Crashed after the first part of the trilogy

Rating: 1/10 (14 November 2003)

Should anyone want to see Matrix Revolutions, the quality of the movie depends to 99% on the composition of the audience. The movie is bad (bad as in what one critic coined as: "Highlander 2 bad"), but don't let that stop you having fun. Cynical commentaries ("Boooooring"), imitations of other movies ("Use the force, Luke", Darth Vader Breathing Sounds during Trinitys dead), or just a loud moaning or choking give the movie an unintended humor (you probably don't laugh about it now, but wait after you've seen the first 20 minutes and the movie has eroded your brain enough and you will be ROTFL).
In other respects the movies does the same thing as the machines - digging deeper and deeper, the only difference is, that the machines eventually stop while the movie continues to dig on and on. The few longer dialogs seemed to be randomly pasted together in the hope that hardcore fans will find their logic anyway ("*You just didn't understand the movie!*"). The action sequences lost their appeal in Matrix 2, a few pretty good ones would be better placed in a Terminator 4 or a Battletech movie (at least in Battletech the developers have brains enough to give their robots an armor). The quality of the movie, the appeals to blind faith and some exaggerated typical-American- patriotic sequences could make one think that the PR Devision of the White House had meddled with it (if the prototype of an average American is soooo "patriotic" that he wants to fight with 16 years, then is one of the last ones standing during the main battle, opens an important door and brings the news of peace to a cheering crowd - baaaah! - this all sounds like a commercial for the US Army (a very bad one too) - I feel filthy after being targeted by such a spot, ... well, perhaps such pseudo-patriotic inlays are necessary at the moment, ... thank you "George" ...)
The one good percent: I liked the two infantry women ... it had some appeal attacking a gigantic machine with just a double rocket thrower and no means of defense during a raging battle ... I must say I was impressed (much more impressed than by the behavior of the robot pilots or the ammunition reloaders), although I'd like to see these sequences in a Terminator 4 or Battletech.
All things considered a Highlander-Strategy should be used with the matrix movies ("If it had only been one ...") - the first one is to be remembered as excellent, the other two should be deleted from memory - from every memory. It's a shame that the whole thing crashed after the first movie.