The nadir of the Matrix franchise...

Rating: Null/10 (16 February 2004)

WARNING***SPOILERS***
The Matrix was a great movie. Together, however, the trilogy is terrible. The original movie had a great plot combined with a healthy dose of action and special effects. Matrix: Reloaded was crippled by a confusing and weak plot but was saved by awesome action scenes. And unfortunately, Revolutions has both a bad story and bad action. The sad part is that the story could've been good. The Animatrix had set the stage for a decent storyline. But it looks as if the Wachowski brothers ran out of ideas. In the end, they even confused themselves, so they decided just to throw together the cliche finale to any story, a pure good (Neo) vs. pure evil (Smith) one-on-one battle. Even worse, the overcomplexity of the plot combined with the fact that the (largely irrelevant) Zion battle scene takes up most of the movie's time left nearly every person leaving the theater scratching their heads. And this brings me to the most crucial point: the action scenes. What had made the first two movies unique and respectable was the Matrix scenes. They were cool, sleek, intense and yet calm at the same time. In this movie, we only see one or two scenes of that. The battle for Zion between humans and sentinels is made into the major event in the movie. Although equipped with digital special effects, it is boring compared to the matrix. Now, it's just a Terminator ripoff. And one more thing: In the Matrix, Lawrence Fishburne was a highlight character, powerful and enigmatic. This time around, he's just another guy, barely doing anything the entire movie. What the hell?