A complete betrayal of what the other movies are...

Rating: 3/10 (4 November 2003)

The Matrix Revolutions is extremely successful in making the audience not care one iota about any of the characters that we cared so much for in the previous two Matrix movies. Ultimately, the movie has three flaws: 1) the dialogue 2) the story 3) the acting.
*** SPOILERS COULD BE AHEAD but I will try to talk generalities***
How can we expect to care about anything going on when the dialogue is boring at best and utterly absurd at worst?
How can one expect to be entertained by a movie that focuses so much on "The Matrix" when about 75% of the movie takes place outside of the Matrix?
Not that I expect much from Keanu "Ted" Reaves, but he delivers an exceptionally awful performance and the entire rest of the cast follows him. Morpheus probably has the worst performance of all, but it isn't entirely his fault as he turns into a complete pansy in this film.
All of the Zion scenes, simply put, suck. Even for a sci-fi film, I can't believe or buy into anything that happens. Apparently, the wonderfully designed robot suits don't need protection for the pilot. Apparently the machines will ignore everyone when it it time to reload or when someone is simply marching around with a rocket launcher. The machines do not act in a rational manner. Don't even get me started on the "truce"...
Having no other way out, the Wachowski brothers simply take the easy way out when they basically nullify everything that the architect said in Matrix Reloaded. The architect had one of the best scenes with the most intelligent dialogue in modern movie history. Yet, it is this scene that painted the Wachowski's into a corner. So, instead of creating a kick-ass way for Neo to fulfill the prophecies predicted by the architect, yet still save everyone, they simply say, "the architect is a liar" and leave it at that.
I could go on for hours (and in fact have at work with others who have scene the film) but, ultimately this movie fails on virtually every level. Very little martial arts, with weak action scenes and unrealistic even for sci-fi standards battles make this a terrible movie watching experience.