An ending to be proud of.

Rating: 10/10 (29 March 2004)

Matrix Revolutions ends right where Reloaded left off. As sentinels race to the Zion, the human city, Smith has made the matrix his own. Neo is trapped in limbo ie the train station. While here he encounters a man he caught a glimpse of in Reloaded. This program leads Neo to the first of many revelations that he will have. Revolutions is a war picture/love story/philosophical poem. The CG in the siege of zion is spectacular as is the scene. The final showdown between smith and Neo is superb but the main theme of Revolutions is not the action but the emotion. Revolutions represents the brick wall that everyone faces and hits. After years of fighting machines in a neverending cycle of violence a true end is near. The humans are rapidly finding out that not all machines are bad guys. And that in fact some have been instrumental to the existence of Zion. The tenet of human good machine bad is being proven for what it really is...stupidity. That is not to say that the action is subpar. The sentinels finally get to show just how bad they really are and the subsequent scenes of them moving in formation like a school of fish is one of coolest sites in movie history. The Matrix Revolutions doesn't cop out. The ending is sad, happy, sweet, sour, conclusive and open to interpretation all at once. It is an ending to be proud of.