Matrix Revolutions

Year: 2003

Grade: C+

Country: USA

Director: Wachowski

Review

spoilers ahead… the first two opened with trinity kicking ass and ended with a song by rage against the machine, they used the story and characters as a vehicle for the action (not vise-versa), and they let you suspend your disbelief without requiring you to turn off your brain. the third one didn’t do any of those things. it went away from the matrix, it didn’t have any new ideas, it didn’t tie things up in a satisfactory way and as a result it just didn’t work. there were too many scenes in zion, neo’s powers grew too outlandish, for the first time there were characters i actually found annoying, and the religous motifs became too prevalent. in the first films the religious stuff was there, but it for you to decide what you wanted to do with it – i usually chose to just let it pass. in this film, though, they hit you over the head with it. on paper the end of the final film may have appeared to be the least corny of the three (since the other two were love can cure all type endings), but in reality the third film had the ending that played out to be most corny and, well, kinda lame. i’d like to watch it again, not because i think something will click and i’ll all of a sudden love it, but because i want to understand further what they did wrong and what they intended. after the first two i feel i owe them a second viewing with this one. the action sequences were good and trinity kicked some ass, but overall it was a disappointment.