A pointless, incompetent, incoherent mess of a movie.

Rating: 2/10 (18 August 2005)

Watched Matrix Revolutions last night and then watched the original Matrix tonight... The contrast was incredible. The Matrix had a great idea and turned it into one of the best B-movies of all time with great production values.
Matrix Revolutions, however, was thin, watery gruel by comparison. The so called plot wandered and dropped into long periods of pointless action or pointless filler. It could have used a great editing job that shortened it by at least 30 minutes.
In all ways this movie was lacking when compared to the first movie - the writing was sloppy, the characters and dialogue well-worn and one-dimensional, the computer graphics looked "mailed-in" as if they thought that spending a lot of money on computer animation could make up for not doing their design work correctly, and the pacing was inconsistent and irritating.
Additionally, the devices they used, the tools the people of Zion created were ludicrous. Why invent huge walking robots that were unnecessarily complex, completely without armor and required people to run back in forth to reload them. Gee, I guess they had a really unscrupulous defense industry to sell them garbage like that.
But even then, where was this movie taking us anyway? What we thought might be a resolution was nothing more than an incoherent cop-out at the end. If Neo was the "One" why didn't he get the victory they envisioned in the Original Matrix? It looked more like an uneasy armistice to me.
The most unfortunate aspect of this movie is that it is a discredit to the original. Whereas the creators had a chance build on an incredible beginning, they chose instead to take their Hollywood money and wasted it on this pointless, incoherent mess of a movie.