Not Revolutionary

Rating: 5/10 (5 November 2003)

The third chapter of the Matrix series fails to build on the premise of the first two movies. In "The Matrix" we got a world where reality is not reality.; there is another level of reality outside of the Matrix where people live. In "Reloaded" we got yet another level of reality thrown at us, in that Neo and "the One" have come before. Zion has been built and destroyed many times before. The Architect and the Oracle are two powerful forces battling a war of armies and ideologies. The stage is now set for "Revolutions" which takes us... nowhere. Nothing new is revealed, and what little is revealed is vague. Sometimes vague is good, but not here. We get lots of impressive visual action, but it's all kind of predictable and doesn't amount to much. We also get lots of attention paid to minor characters who only mean anything if you played the Matrix video games. Neo, Trinity and especially Morpheus are lost in the background. None of them get a satisfying ending or final scene. We don't get any real questions answered, but we do get lots of new questions to ask. That's not what I was looking for in the final chapter of a trilogy.
5/10 stars.