Disappointed

Rating: Null/10 (4 November 2003)

I saw this movie last night at a warner bros. screening. The MD of warner brothers introduced the movie, telling us to by all means enjoy the movie but to resist and not tell our friends about it. At first I thought, this is going to be great!! then, after a couple of hours realised that word-of-mouth might kill the box office receipts. A man was standing in the corner of the theatre with night vision goggles killing anyone's attempt at piracy on the day. Well, the movie.....sucked to be honest. Both the Matrix 1 and 2 blew me away, the visuals, the damn right coolness of the entire thing had never been seen before. Sadly, the final chapter offers nothing new. There's no exhilliration at seeing Neo take off, no gasps at bullet time (which is hardly used). Too much time is spent out of the matrix, which makes for mundane visuals of sweaty, dirty sweaters. Don't get me wrong, the attack of the sentinels is great, but, ok, thousands of sentinals creating a blur and guys in Aliensesque machines with machine guns that need to be reloaded every 5 minutes by the pesky teenager that kept licking Keanu's derriere in Reloaded. At one point, I won't spoil the setting, a ship is being bombarded by sentinels and an army of machines are heading towards it when Neo suddenly has a brainwave.....let's fly above them, there are too many of them for me to handle. Well of all the getaways in movies, flying above them (they obviously can only go left or right) is a cop out. I could continue for hours but I won't. however, I will mention the cheese that resonates throughout the movie. Ok ok we know....humans against machines, but come on this is a sci-fi movie that made us applaud and tell everyone how great it was, it's not a sunday matinee repleted with people saying I love you all the time (not just Neo and Trinity either). I've never written anything about a movie before but this really really disappointed me. I know you'll all still go and watch it, I don't blame you, I did. I'm sure die hard fans will find no faults as sure as I am that others will be left like me.....4 years and it came to this????