipation due to the brilliant ad campaign. It was opening day. We had no idea what to expect but we were excited nonetheless. We were not disappointed. We walked out of the theater in absolute silence. Normally we wait until we are outside the building and one of us begins the conversation by asking "So, what did you think?" This time things were different. We were stunned. It took awhile for us to be able to speak. Once we could, the floodgates opened. Nothing but amazement and accolades. This, we thought, is what movies are all about. Many of you, I'm sure, had similar experiences. The Matrix energized our generation like no movie since Star Wars. Where Empire Strikes Back was every bit as amazing as Star Wars and is considered by many to be the best movie in the franchise, The Matrix Reloaded sucked. Period. In many ways it was an unparalleled failure. The Matrix Revolutions falls somewhere between the two.

Revolutions picks up where Reloaded ended. Its purpose is simply to end the story arch. It assumes that the viewer is familiar with all of the events of Reloaded and makes no attempt to explain what is going on. If you don't remember much about Reloaded then you should probably rent it before seeing Revolutions.

Once the movie gets underway it is evenly divided into three parts. These parts should be no surprise to anyone who has followed the saga, so I shouldn't be spoiling anything by saying that the final two parts are the battle for Zion and the final confrontation of Neo. The first part simply sets the stage for the second two.

No Matrix review on this site would be complete without discussing the video game. Unfortunately, a complete understanding of the first part of Revolutions depends on the video game, too. For those who are unaware, Reloaded was never intended to stand on its own. It was conceived and executed as one part of a total multimedia experience. The story actually begins with an animated short called The Final Flight of the Osiris. This short was released on the Web and can also be found on the Animatrix DVD. The story then continues with the first act of the the video game Enter the Matrix. The stories of Reloaded and Enter run parallel. Where Reloaded centers on Neo (Keanu Reeves), Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne), and Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss), Enter is about Niobe (Jada Pinkett Smith), Ghost (Anthony Wong), and Sparks (Lachy Hulme). Whenever these three characters step off-screen during the movie there is a corresponding scene in the game. The final act of the game begins when the movie ends. One of the best features of the game, which was written and directed by the Wachowski brothers, is that it contains nearly two hours of live action scenes that were filmed while making Reloaded. These scenes include the game characters as well as the other movie characters, including Neo, Morpheus, and Trinity. As a multimedia/gaming experience this is amazing. As a movie experience it is terrible because the best parts of the story are in the game. The game has two car chases, a fight against an agent-piloted helicopter, a fight on a cargo plane taking off, a visit to the chateau, a daring chase involving Agent Smith (Hugo Weaving), the highway car chase/fight, and the assault on the nuclear power plant. The movies has the underground rave, boring fights, and crappy dialog. Moreover, Revolutions actually begins where the game ends and not strictly where Reloaded ends.

The first part of Revolutions, then, does more than just set the stage for the final plot resolution. It also ties up the loose ends from Reloaded and Enter. It does a reasonable job of this for the most part. Where Reloaded was filled with long soliloquies and awful dialog that asked more questions than it answered, the first part of Revolutions moves pretty methodically and directly. All of the characters are moved toward their final resolutions and the dialog, though a bit stiled, is far less wordy than in Reloaded. Overall this part of the movies is pretty solid, save two minor problems.

One of the great strengths of The Matrix is its credibility. Once the basic premise of the movie is accepted by the viewer, the Wachowski brothers work hard to keep the plot credible. Everything that happens is given a reasonable explanation. Reloaded fails miserably in this respect. Revolutions fares slightly better, but only because it offers little new, its purpose being to end that which Reloaded starts. Viewers expecting the staunch credibility of The Matrix will be disappointed. Viewers who have accepted Reloaded and, subsequently, accept Revolutions for what it is should not be too disappointed by the credibility gaps in the first part of the movie.

The second problem presented by the first part of Revolutions is that it never bothers to explain the events of Enter. When Niobe, Ghost, and Sparks first rejoin the other characters, no attempt is made whatsoever to explain how they got into the situation that they are in. Intelligent viewers should have little problem inferring what has happened but this still disappointing. The disconnect between Enter and Revolutions is largely irrelevant but it is indicative of the sloppy attitude that the Wachowski brothers have adopted. Such omissions did not exists within The Matrix. As a fan of the game I was also disappointed that many of the subplots of the game, such as the personal relationship between Ghost and Trinity, were completely missing. Again, irrelevant to the plot of Revolutions, but sloppy given how completely intertwined as the game and Reloaded were.

