THIS FILM FAILS BECAUSE......

Rating: Null/10 (10 July 2003)

........we are supposed to care about zion. When seeing the first film millions of times I never would have guessed that zion had such a huge part to play in the sequels. But it does. The wachowskis have tried to fit too much into this. The way I see it revoltions and return of the king aren't gonna be that different. Both have one saviour against a force of evil to help protect and save a place full of innocents eg zion and middle earth respectively. So when return of the king is out we will care about the crisis of middlearth cause it was so well developed in the first LOTR film. In revolutions (which is essentially about the fate of zion) no one will care because its been underdeveloped in MR. Maybe if the bloppoksis made it into a 4 part series and concentarted the second film on zion and made us care about it, then it would work, but it dont. Secondly if you go watch the first film now, despite being far better than this one, it sucks, because MR contradicts everything in it rather than developing its themes and plot points. It seems like a waste of time now and seeing them all back to back wont work either. I think that the bllopkiss have focused too much time on elaborate special effects, f***ing with out minds, kung fu, and that whole 'surprise factor' instead of making us care about the last human city on earth, which, ironically, are arguably the most rushed scenes in the film, when they should have been handled with the most amount of care. I'm not too sure if the film itself is to blame, more to do with the general approach of scriptwriting and the level and direction that the blposkis have decided to take the matrix story to (if that makes sense). It's as though both films were adapated from novels and the first one was filmable (as it had a linear narrative) but the second one wasn't, if you dig. Great SFX though (DUH!!).