Matrix Revolutions or Matrix Trash

Rating: 1/10 (5 November 2003)

This movie is a phenomenal piece of trash. There is no story line, no characters (at least none that is played with any convincing emotional expression), and excrutiatingly long battle sequences. And the ending is not just confusing, it is outright ridiculous. The 45 minute or so long battle of the robots and the sentinels is so tedious and unpleasant that I found myself counting the ceiling tiles in the theater. While the first Matrix was an awesome display of visual magic delivered with conviction and artistic beauty, this visual effects of this film have no bearing on the story line. Instead of elevating the innate conflict of man/machine and good/evil with special effects that build up to a crescendo in keeping with the evolving story line and the unfolding of the mysteries, the action sequences in this movie emerge as stupid and misplaced. Why, for example, are New and Agent Smith, who by now have mastered the workings of the Matrix and can interact in the realm of energy fields have to fight each other with Jiu Jitsu skills? They could, by now, just blow the other with sparks of energy bombs now that it is clear to both of them that the physical body exists only in the virtual matrix world. The ending is so ridiculous that it is embarassing. The boss of the machines appears with a human-like face to talk peace with Neo. soon after, the Architect appears with the Oracle as representing the rationsl and the spontaneous. And then the multicolored sunset apears in the presumably emancipated matrix when the sun has supposedly been extinct for centuries. As I left the theater, I felt a strong urge to warn fellow theater goers to spare their time and money. Maybe one good thing this trash of a movie produced was my sense of philanthropy. Fellows, please be good to yourself and don't bother with this one. Let's savor the memory of the fascinating first Matrix.