The second part of the movie, the fight for Zion, is arguably the best part of the movie. It is straight-forward action meant to shock and awe. It makes no pretense about larger ideas or themes. in this way it was very similar to the classic battle for Hoth. Everyone, the viewer and the characters alike, know that the end is a foregone conclusion. There are no attempts to mask this. Instead, the futility is embraced. There are no overarching moral messages about the horrors of war or the nobility of the combatants. Little is made of tactics or strategy. This is a battle, in all of its CGI glory. Many of the ancillary characters who seemed so out of place in Reloaded make up the human element during this battle. To their credit the Wachowski brothers use them appropriately. They provide these character to give us a connection to the events but they don't oversell their importance. Fans of hard core science fiction action will enjoy this battle and remember it for a long time. The only complaint that could be made is that it really offers little toward Neo's messianic story, but most viewers of the trilogy will have become fed up with that story long before the battle begins. In the end it becomes, for many, a necessary reprieve.

Once the battle progresses to the necessary point, the story shifts to Neo and the fulfillment of his destiny. This is the moment that the movies have been leading up to. Fortunately, the heavy dialog of his meeting with the Architect is absent from this part of the movie. It is not completely without dialog and it is not the best dialog ever written, but the plot moves forward at a good pace. There is a strong element of suspense and the ultimate end has not been telegraphed as obviously as it could have been. The special effects are stellar and the fighting does the original Matrix proud. Most of the answers that are given here are questionable, at best. Worse, many questions are simply left unanswered. Fortunately for most, any hope of great revelation has long since been dashed. On a symbolic level the ending pales in comparison with The Matrix, certainly, but this is not a movie about symbolism the way that Reloaded was. This is a movie about action. On that level, Revolutions does not disappoint.

In the end I give The Matrix Revolutions a thumbs-up. I am disappointed at the direction that the series has gone. Thus, Revolutions will never be the movie that I hoped it would be. Given the direction that the series has gone, however, Revolutions is a reasonable end. It pales in comparison to The Matrix but most of the movies ever made do, too. As a science fiction/action movie it isn't bad. It has great special effects, good action, reasonable pacing, and a plot that rarely gets bogged down. It doesn't completely undo the damage done to the franchise by Reloaded but it makes for a far more enjoyable two hours. For that alone, it is worth seeing.

Posted by stumpjumper at November 6, 2003 09:02 AM | TrackBack

Comments

I find myself really wishing that they'd simply decided to not do sequels. I'm going to see this sometime over the next week (at either the latest or earliest show possible so that I miss the crowd), and I hope I come out feeling as positive about it as you do. I can't help but feel that it should have been so much more, though.

Posted by: zombyboy at November 6, 2003 09:12 AM

The key, my friend, is simply this: don't expect what it could have been, simply accept it for what it is (and lamment later).

Posted by: StumpJumper at November 6, 2003 09:21 AM

Part of the problem for me, though, will be that I never played the game--and now I can't. At least I have Animatrix (which has some brilliant animations, and a few that didn't move me so much) and have watched the whole thing.

I didn't realize that any real knowledge of the game would help with understanding the movies, though.

This makes me want to rent The Trilogy and spend an evening in awe. Thank God I still have the LOTR trilogy to look forward to.

Posted by: zombyboy at November 6, 2003 09:52 AM

Hello zombyboy and stumpjumper...
I was not critical about Reloaded the way most were, and I had high hopes for Revolutions. Upon seeing Revolutions, I was convinced that the only mistake the Wachowskis made was going over the heads of the audience... not at all a discredit to their philosphical attempts. But the third movie was a piece of dog poop... and I NEVER say that about a movie, no matter how bad it is. So this movie really is a piece of dog poop.

Sincerely,
Willy

Posted by: Willy at November 8, 2003 02:32 AM

I think your review was pretty good. I agree with many of your observations. However zombyboy already stated the EXACT feeling that me and most likely 90% of The Matrix fans are feeling after seeing it:

"it should have been so much more"

Any other opinions to the contrary stating "it was an action movie" or "at least it gave us some closure" are bullshit. Anyone that thinks that obviously has no real understanding of the amazing story that The Matrix is the incarnation of.

The philosophy IS the movie. The first movie opened our generations minds to so much. Most mainstream viewers had no idea what the movie was about and only knew the special effects. But thats not what the movie is.

