My Tricks

Rating: 6/10 (7 November 2003)

Welcome, welcome, please step inside! It's the big Matrix night! Rumor has it, it's going to be a revolution this time. Even more! Come, come, don't fear anything, because there is nothing to fear. There is nobody here: look, the whole cinema is empty. It will only be you, me and the Matrix. Everything else, well those will be my tricks.
Minor Spoilers
I've come this far and I've seen the Matrix trilogy. I really doubt it was ever supposed to be one. It would've been better if it hadn't. But, as it is, we have to play along, pay our tickets and hope things won't be as they always are. Still we can choose and the choices we make can change the outcome of the action. That means we can choose not to go, we can choose not to indulge this kind of attitude towards us and towards art. You can do that, you still have the chance. I've wasted mine.
It's sad to see how things have turned out. What once was an impressive Sci-Fi movie, even more, has become a lame drama pumped up with action to fill in the gaps of loneliness: I mean those silences when Neo looks at Trinity and they proclaim their everlasting love. The Matrix wasn't about that and it's not what the people, the audience, wanted to see. I therefore expect a negative outcome of this affair. Fairly predictable, lacking any real innovations up to the end, which surprisingly does save a small fish. Too bad it isn't enough to save the species. And if you are wondering, yes there still is room for another. As the producers have run short of smart talk, they just thought using some "reloaded" lines would do just as well. Guess what: it didn't. Expect to get bored, but don't leave the cinema before it stops, because then you will say your final(?) journey into the Matrix was a real waste.
So in case you do fight through until the end, then you can expect some big "booms!" and "bams!", even some intelligent talk. Or is it just smart? Anyway, you will also so what has become of the once fearsome agent Smith. Actually he's become a farce, a lame excuse for an ending. And I don't know why, but I don't think it's good. What's even worse is that a mad thought went through my head: he's the best thing of this film.
I agree with those who will say it's entertaining towards the end, because it is.But there's a difference between entertaining and good. These two terms don't quite coincide.
Neo, what have you saved? Maybe the world, for the moment, maybe your Matrix, but not ours. It's not right, why should we suffer while you live? 6.5/10