What on earth happened!

Rating: 1/10 (5 November 2003)

I walked out of the theatre stunned. I had gone in without high expectations, but in no way did I expect Revolutions to be as bad as it turned out to be. I mean, literally, they took the easiest possible solution for all of the problems and paradoxes they had created in Reloaded, and just let it sit with that. There was not a single clever move in the entire movie. It was like watching somebody set up a series of interesting puzzles, and then "solve" them by just smashing them to bits and saying, "Well, the puzzles no longer exist, do they? Thus they are solved."
I still can't believe it. There was so much possibility at the end of Reloaded. They opened so many doors and left things in such a state that we could have been in for the same big surprises and mind benders the first movie held. Instead, it was all about smashing things.
I left wishing that this was somehow a big joke, that a week from now the brothers will pop up and say, "ha ha, your reality has been foiled, now here is the real version." Then I realize what an awfully expensive joke that would be and sigh resigned. This truly is the way it is going to end, and that's that.
So what made Revolutions such a stinker other than the above? Well they still can't direct a love scene, period. Every time Neo and Trinity were about to kiss, it was as if they had both been stabbed in the back and were still in shock as they mechanically, almost corpselike, clutched at each other. Watching them try to kiss was the most frightening thing this halloween.
You know, I just don't even have the energy to finish this. If this were any other movie than the third installment of the Matrix, I would have just scored it low and forgotten about it. See it if you wish to, there are some neat special effects, but you'll probably end up wishing you never saw it, and that you could erase all of the cheap endings from your memory -- and somehow go on believing that the mysteries in Reloaded and the original are yet unsolved, complex, and introspective riddles.