Not worth of its prequel

Rating: 6/10 (10 August 2014)

Obviously the Wachowskis had set their own bar quite high with that amazing movie The Matrix is. And obviously its sequel would not have such a mind-blowing plot like the first movie did, but it would just limit itself to narrate Neo's path to try to disable the Matrix after realizing he is the One. I watched the 1999 movie yesterday, and today I woke up thinking about it, which I think it proves what a good movie it was. And I couldn't wait to watch this movie, because I was obsessed with knowing how on Earth could the Matrix be disabled.
But this movie is not about it. It's just another action movie. Perhaps it was quite pioneer in that sub-genre that super hero movies are (which are now much more widespread than when this trilogy was released), but, honestly, I'm not into that kind of stuff. What I'd loved from the first movies were all the philosophical themes it dealt with, but these are hardly seen in Matrix Revolutions. You've got instead lots of kung fu fighting, cars being blown up with a katana (!?) and visual effects that might have been impressive for the time but that they now seem taken from a PlayStation.
What saved it from giving it a lower score was the scene with the Architect, which is by far the best scene of the movie. The Architect is quite a fascinating character that reminded me of the Masonic Great Architect of the Universe, and I like how his lines, very well written, bring about some nietzchean Doctrine of the Eternal Recurrence to that contemporary Plato's Cave that the Matrix is. If I had seen this movie in the cinema, this scene would have been worth the ticket. You've also got some good ideas about causality and the dilemma freedom-fate, specially in Morpheus' character, who insists on people's free choices but blindly believes in a prophecy that would obviously bind people's actions to an a priori determined course of action. But who cares about it, people just want to to watch Neo stop bullets and fight thousands of Agent Smiths at the same time.