What are you people thinking??!!!!!!

Rating: 3/10 (7 November 2003)

WARNING****SPOILERS***
Oh come on, are you people serious? Do you honestly think this movie was that great? Oh sure, if you mean it was a good action movie, or if it had great F/X I won't argue. If you say that it was fun to watch as is, I won't argue that either. But was this a great film? Was this the great climax we were all promised? NO-WAY! First off, did you all forget the first movie? Do you remember how brilliant the concept was? Neo was, for the most part, all of us-the audience. He/we awoke to the notion that everything we take for granted in life is false; and that in essence he/we is the savior of the planet. A sort of suedo christ; and we're invited to see a new reality, which is reality! Whoa! Then we're promised that we will end an age long struggle, a war that has been going on for two hundred years, and that we will free the human race and bring peace to earth.
Yeah, right.
In the end of Revolutions, I was left asking a very simple, but poignant question: 'What the hell happened to all that?'
I mean, the war didn't end. Neo didn't save the planet. All he did was give the humans of Zion a bit more time. If anything, the only real winners were the machines themselves. They got to cause Zion a whole lot of damage, they also got to elimanate the potentially threating Smiths, and most of the people are still enslaved.
I mean, isn't this the same point the humans were at before they met Neo? Aren't they still struggling to survive? Wasn't the point in the beginning to save all the humans in the in those fields? I didn't think it was merely to save their own hides in Zion and make some lame (temporary) truce. But apparently it was!
Basically, all I was left with is the same disappointing fact I was left with when I saw the Starwars prequels; Hollywood sci-fi writers can't write! I mean I heard so many better scenerios from fans like us than what the 'What-ever' brothers came up with in the end. I mean even Morpheous should've been like; 'That's it? The machines aren't destroyed? All we're left with is alot less humans in Zion and a whole lot of clean-up?!'
I'm sorry guys. I know alot of you want to like this movie. I did too, but how can we forgive such shoddy writing when it's the same guys who wrote the brilliant first Matrix. And by the the way, they had COMPLETE creative control in this one. I guess like Lucas has shown us with Starwars; that's not always the best thing.