It was good, but it could have been so much better...

Rating: 6/10 (7 November 2003)

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I remember coming out of that second Matrix on a cool June night with my friends, my dad, and my brother. We were excited... the movie was confusing, not quite as groundbreaking as the first... but we had so many questions! There were answers, and we expected them to come in the great Third Movie.
I saw Revolutions... and not only did it not answer my previous questions, I have more than I did before.
I miss The Matrix. I mean, the world itself. This movie was too dark... the Matrix somehow became populated by a bunch of Agent Smiths. Did he take over the whole thing... in Matrix Reloaded he just had about 100 men, and now it looks like he's taken over everything? How did that all happen in 24 hours? Did all of his men start creating more Smiths? Or can only he copy himself into others?
This movie lacked any real substance... there were some good action/fight scenes, but they really didn't tie together too well at all. Neo's fight with Smith was cool.. but it lost the appeal of the first two movies. It seemed more like they were dancing around in the sky than trying to fight each other.
The Battle with Zion was amazing, but it didn't really add anything to the movie. It seemed like we knew the humans were going to lose no matter what. Though that huge swarm of sentiles. That was really nice to watch. I would say the Battle of Zion is the best part of this whole movie, but the problem is they added too many minor characters and shrunk many of the major parts.
Morpheus has gone from some super-hero to a low-ranking captain on a ship. Naobi is the only interesting character added since the first movie. A lot of the characters added in the last two movies have just seemed to be there to add more challenge to the plot and make the movies longer.
They could have easily made these two sequels into one and cut out a lot of the unimportant crap and some characters.
It seems like a lot of the characters they added are just like random encounters in a Final Fantasy video game, annoying, repetitive, and they slow down the plot.
The ending didn't seem to end it. The architect says, "Those who choose to be free, will be." Or something like that.
I found it mediocore. I know there are some people, mostly teenagers, who think this movie is "mind-blowingly awesome." You know the type. They talk like they have smoked a lot of marijuana when they haven't, and they describe everything as "totally deep." I didn't get the "deeper meaning" of this movie... except that I think it could have been better.