A Big Let-Down

Rating: 2/10 (6 November 2003)

This 3rd installment is horrible. **spoilers below** Let me start off by saying I am a huge fan of the Matrix genre, watching the first 2 films of the series multiple times, reading newsgroups articles on the meaning of films and speculation on what will happen. This film was a huge letdown for me because it failed to answer many questions from the first two films adequatly and really give an ending to the series. We see Trinty's Death as meaningless as a car acident, characters such as the trainman?? and the seraph, and little indian girl pop in and out of the film with no real purpose or definitive storyline and we get the ending where Neo forgets the matrix is a program and dies. As stated by other critics, the film borrows ideas from several films such as aliens (rebel robot suit), attack of the clones (the sentintels), robocop (half man/half machine), starship warriors and even the english patient. (trinty's very long death scence). I was looking for a unique film as the 1st and 2nd installments gave us, but we end up with an x-files type explanation for the geniously created plot with a sci-fi channel movie ending. The special effects were great but you have been there before. If I had my choice, I would ask for a refund at the theatre and rent the video.