Im tired and realize that i cant possibly do justice to the movie or the fans by summing up the relevant points and arguments. So ill just end with the thought that i cant believe the wac brothers sat down and took their golden movie and made 2 more movies and ended it the way they did.

Seriously... they sat down... asked the existing cast to read the script and then were like "and we end with a new black woman as the shell for the oracle, the white guy (architect), and some indian little girl that apparently made the sun shine saying 'uhh... truce ok?'" ITS BULLSHIT!

There are many great parts to the movie, but since they chose a route that most fans wouldnt have gone with, they can suck my cack.

Posted by: EC at November 8, 2003 03:07 AM

Man, it's just a freaking movie. you'd think it was a fucking religion. It's not like any of the (often poorly done and scrambled) symbolism is original and new. The only new thing in any of the matrix stories is the slow-motion special effects.

Posted by: jwong at November 8, 2003 04:42 AM

revolutions in my view didnt disappoint. So the first act was a bit dodgy, but everything after when Niobe and co arrive is amazing, special effects, fight scenes,'everything the body needs'. Though as Mouse kindly put it in the first film 'it doesnt have everything u need', the questions asked in reloaded seemed a bit irrelevent as the 6th one and stuff never came to anything, the story wasnt too strong either. But i thought the brothers ended it the best way they could have after reloaded and made the idea of one man saving zion and ending the war seem not so ridiculous.
i went into the cinema expecting the worse and i wasnt dissapopinted

Posted by: jellis at November 8, 2003 07:32 AM

It's very simple. The Matrix was a movie about philosophy, the nature of reality, and the debatable importance of what we perceive as reality.

The CGI and Hong Kong style action were cool and drew people in. But what made them fans was the philosophy and the questions the story raised.

It looked, in the 2nd movie, as if the Bros Worchestershire might bother to address their themes in the third movie, but they didn't.

Ergo, the third movie, which fails to address the themes in any way, is a complete hack job of storytelling. It's as if some retarded movie exec stepped in and said: Hey we know it's the philosophy that made your first movie great, but rednecks don't understand anything about Decartes so just write a fucking action flick. Except, I can't believe that because what retarded movie execs believe in is payoff, and the original matrix paid off.

The only conclusion I can come to is that the authors are so bone-dry stupid that they didn't understand the points of all the philosophy they mentioned in passing in the first films. It's like they asked a question and didn't bother to present some kind of interpretation... or hell, even to address the question again.

There were a million ways this story could have gone while still sticking true to the original themes, and the jackasses chose none of them. They suck.

Posted by: mchicken at November 8, 2003 09:10 AM

I love all three movies. Compared to most of the stupid movies that come out these movies are all really good.
What pissed me off is revolutions doesnt have a ending. WTF kind of shit is peace between the humans and machines. It doesnt work any way I can think about it. Eventually humans by nature are going to attack the machines or something. At best we could be slaves. I thought the machines needed us for batteries? IT DOESNT MAKE SENSE. IF THE MACHINES DIDNT NEED US FOR BATTERIES, WHY KEEP US ALIVE. Why keep their enemies alive... why risk it. IF there CAN be peace then that means that they didnt need us for batteries and thus there should be no humans.
Didnt anyone else read that spoiler? about how neo and all of them are computer programs and the movie ends telling that machines actually didnt win the war and we keep the computer programs active to run generators, and that is what zion is... but when the matrix program is infected we have to drill down there to deystroy the programs before they become infected, and if neo can defeat the infection the machines can live, while up on earth its a human world. That would of at least of been a mind fuck i can deal with, not even knowing anything more than machines arent going to kill humans on sight is fucking DUMB.

i still like the movies tho

Posted by: chris at November 8, 2003 09:59 AM

I loved the movie until the last 20 minutes or so...as soon as Trinity died the movie got dumber and dumber. I'm still not sure why Trinity and Neo died, but it was a sucky way to end the trilogy. I had about 50 million different scenarios of the way it would end running through my mind, and that was not one of them. Even just the thought of them dying was not percieved in my head. Other than that it was an awesome movie, but it's a shame that it's all over.

Posted by: StrawberryShortcake at November 8, 2003 11:11 AM

I left the cinema crying. And they where definitely NOT tears of joy. I didnt see the origional Matrix in the cine, as I was never too interested in sci-fi, but when I saw it on TV I was amazed. Never before had I seen such an intriguing plot, great characters and most importantly, mind-numbin' gun-totin' special effects.

