terrible. spoilers like you read about.

Rating: Null/10 (7 November 2003)

I have not been so dissapointed in a long time. This movie was so far departed from the first two, it was almost a new film, not the end of a trilogy. Several things were wrong, in my opinion. First, Neo was in less than half of the movie. The fight between the humans and the machine for the dock in Zion was cool, but it was the best scene in the movie. It should have been a side plot, a short scene. There were none of the kung fu fighting scenes that practically defined the first two films. Neo spent the whole film becoming more and more Christlike, to Smith's Satan(duh!); do we really need the imagery pounded home so bluntly? Secondly, Smith, by far the best character, was also conspicuously absent. He became so interesting and entertaining in the second flick, now he is just a typical bad guy on a power trip. Lastly, nothing is really resolved. The machines and the matrix go on, who is to say with Neo gone they don't break the peace after three days? Why was Neo the one? Cause he chose to be? Give me a fu#$ing break. Why did the Oracle try to help them? How did the Merovingian ever become a power? And lastly, how p-whipped was Morpheus by Will Smith's wife? If he gets bossed around like that, what chance do the rest of us have?
Bottom line- If I want some kind of an ethical, religious, morality,or spiritual lesson, I will go to church. The Wachowskis really dropped the ball here, I should have stayed home and watched the second one on DVD, I'd be less bitter. Great boob job on Persephone, though.