Great movie--probably different from what people were expecting.

Rating: 9/10 (13 December 2003)

I see Revolutions as a great movie.
A few points taken from it for the beginning--which exemplifies the feeling that Reloaded and Revolutions are just one large sequel. Which would be great if they were making a fourth movie...
Anyhow, I thought the movie was great (like I said before). The effects--even better than reloaded, the action--excellent, story--very good, acting good, etc.
I was really looking to be underwhelmed by what I'll call the Mechs in the Zion battle (the [exoskeleton] machines the humans pilot). I thought the "Burly Brawl" from Reloaded looked great, but you could tell it was an effect, the lighting was just a little off--and they may have went extreme on changing the camera angles in some cases. That made it a little too obvious--but it looked better than so many effects I've ever seen. Then the Mechs blew me away. I saw it at a stadium seating theater with a huge screen. The work on the Mechs is probably THE greatest effect I've ever seen. It looked perfect. EVEN when they got insane close-ups. The preview video looked alright--but the final product was OUTSTANDING. Same with the other effects.
The acting, IMO all of the Matrix movies have had good acting. Perhaps people feel Keanu is being wooden, but I can deal with that--I feel he legitimately had questions and concerns. The Zion scene from the last movie, AND THE ONES FROM THIS MOVIE, were great. Less Matrix in this movie--but acceptable because of what's going on story-wise. No need to pointlessly be in the matrix--Neo and Trinity and Morpheus do their thing, you see what happens to the Oracle and Seraph, we see that PROGRAMS actually have "feelings and love", etc. If you didn't catch that, I thought the story was great too.
Everything about this movie seems right IMO. Just a LITTLE underwhelming--and for some reason it seems everyone is expecting more. I don't know--the earth being obliterated--something. The ending leaves you wanting more [it did for me*] but it answers a lot of questions and creates some interesting questions too. That may be its only downfall. I thought it was a great movie though.
From what I heard people whining about, I though the movie was going to end as soon as Smith and Neo started fighting. I was like NOOOO, this is so freakin great. I was "on the edge of my seat." I was like how are they going to end all this here. Then they get to the end--which was a pretty good ending--and like I said before, leaves us with some interesting questions--and DOES answer some important questions--not right at the end, but even throughout the movie.
9 out of 10

*AKA I want to see more Matrix movies--because I think these guys know how to tell a story.