More like "The Real World: Revolutions"

Rating: 2/10 (12 November 2003)

I'll have a small section of non-spoilers first: I was really let down by this movie. It's a bad sign that when I think back of it, I can't think of any scenes in it that I liked. I found myself several times looking at my watch or just looking around being bored because stuff just didn't grab attention. I already have the first two on DVD, but I'm sure not going to buy the third one because I really have no desire to ever see it again, and I will not buy a movie I don't like just to "complete the trilogy".
Anyway, HERE BEGIN THE SPOILERS **********************************

Here are several things that bothered me about the movie and contributed to my dislike of it. * If I wanted to see a long battle with people shooting guns and rockets at an attacking army, I would have gone to see an Arnold movie or some other general war/action flick. I watch the Matrix to see people do cool stuff in the matrix. Besides that, it seemed really pointless to me that they were fighting to defend against this force that would wipe them out unless Neo did something amazing to rescue them. They would do just as well to just hope and pray for Neo because their fighting isn't going to accomplish anything. * Trinity's death scene--boring dialogue and too long. * The one stop train station--a big waste of time. If they were using it to show where Neo is as his mind is "trapped between our world and his", why can Trinity and Morpheus go there to pick him up? * OK, we knew Neo could fly in M1 and M2, but now all of a sudden Smith can fly too? Why didn't he fly in Reloaded if he had gone beyond who he was? * Also, I was looking forward to some cool moves in a big showdown with Neo and Smith. Instead, they are causing craters and mushroom clouds and seismic activity as they throw each other through buildings, fly and crash into each other, etc. It just turns into some kind of clash of the titans-style pummelling that just seems dumb.
So, the last movie was pretty bad because it wasn't really the Matrix anymore. They totally departed from the style of the first two and ruined it.