Friends don't let friends see Revolutions!

Rating: Null/10 (5 November 2003)

Before I get into the why, let me warn you in case you don't read past the spoiler warning. This movie was awful and I LOVED the first two.

***POSSIBLE SPOILERS BELOW!!!***
What is there to say that hasn't been said already? Someone else commented saying that he'd never seen an audience that was more let down. I agree. We were practically embarrassed to be there. I used to think there couldn't be a greater letdown than the new Star Wars movies (which I like, but they were still a disappointment) but this movie has, in two hours, managed to become the number one in my hall of shame and retroactively ruin the previous two movies.
There's nothing, NOTHING I hate more than getting to the end of a movie and feeling as if the antagonists have been nothing but mere spectators and were unable to create any real impact. What's worse is sitting through two movies that make you think there will be resolution when there is none. Great. An epic has become a nothing. The movies should not have ever happened because they told a story with no resolution. No real ending. No purpose. No nothing.
Revolutions was rushed. It shot right through without the payoff of extra cool action like we got in the second one. Morpheous was lame in this movie. He was just kind of a weak gimp along for the ride. Trinity dies, more or less, senselessly. Neo's martyrdom is for NOTHING! The Matrix isn't solved. Zion is still at the mercy of the machines.
Really, the big winners are the sentient programs. That's it.
Nothing was solved, but nothing really mattered. If that's your mantra then I suggest you see a GOOD movie that delivers the message. It's called Fight Club! It never brands itself an epic and it doesn't try to hide behind anything it isn't. What has the Matrix taught us? We're slaves to poor movie makers! I HATE THIS MOVIE!!!
If you haven't seen any of the Matrix movies yet, do yourself a favor. Watch the first one, enjoy it for all that it is and pretend that it ends there, that way you'll still be able to enjoy it again.