Who decided to film the first draft of the script?

Rating: 3/10 (18 November 2003)

From the first moment I walked out of the appaling Matrix Reloaded, two things were certain in my mind. The third film would be as bad or worse but I would go and see it.
Unlike the rather confused prophesy/ counter-prophesy/ total nonsense of the film, both my predictions came through.
It had a far superior pace than the first film, in that it did not go from pointless action sequence slamming into a tedious drawn out soliloquy and back again. Nonetheless, the film featured some of the worst dialogue I have seen outwith a B-movie or TV movie. Did anyone revise the script at all? Did not even an studio accountant look at the balance sheet and notice that £300million was spent on effects and £2.50 on script writers?
Did no one ask why the first 30 minutes with Neo in the subway station took place at all? It appears simply to introduce the little girl and give a reason for Trinity et al to go to a bondage club?
And after the first film heavily hinting at some relgious theme, and the second film laying it on thick, all subtlety was thrown out the window as the third film charged headlong into a bizarre remake of "The Greatest Story Ever Told". After all that money spent on effects, why did they not go the whole hog and add an animatronic John Wayne going "Aww. Neo truly was the son of god."
I gave the second film 3 out of 10. In all, the third has a better structure than the second (but that is like saying I preferred my heart surgery to my amputation) and one section I actually enjoyed and was mostly impressed by (the first section of the attack on Zion).

This is countered by an appallingly bad script, a number of pointless or overlong sections and a meaningless and irritating ending. I wanted to give this film, 3.5 but as I can't it's rounded down to another 3.