Whoa, final Matrix ride!!!

Rating: 7/10 (5 November 2003)

I saw Revolutions this morning and I must say that it was a good but not great ending to this awesome cyberpunk sci-fi series. I loved both 1 and the infamous sequel Reloaded, since both dealt with particular themes(the first was about self-realization and the second was about the exploration of free will) but Revolutions doesn't provide a closure or even expand on the ideas Reloaded set the stakes up for. I dare compared it to Return Of The Jedi, Revolutions being a more twisted version of it, were it focuses on solving the issues from the film before it guns ablazing rather than examining the ideas and character relationships more firmly. Don't get me wrong, the action sequences were pretty immpresive, but some of the better characters in the series got lost, like Morpheus, Merovingian, or even the Architect, who I thought was going to be a bigger factor in this movie. On the positives, the directors were not afraid to make the Machines and the programs as plain villains, but as beings doing what they must to survive, who can think, feel, and look beyond their status quo, an all too human trait(I recommend people to see the Animatrix, which would justify the machines for their actions, even if I can safely guess that most of you did already). Also, they were willing to kill off major likeable characters, and the ending is interestingly open ended enough to keep us guessing about Neo's fate(note: I think that he becomes sorta of what Lain became at the end of the Japanese anime series Lain, for you kids who saw that particular show). To end, I hope the Warshoskis end this trilogy and pursue other projects, since they strecthed this idea to its max. Other than that, good work, you leather wearing fetish loving brothers, you. 7/10