Biggest Let Down Ever (SPOILERS)

Rating: 1/10 (6 November 2003)

This would have been a cool movie, if it would have had a plot that could hold a candle to the first movie. The ending makes you wonder if the director was told he was running out of film (or CG computing...) and the movie had to end in 5 minutes. (I know! He'll explode! It'll make perfect sense....) Neo develops even more ridiculous abilities that aren't grounded unless you believe he's some type of demigod. In the first movie, his powers are explained in a way that is very logical. The Matrix is a virtual reality, and is defined by rules. Rules that can be bent because nothing is real. The second movie gives him an affinity with machines (i guess)... that lets him see machine entities in some type of red glowing-ness. But the third movie? Come on! When he loses his eyesight, and starts blowing up squids by the thousands, its just stupid. It doesn't make any sense at all. I was waiting for some awesome revelation, maybe that the world of zion was part of the matrix, and that could explain Neo's increasing powers. Also, what happened to the Frenchman? He decides he wants the eyes of the oracle in the first five minutes, is told no at gunpoint, and is never seen again. Ridiculously bad scripting! You don't introduce a villain and then leave him out of the plot and forget about him. Also the ending conversation between the Architect and the Oracle made me want to burn my ticket. Whoever wrote this movie obviously didn't see the first one. The Architect agrees to free the humans...but...HUMANS ARE THE POWER SUPPLY THAT KEEPS THE MACHINES ALIVE! Remember Morpheus' discussion involving the battery in the first movie? If the humans are freed, the Machines will all die. They lost their solar power because the sky was destroyed! The Matrix has my $5.25 and I intend to free it.