It's as if they were purposefully TRYING to make it as bad as possible

Rating: 4/10 (23 December 2005)

I'm no "Matrix" nut, but the first one was okay, and the second was different (if extremely pretentious). "The Matrix Revolutions" is an amalgamation of all the flaws of the previous two films with none of the positive attributes. It continues to focus upon the efforts of the Zion underground, scenes which are so hopeless and laughable they make the rave party in "Reloaded" look dignified. The final "battle" between Neo and Agent Smith is perhaps the most anti-climactic finale in any movie ever made.
Some people have come to the film's defense. They've tried to imply it's an intellectual film - which is a rarity - and people who cannot appreciate this are too accustomed to MTV.
Look, the Wachowski Brothers dropped out of high school, okay. They admitted that they borrowed many different themes from religions and philosophies for the first film. The thing is, they could get away with slight references in the original because the original was an action film. References don't need to be expanded upon. "Matrix Revolutions" tries to talk to us - and it fails, because the Wachowskis are not brilliant thinkers, and their attempts at writing a script packed with philosophical mumbo-jumbo is laughable at best. It's being talked down to by an intellectual inferior, and it's painful.
The action scenes - and there are a good number, don't get me wrong - pale in comparison to "Reloaded." They just aren't nearly as entertaining.
The ending is terrible. And the scene with the girl and the Oracle on the park bench is so beyond-bad you have to wonder if it's meant to be a parody of itself.
Remember the scene with the Architect from "Matrix Reloaded"? Stretch that out to an entire film's length - the result is "Matrix Revolutions."