A monumental failure!

Rating: Null/10 (5 November 2003)

The Wachowski Brothers created the original MATRIX and they've successfully "destroyed" it in this latest flick. I saw Revolutions in Sydney at 1am in the morning on the opening day, having seen (yet again) the original Matrix and Reloaded just a few hours earlier. I purposely haven't read any reviews prior to the movie as I wanted to have few assumptions and so that it wouldn't affect my expectations. How wrong I was. I wish I'd read all the other reviewers comments and didn't waste my time seeing this movie at all! As the Architect said in Reloaded: "...The first matrix I designed was quite naturally perfect, it was a work of art, flawless, sublime. A triumph equaled only by its monumental failure. The inevitability of its doom is as apparent to me now as a consequence of the imperfection inherent in every human being...". To use this analogy, one could say that the original Matrix movie was "naturally perfect, flawless, sublime". However, the Wachowski brothers are only human beings... They've successfully managed to achieve such a monumental failure which they've called Revolutions. This trilogy could have been a work of art, a triumph. Yet its fallen to just another sci-fi movie level. Not only has this failure affected this latest movie, it has even managed to lower my regard for the previous two movies in the series. I was really looking forward to buying the Matrix DVD trilogy when it will come out next year. Not any more..
I really wish that all of you readers pay attention to so many other user comments expressing a monumental disappointment and that you don't even bother seeing this film. It will spoil the experience of the first two films in the trilogy. Therefore if you take my advice, the following comments won't even be called "Spoilers": The movie just went down hill from the "train" scene. Why didn't they use the matrix within a matrix theory? It would have explained so many theories. This movie hasn't explained as much as it should have. I really wish they've spent more time on explanations rather than on mindless fighting scenes. Why didn't they use the potential of these great actors that they've hired such as Monica Bellucci? She only got a one-liner! What happened to the great speeches of the previous movies? They were simply flat here. Why did they waste so much time on a few different love stories. None of them were really that convincing. What happened to the Oracle? The original Oracle was a pleasure to watch. Instead this "replacement" actor was as much of a let down as the rest of this movie. I could go on and on but this movie is seriously not worth any more of my time.