I don't guess anyone has noticed this...

Rating: 4/10 (8 November 2003)

...but really, all that this series of movies is, is an update of the basic story that was first put forward in TRON. Seriously, think about it...
Neo = Tron (Bruce Boxleitner); Morpheus = Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges); Trinity = Yori (Cindy Morgan); The Source (whatever the giant floating head at the end of Revolutions was) = Master Control Program; Agent Smith Sark (David Warner)
And in both movies, there are two levels of reality; one exists in machines, one exists in the "real world." In both, one of the protagonists is forcibly extracted from one world into the other. In both is an inherently malevolent computer program that wants to take over the functions of all other programs. Seriously, go back and watch TRON (I recommend the 2-disc DVD set), and you'll see a disturbing number of parallels.
Now, onto my actual Revolutions review. First, this series was never intended as a trilogy. The evidence for this is both how amazingly weak the script is for Reloaded/Revolutions compared to The Matrix. Yeah, there was a lot of pompous dialogue in the first one, but at least it didn't grind the movie to a screeching halt. Also, character motivation changes completely from one to the next; i.e., Morpheus becoming so fatalistic, Neo suddenly being unsure of himself after ending the first one so confident, etc. Second, this movie scores about an 8.5 out of ten on the Unintentional Comedy Scale. Honestly, was anyone else laughing and wishing Trinity would just freakin' DIE already? Third, and the thing that I think annoyed me the worst: the Brothers Wachowski took what had to have been the most simplistic approach to ending the story that was humanly possible. Anyone who has said the movie made you think needs to put down the movie ticket and go read a freakin' book or two. This was not a deep movie by any stretch of the imagination, it has plot twists which can be seen a mile off, and has a script so ham-fisted in its imagery that I was embarrassed on behalf of the screenwriters. Deep would have been the idea (that I've seen in a few places) of the "real world" being another layer of the Matrix for those who reject the first. That, by the way, would also have explained a lot of other things a whole hell of a lot better than they actually wound up doing. Things like why Neo's powers work when he's not jacked in, how Smith can migrate between worlds, why it didn't really matter one way or the other if Zion was destroyed or not, etc, etc, etc...
Bottom line, I saw this strictly because I'd already seen the first two. I'm certainly not going to buy the DVD, and I'm really kind of sad that the legacy of these movies is going to be that of squandered opportunity. 4 out of 10 (This movie was OVERWHELMINGLY average)