Revolting.

Rating: Null/10 (29 November 2003)

Horrible ending to the highly-popular, but very suspect series has Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss and a faceless crowd of others trying to save the remainder of the human race at Zion from an army of heartless and ruthless machines. "The Matrix Revolutions" continues the seemingly endless journey by picking up right where "Reloaded" finished and confusion runs amok as Armageddon is the premise. Again Hugo Weaving is the primary bad guy as the leader of a race of controllers who want nothing more than to destroy Reeves for good. Characters appear and disappear and most are never developed or used the way they should have been (Jada Pinkett Smith and Monica Bellucci are prime examples). The undertones of the series keep on slapping us in the face and in the end we are left with a long and pointless special-effects heavy mess that has little coherency and even less intelligence. "The Matrix Revolutions" is so full of chaos that every performer gets left behind in the dizzying maze that is the film. Not even Reeves gets as much screen-time as he deserved and the others just seem to be caught in a revolving door of crazed camera-shots. I never have been a huge fan of this series, but after the second installment I thought I might change my tune when I viewed this chapter. However I honestly came out feeling very cheated and highly disappointed. I saw no point in "The Matrix" , I saw a glimmer of hope with "The Matrix Reloaded" and I felt like I crashed into a cinematic wall of stale, loud and uncreative ideas with "The Matrix Revolutions". By the finale of this I felt like I was watching whacked 1980s-styled cartoons where "The Transformers" were trying to save the Earth from evil robots bent on destruction. Completely empty, incredibly disjointed and very worthless, let's hope that we won't have to sit through "The Matrix Reborn". 2 stars out of 5.