After this, I was first in line to see the sequel and I thought "hey, that was pretty good! Not as great as the first, and on its own, probably woulda been crappy... but all the questions raised, all the odd ends, they're all gonna be tied up with just as much special effects to boot in Revoltions! WOOT, MATRIX!" after seeing the conclusion, I can only hope for a fourth movie, cos everything that has a beggining, has an end... and this was not it.

In exchange for peace, Neo would kill Smith so he could not ruin the machene city as he did the matrix. But to do this, Neo gave his own life. And the machenes retreated. WHY?! That big ol pointy machene made a deal with Neo, but after he has killed Smith, why not just carry on with the attack THAT THEY WERE WINNING and "kill 2 birds with one stone"? Surely these machenes would have no concept of honour, and could break any promise without regret, something the machenes dont have? And another thing, how is peace possible anyway? As the machenes need the humans in the pods to live, and the Zion humans want to free them, it is not.

Really, a predictable ending of the complete destruction of the evil machenes and freedom for the enslaved human race would have been nice. Hell, I would've been happy with the machenes winning, killing the humans in Zion and having all the humans in power pods they needed to survive, with the possibility of the One being reborn, AGAIN, to save the human race in the future. But thats just it, there is no ending. Neo and Trinity die, so does Smith, and the machenes give up their attack on Zion, so we are basicly back where we started! Or are we? Have the humans been freed from their pods? It doesnt say! For absolute freedom, are the people of Zion still going to have to free them? In that case, the ending makes even less sense!

All in all, its a great trilogy, and some of the greatest movies of all time, but it is all ruined by this third installment. The movie deserves an ending. We, the fans, deserve some explinations.

The Matrix - 10/10
Reloaded - 9/10
Revolutions - 6.5/10

Watch this movie, yes, but only for the special effects.

"...a triumph matched only by its monumental faliure." I think youve got it, right there, Mr.Architect...

Posted by: Mike Harrison (aka Opja) at November 8, 2003 03:21 PM

Matrix Reloaded: too intelligent for most viewers, too slow for the kiddies.

Matrix Revolutions: too dumb for the smart ones who came back to see the movie, too action-packed for them to be edified.

BUT>...

The Matrix Trilogy beats the ever-living ass out of any other movie you would LIKE to compare it to, and that's just a solid fact. What...you're going to choose Kill Bill, Mystic River, Luther, Scary Movie 3, etc over any Matrix movie this weekend? Whatever. If you group all the "best-selling" trilogies together and judge them, you're going to pick The Matrix over all the others.

Posted by: Xianlewis at November 8, 2003 04:36 PM

The Oracles asks the Architect: "So the others (apparently other humans) are being freed then?"

The Architect replies: "Of course. What am I? Human?"

This leads us to believe that in honoring the deal with Neo, the machines are releasing all the imprisoned humans in the Matrix.

But it does not explain what the machines will do for power now. The only reason humans were kept alive in the first place was as a power source. If they are being released, what will the machines do now?

This has to be the worst thing left unanswered by the movie. It's almost as if they brothers wrote themselves into a corner and had no way to actually free the Matrix people so they just said: "Neo makes a deal with the machines and they let everyone go".

I could accept everything else that happens, even if its not the way I would have done it. But this is one big gaping hole.

Posted by: Enix at November 8, 2003 07:29 PM

There is a huge misconception by Matrix fans that the machines _need_ humans to survive. They dont. We absolutely believed that they did in the first movie, but in Reloaded, the Architect reveals the truth in this scene:

The Architect says that if Neo doesnt choose the path of selecting 23 humans from the Matrix to rebuild Zion then the system will crash and kill everyone connected to it. And since the machines are on their way to destroy Zion, the human race will be completely wiped out.

Neo responds with: "You wont let it happen. You cant. You need human beings to survive."

Then the Architect counters with the single line that changes our perception of how relevant humans are: "There are levels of survival we are prepared to accept."

So there is no huge gap in the storyline. Just a less-than-exciting one line explanation. More and more stuff like this will surface in the coming weeks.

Try to not make assumptions that the story wasnt complete. It was according to the writers. It just wasnt the story all the fans wanted. And it wasnt done as well as we wanted.

BTW the lines in quotes are actual quotes from Reloaded, not my interpretation. I put in my dvd and checked the subtitles to make sure.

