Socialist Propaganda Garbage

Rating: Null/10 (12 August 2006)

A film which smacks of Riefenstahl! This miscarriage of film is little more than a vehicle for a twisted, dead, ideology. Let's get past the eye-candy of bullet time special effects and realize that the Wachowski brothers are hacks and shills for a political system that has murdered more citizens of this world than fascism, aids and cancer combined! Their melodramatica is being taken seriously as Brechtian art in our sound-bite society and I am here to tell you it's not even in the same genus! And I won't even trivialize this review by commenting on the "acting" that took place in this farce. Also, if you weren't aware of it already, the buzz is (was) that they lifted this work from another source (read as, "any good idea is worth stealing!") Editing was adequate as was the DP. Good fight sequences set against ground-breaking special effects...all wasted on this "story".
However, it was poorly directed by a pair of neophytes who had little to nothing to their name before and deserved less afterward....their trilogy has since gone down as one of the worst set of films in history, no further proof needed.
The ending, flying into the sky? How utterly sophomoric.
Save your money, and your stomach medicine, don't bother with this load of Bibical-revisionism with its Mauist theme.
Rent "Logan's Run" or "Equilibrium", if they don't provoke more thought in you, at least you'll be entertained far more than this waste of cellulose.