Entertaining, complete and wise

Rating: 9/10 (8 November 2003)

¡°Everything has a beginning has an end.¡± But obviously a lot people hated the ending. I¡¯ve seen ¡°The Revolution¡± today and here is my two cents: guys, just because you hated the ending doesn¡¯t mean it¡¯s a bad ending.
(spoilers)
In fact I think this ending makes perfect sense. Maybe people expected some big war and human being will be set free and the Matrix will be destroyed¡ªjust like the usual Hollywood endings, human being always wins. But why must Zion win? How can it win? The machines are far more powerful. It will be ridiculous if they won even the One has superpower. So they have to negotiate and make peace with the machines. It also answered the question I¡¯ve asked myself since the first Matrix: How are they going to do with so many people once they are set free? Can they survive without the machines? Now I don¡¯t have to worry about them.
It looks like a happy lame ending in fact it is not. It is tragic. Someone sacrificed himself/herself and the others were saved. Plus the peace is not forever. In human history, at the beginning of wars people has all kinds of reasons to fight but at the end they just want peace and no one remember why they have to go to the war in the first place. How true!
(end of spoilers)
So The Matrix ends in a self-complete way. Revolution doesn¡¯t always destroy everything and nothing wrong with that. Of course there are questions unanswered but even the first Matrix leave many questions unanswered, it¡¯s typical Matrixy. You need to figure out by yourself. And I will be very happy if they make more animatrix, comics and games.
As for the special effect and battle scenes, they are entertaining. The pacing is better than Roloaded. When I was watching the movie all the audience in my theatre hold their breath till the end. And all my friends like it. I don¡¯t understanding why people hate it so much. If only they would think again, they will find The Revolution is a good movie. Time will tell.
I admit when I read the early bad reviews a few days ago, my faith to the Matrix shaken. Now I really feel shame about those moments, because I allowed myself to be effected by other¡¯s reviews. The only way to understand Matrix is to see it for yourself.