weak for an action film even, horrible end to the trilogy

Rating: 1/10 (8 November 2003)

Booooooooooo. It doesn't get more shlock than this. At one point during the interminable "war scene" my movie mate leaned over to whisper, "is this still The Matrix?" Indeed, it seemed that after the first 20 minutes they had given up and pulled in the second-string directors of Deep Space Nine for a little practice. Surprisingly, it is even terrible for the vanilla genre-fi action movie it is. Weak. Weaker still are the maudlin characters and inhabitants of Zion, who must spend every useless moment, sanctifying their very mortal predicament by practically making explicit banal themes like, "Love conquers all, even super powerful machines. Faith and Hope are all we have, they also conquer all. Please make a note of these things, moviegoers, and get a warm fuzzy in your heart." As a sequel? Complete crap. Nothing answered. All open-ended questions were just smeared with a giant pat of ambiguity butter, or left entirely untouched. Mostly the latter.
A better ending: Neo gets to the very unspectacular "machine city" (oh boy, they have a city! it looks sort of like our cities! do they eat pizza?), finds his matrix pod, climbs back in and calls it a day.

Booooooooo. Don't waste your money.