I didn't get it

Rating: 5/10 (17 November 2003)

(Possible spoilers ahead)
Maybe there was nothing to 'get', but I didn't get it anyway. 'Revolutions' made close to no sense to me, partly because I forgot what 'Reloaded' was all about, and also partly because I was too busy laughing at the movie to attempt to follow the plot. Granted, the movie was better than I'd expected, but then again, I didn't expect much, if anything at all, in the first place. 'Reloaded' left me very, very cold and angry, and thus I thought 'Revolutions' wouldn't be much different. While the last installment is a lot better than the second, I still contend that this is a 'trilogy' that should've never be.
First of all, I don't think there was even a plot to follow. Ask me for the story and I couldn't tell it to you. Thanks to its two sequels, 'The Matrix', to me, is merely a 'trilogy' of visually-spectacular effects, bad acting and a whole mess of pretentiousness that I would like to have done without, thank you very much. The first movie was fantastic, the second total nonsense, the third a continuation of 'total nonsense' and since I've already forgotten what 'total nonsense' is all about and wasn't keen on sitting through 'total nonsense' again, I was clueless about 'Revolutions''s plot right from the beginning.
Still, any intelligent person would glean from the first few minutes that Neo is going to save the world. Or something. I didn't know what he was doing half the time, and frankly, Keanu Reeves is such a wonderful actor that he makes me NOT want to even ATTEMPT to care, sarcasm fully intended. There were a few intriguing scenes in the movie, especially the whole thing about the train, but the film-makers' solution to that problem, for lack of a better word, felt as though it was resolved too quickly. And thus, whatever interest it managed to arouse in me also quickly dissipated along with the dismissed idea that the annoying Oracle was going to lose her eyeballs (THAT would've been something!).
(spoilers ahead)
This movie also produced one of the most drawn-out, melodramatic and downright silly death scenes ever. Just how long did Trinity take to die, anyway? And I thought I'd seen enough of those in cheesy and horribly-dubbed Hong Kong flicks. I lost track of the number of times I started laughing, only to be silenced by annoyed members of the audience, but who could blame me? It was funny!
One thing I did like about the movie: The battle scene in Zion or whatever. It was exciting, although awfully predictable (we all know that the commander or whoever was going to die. Like, duh). This time round, the effects didn't make me laugh as much as I did during the previous movie, and that part with the water droplets was breath-taking.
That's about all the good things I can say about the movie. It was mildly entertaining, both intentionally and otherwise, but on the whole, it was also very silly. Keanu Reeves, in addition, is hardly a convincing superhero, so I was glad that he was left out in half the movie.
And can I just add that I did not get the ending? I went to see this movie to know how it all ends but I ended up not knowing anyway.

Somehow, I'm not surprised at all.