"The Matrix Revolutions Sucks"

Rating: 1/10 (10 November 2003)

Oh, I just came back from a screening of this and all my worst fears came to light. Yes, this film sucks. Horribly and without mercy. Now, I really liked the Matrix, defended the decent Reloaded, but I'm all out of praise for this series. I just went off on my friends about how much this movie sucks, so I probably won't have much left new to say.
I wanted to like this film, I really did. I was going to cut it all the slack that I cut Reloaded. Even then....ugh.
This film is bad. Bad bad bad. The Zion parts are like every other post-apocalyptic sci-fi movie ever made. There is almost no time spent in the Matrix. Heck, there is almost no time spent with our main characters. I think Morpheus disappears halfway through and no one notices. The Merovigian and his goons are hardly in the film, and seem rushed through. The dialogue is bad. The fight for Zion is headache inducing. Here's a plot hole for you Matrix geeks -- in the Animatrix, we learn that some ships have kidnapped Squidiees for study. So, why can't they just use that information to create an EMP that affects only the Squidiee's and not the Zion ships?
Holes like that ruin the movie. I could sit here all day ripping apart the bad dialogue, the bad pacing, the bad direction, etc. It's such a shame that a good original was ruined by two lackluster sequels.
Grade - D.