Unimaginative, Tired Conclusion to the Trilogy

Rating: 4/10 (19 December 2005)

"The Matrix: Revolutions" devolves the trilogy into conventional sci fi, with very expensive special effects that go on and on.
I would have liked more imagination -- the evil machines sure looked like The Borg Queen (with a similar concluding plot twist from "Star Trek"), while the good guys' machines looked like the gangly mechanical attackers from one of the "Star Wars" movies so I kept losing track amidst the extensive blasting which blaster I was supposed to be rooting for.
The romance, which is my favorite part of the series as a humanistic element, is at least still there, just way reduced to a tragic level I appreciated best when I was 12 years old, complete with bombastic musical theme. I almost did sigh at "Trinity's" declaration: "Six hours ago I told Merovingian I would do anything for you. You know what's changed in six hours? Absolutely nothing." Not that there's anything wrong with appealing to pre-teens like that these days.
The music finally picks up at the conclusion, being redolent of "Carmina Burana," probably to recall the orgy in Zion scene from "The Matrix Reloaded."
All in all, it was better than "Starship Troopers."
(originally written 11/12/2003)