Where the hell can I get the blue pill?

Rating: 1/10 (13 November 2003)

I think this sentiment of mine is obviously shared by several users here and has also been expressed in these oh-so-apt words - and not without a cause! Way back in those good old days in 1999, the Wachowski Brothers were still a up-and-coming team of writers/directors, and the first "Matrix" movie seemed like a promise of things to come. But, alas, it was not meant to be. "Matrix: Revolutions" is a disgraceful ending to the whole series and probably one of the worst films I have ever seen (including "Signs", "Black Hawk Down" and a lot of romantic comedies with Meg Ryan) - it is so unbelievably bad that I do not even know where to begin complaining.
Neither can I decide what was worst: The trite and hackneyed dialogue, randomly interspersed with pseudophilosophical ramblings ? The stereotyped characters? The looooong battle for Zion that felt hollow, empty and devoid of any meaning, because I was unable to care for any of the cliched defenders? Or the open ending that might hint at yet another sequel? Well, I don't want to imply that the first part of the series was a flawless, intelligent arthouse masterpiece - but it did have style, a certain kind of freshness and vigour. As a smart mixture of cyberpunk a la William Gibson's "Neuromancer" and "Johnny Mnemonic" (which was also adapted for the big screen starring Keanu Reeves) and Hongkong action movie a la John Woo ("Hardboiled" and "The Killer" are real classics, guys), its fame might prove to be of duration.
"Revolutions", however, should simply be forgotten and disappear in the depths of some archive.