Posted by: EC at November 8, 2003 09:12 PM

This movie is a major dispappointment unto itself. It left more slack jawed questions than concrete answers. It left the movie goer feeling robbed rather than rewarded. All the hype of this series ending makes me apprehensive about seeing Start Wars episode three. I don't think a lot of people would be able to let George Lucas off the hook with the same " You screwed us on the ending, but we kinda forgive because you kicked ass in your first endeavor" kind of way that the W Brothers will escape with. This movie quite frankly is like parsely. Unused, Unwanted and pushed to the side.

Posted by: BoneCrusha at December 2, 2003 10:51 PM

I beleive the story is left like this because there was needed some context for the basis of "MATRIX online" coming 2004. there for just as fans were anticipating the answers in matrix trilogy we would be left to find them our selves.

2nd : the whole matrix characters and story plot feel is very "comic book" like.
the train bum, the twins "hotstuffs' keymaker, whole morvengian issue. plus revolutions is cut into a tv series segaments. each half hour has different situation to solve.
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Posted by: dan raz at December 4, 2003 06:11 AM

Yes it left questions. Yes it was not all it could have been. But I still liked it. The Zion fight was awesome. The Neo/Smith fight is great also. That fight is straight out of an anime. The good things about Revolutions:

-Great effects

-Great fights

The bad things:

-cliffhanger ending

-(spoiler) Neo and Trinity die!! WHAT THE HECK?!

I am thinking about writing my own script about what I think should have happened. (I would not be going public with it or I would would get sued) It might make some satisfaction for me. These are some ideas I have:

-Instead of Neo just having his hand block thing in the real world, how bout he now has all his powers and he is even more powerful.

-Why have Neo just fight Smith. How about Neo versus ALL the Smiths. eh? Now that is a fight.

-Let me think. How about...Trinity and Neo don't die! They have a big kiss scene at the end. Due to that Zion scene in Reloaded we now have...Neo Jr! Happy, happy ending!

-After Neo is finished with Smith, he blows the heck out of the machine city. Robots destroyed, problem solved.
He returns to Zion in time to destroy the remainding robots.

-Neo doesn't become blind.

Those are some of my ideas. I hope some of you thing they are cool like I do.

Posted by: Joe at December 8, 2003 07:00 PM

Just wanted to add my two Cents.

It seems like most of you aren't thinking things through here. Many of you seem to think the machines need the humans for power. This is not true. Up until this point, Humans were just the MOST EFFICIENT means of energy for the machine horde. Neo saves the machines from the Agent Smith program, the machines agree to free the humans and use a LESS efficient means of power. Simple.

Personally I liked all 3 movies for the most part. The dialogue is repetitive at times and Keanu is probably the worlds worst actor, but the action in these films is unparalleled and thats what they are all about. Action.

Posted by: M1N10N at December 9, 2003 12:05 AM

I just wished the "Brothers" would have stuck to the themes of the first film. Many people aren't saying this but the second film undercuts the first movie. Too bad the "Brothers" thought it would be a great idea to say to all the fans that the first movie was a complete lie. perhaps they didn't realize people actually liked that movie. I now this sounds odd but the "Brothers" need to go back and redo these last two movies the right way. I'll go see them

Posted by: James King at December 19, 2003 01:12 PM

A lot of people seem to think Revolutions is awful because events that they don't like. I haven't seen a lot of comments about acting nor any concrete references to philosophy or the lack there of (and I'm not going to try to do so myself). People complain because Neo and Trinity die. Some people wanted the matrix-within-a-matrix concept. Some people want the machine city destroyed. The W Brothers don't deliver this. Well, tough. Sometimes a good story isn't in what the fans want. Sometimes a good story piss people off. Albeit, not in the George Lucas Jar Jar way.

So Neo and Trinity Die. Most people realize the religious significance in Trinity, if simply by namesake. But how many people have realized the religious significance in Neo's death, or rather his sacrifice? I haven't seen a lot of comments about it. He sacrifices himself so that everyone, and that includes machines AND humans, can live in peace? Sounds a bit like Neo, AKA The One, is a Jesus Christ archetype.

Why doesn't it make sense that the machine city isn't destroyed? As stated in Reloaded, (not verbatim) "The machines need us, and we need them." While this statement, in context, isn't referring to the sentient machines, but the machines that sustain Zion, it is a statement that has a more universal meaning in the relationship between the machines and humans. This is why the Machine City isn't destroyed. This is why Zion isn't destroyed.

