2005... The Matrix Rots?

Rating: 1/10 (7 November 2003)

Oh boy. How awful it was to see my favourite movie of all time self destruct. As I coughed my last popcorn, I thought, how fitting to see the sun set in its closing credits... a symbol of a slow and torturous ending to a heavily destroyed concept.. that was the beautiful Matrix.
A gorgeous, intelligent, imaginative idea with so much personality. And so what has it become. Just an ordinary, dull action flick with disgusting dialogue.
Die-hard fans will gather and try to make sense of what never was... and the brainless will hail the movie for the ideas they never really understood. But the rest of us (even those who tried desperately to hold onto what little remained after Reloaded) will go to sleep immensely disappointed.

The truth is, there was NO end to the beginning. Nothing was answered... instead more questioned, twists and turns to the very end. The world exploded on superficial terms and I was left with an intensly bitter aftertaste.
It sickens me to read other reviews that claim Revolutions was well explained... A blind man need not know, what colour is the moon.
How exhilirating were those action scenes in the first Matrix, when they were actually immersed in a well understood concept! When Morpheus sat Neo down and told him of the curtain over his eyes! But now we merely watch Neo waving his hands like a Jedi knight and looking through Superman goggles. You can even see this frustration on Keanú's puzzled looked face.

So let it not rest in peace... rather let it rot in the hands that murdered it!