MATRIXED !

Rating: Null/10 (12 November 2003)

It is unfortunate but REVOLUTIONS fails to deliver the much anticipated goods. In fact this is the worst installment of this trilogy. Here we continue to be annoyed and obfuscated by the philosophy imbued sesquipedalian prose of the Oracle and the Frenchman. The only thing remotely interesting about the Frenchman is that his french is actually genuine. Anyway, you're completely matrixed by the plot, so you have to rely on the action for a modicum of entertainment. The attack of the machines on Zion is breathtaking, but at this point you're experiencing a computer technology laced montage, rather than watching a movie. The climatic fight of NEO against a super enhanced agent SMITH is borderline submoronic, or perhaps I'm the submoron because I couldn't quite figure out the subplot involved in this sequence. THE MATRIX was such a tour de force and indeed a breakthrough in cinematography that expectations for the sequels have been stratospheric. You have no choice but to watch REVOLUTIONS to get closure. In the end the TERMINATOR trilogy, which also involves MAN against MACHINE, is a far better movie franchise. The story is very simple, and the action is down to earth ( literally).