Look deeper! Please!

Rating: 10/10 (6 November 2003)

If you see this movie, and don't 'get' it - go back again. Perhaps the advantage of having seen all the shorts in the AniMatrix made the difference. See it before this film if you can. The 'history lessons' contained are perhaps crucial to understanding what Revolutions, and the trilogy, are all about.
Anyone who says that this movie is less cerebral than Reloaded is both right and wrong. Reloaded was a lesson in philosophy, Revolutions is about the personal application of it, bringing it to a very human and societal level.
There is enough here to satisfy anyone who is prepared to look for it, to put the effort into the understanding of what the Wachowski brothers are trying to tell us. This isn't so much about the future, or the nature of reality, it's about humanity today.
The movie is let down, in my eyes, only briefly, where a couple of scenes come across as cheesy, rather than powerful. If you can get past that to thinking about the point of the scenes, it doesn't matter too much - they're only short moments.
I'm 90% sure I know now exactly who the Merovingian is, what Seriph represents, and the answers to many other questions left hanging previously. The missing 10% makes me want to see the film again - because I'm sure the answers are all there to be found.
But ultimately, that's not what any of the Matrix films were about. Revolutions answers questions that relate to and underly the first film, as much as it addresses Reloaded. It's not 'what is the Matrix', it's 'Why is the Matrix'.