BTW, not all humans plugged in the matrix are simply freed. As many may recall, Neo had a violent reaction when he learned the "truth" (or what was then perceived as the truth, for all you nay-sayers who claim that Reloaded contradicted The Matrix, Morpheus doesn't know everything and Reloaded showed it). If the the average Joe was simply unplugged from the Matrix, he'd probably go into shock and die. Instead, humans who choose to do so are "allowed" to leave the matrix. Whether or not this means that the truth will be revealed to those still plugged in the matrix, I do not know. But there is no longer a need for an underground resistance to free people from the matrix, if people want out, they can get out. I suspect that they could get back in if they wanted.

That's enough ranting from me. A bit more than my two cents.

Posted by: Bunsou at December 20, 2003 09:53 PM

I see the Matrix Revolutions not as many see it (seperate from Reloaded), but connected, and inseperable. This movie must be seen not as a Revolution, but, rather, a Revelation. Revelation is the most misinterpreted piece of literature ever devised, and the symbolism covers over our perceptions of it's reality. Our perceptions of Revolution are subject to the same false perceptions. We must view such a movie free of our own perceptions or interpretations of symbolism, and simply enjoy it as art. It is far easier to dismiss something we do not understand than to accept a different perception, and get on with our lives.

Posted by: Daniel Lau at December 21, 2003 09:57 PM

In response to EC's comment, based on the remark made by the Architect, do you suppose he could be speaking on cannibalism or some form of cannibalism? I mean, the way that he states his answer leads me to believe that he's talking about a form of cannibalism. When we see the machines through Neo's eyes, they are made up of the same light energy that the humans are made of. The entire city exists because of human energy. they could, theoretically, feed on each other in order to survive. they could even eat their own cities to sustain their energy. we saw them feeding the larger machine in the battle in the Dock. they looked like they were dying. it's only my opinion, and i don't care if you don't accept it or not, but it helps eliminate the idea that the machines don't "need" humans, it just makes things easier, which we can also take from the architects comments.

Posted by: Vincent H at December 21, 2003 10:15 PM

My question to all. If Neo(6) failed 5 times before, why do we not assume he failed this time again?
xirtam...

Posted by: xirtam at December 26, 2003 03:26 PM

Yeah i dont know how machines would survive off of eating each other... and i dont really want to get into it. It could be a possibility, but i doubt it.

I think the Architect meant that there were willing to survive by other ways if they had to such as natural ways of getting energy like damns or windmills. Originally they got their energy from the sun so it would make sense to not need humans.

And as far as Neo failing again... from everything from the movies that was presented and implied i think that its safe to say he succeeded. The Matrix still exists, Zion still exists, the Architects little talk with the Oracle, etc...

Posted by: EC at December 30, 2003 07:56 AM

I don't know why the hell everyone gives 'Revolutions' so much bullshit (Or 'Reloaded' for that matter).Yeah,it left alot of loose ends.Yeah,it contained some atrocious dialouge.Yeah,the acting is tired.And yeah,the ending is not what we wanted.But even in the light of all this,it STILL was a very awesome movie.Personnaly,I'm the type who likes to be left wondering and not have ALL the answers given to me.Has anyone stopped to think that maybe the W Bros did this on purpose to give a sense of mystery to the whole thing? Come on,people! Use that little magical thing called "Your imagination".

Posted by: Xanadu at January 28, 2004 02:48 PM

not sure why everyone hatted the secong film, people said it was all special effects, in that case so was the first one surely? and some of the best special effects ever seen. Anyway the point i am going to make is that surely it was written as a trilogy, if not reloaded and revoloutions were certainly writtren together, so in my opinion you have to judge it as a whole. Your view of the first matrix was so posetive because the idea of 'the matrix' was something mindblowing. If you expected anything near as good in the second or third then your a fool, no offence. the only critasism id have is that it didnt really explain what the hell happened at the end, which was a bit annoying, but who gives a shit, still the best trilogy ive ever seen

Posted by: jim at January 31, 2004 03:10 PM

I thought the last revolutions was fucked. You can tell they (the creators of the film) totally fucked up their whole story line and obviously did not understand the first two themselves. The second (reloaded) started to lose the plot and didn't it continue further in the last.

Noting really from the second was backed in the last and the ending of the whole "trilogy" is WHAT THE??

Peace made between machines and humans and they are FREED? Yeah until the machines need their power again. Wasn't that the whole purpose of the Matrix in numero uno ??

I think these fucking idiots who made the last are planning for another Matrix to make another shitload of $$$$$$.

Posted by: JCS at April 8, 2004 06:53 PM