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Rating: 5/10 (20 November 2003)

!!!!!SPOILERS AHEAD!!!!!!!!
The weirdest thing happened while I was in the cinema with my friend. In the scene where Trinity is talking to Neo for the last time people started talking and giggling. More than half the hall I suspect. It was actually quite funny and surreal and I didn't blame them one bit, it actually probably helped us all to get through the "Revolutions" a bit faster. How the hell did they shift the series from being the don't-make-its-stop-`now` :) movies to the please-somebody,-make-it-end-before-the-cup-holder-gets-over-filled-with-my -vomit. I'm kidding, it's not that bad, I never ever fill it up the whole way. But the "Revolutions" still reeks! I briefly read some reviews before seeing it and most of them were negative, which was much better than the opposite because then I'd have bigger expectations which ALMOST always just ruin the movie experience. So bear in mind, I enjoyed the first two movies immensely but I am not a die hard fan of the Matrix nor it's story, the one single thing I was expecting, naturally, was the blaster over-the-top and again incomprehensively unprecedented cinematography and special effects. Naturally. "Should I stop now, or does this sentence speak for itself. And if it does, would it still have done so had I not mentioned it." Sound silly, sound confused. Yes, yes, we're learning.

"Forget the rules that apply to the "Matrix" series, come November they apply no more.' Whoa! "I'm trying to free your mind, Theo. But I can only show you the door. You're the one that has to walk through it." Yeah. Well, that sounds like a pretty good deal. But I think I may have a better one. How about, I give you the finger, and then you give me what I want. " Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself. " Well, here I am, buster. I saw the first part. I saw "Reloaded' and the "Animatrix", what more do you want me to do??? `Stand up and see for yourself.' What? Why? It's not like that's gonna make one hell of a difference. Are you telling me that when I stand up I'll know what I want? That I'll know what you want me to do? `No, Theo. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.' English... `Have you ever had a dream, Theo, that you were so sure was real? What if you were unable to wake from that dream? How would you know the difference between the dream world and the real world?
Easy, my mom' d wake me up for breakfast. `I know exactly what you mean!' -'The answer is out there, Theo, and it's looking for you, and it will find you if you want it to.'- Who are you? I don't know you!? -'Most guys do.'- ??? What the... -'Please Theo, you have to trust me.'- Why? `-I know why you're here, Theo. I know what you've been doing... why you hardly sleep, why you live alone, and why night after night, you sit by your computer. You're looking for him. I know because I was once looking for the same thing. And when he found me, he told me I wasn't really looking for him. I was looking for an answer. It's the question, Theo. It's the question that drives us. It's the question that brought you here. You know the question, just as I did.'-...............! Yes!!! YES!!! I knew it! I knew it all along!. I knew the rumors were true!!! Muahaha. I was right all along!!!I knew it, I knew it, I knew it!!!!!!!!! In your face mom! -'What's he doing?'- `He's beginning to believe.' This is amazing... it's more than amazing....it's phenomenal!!!!!! I finally get to know the answer to THE question! And to think I almost gave up. OK, OK, guys, so tell me. How DOES Santa Claws manage to bring gifts and presents to every kid in the world in one night? `...??????' -'...!...'-...Come on, tell me!... What?...... Why are you looking at me like that. What'd I do??? Oh don't start with the silent treatment NOW! After all that fancy babble. I WANT TO KNOW THE TRUTH!!!!!!!!!!!!!! `Were you listening to me, Theo?!!!! Or were you looking at the woman in the red dress?!!!!' First of all - I was not looking at Santa because he's not even here right now, I think you need to take off those broken-ass shades and No.2 - he aint no woman!, you really should check with your friends on that one. I mean really What's the matter with you guys, first YOU tell me I can get my answers if I just stand up? and then SHE starts talking about my life like she can see through my mind or something, teasing me with YOU KNOW WHO. I'm starting to think you don't want to help me at all. So what's it gonna be? Give me one reason why I should even bother giving you more of my time. ......'You are the One, Theo. You see, you may have spent the last few years looking for me, but I have spent my entire life looking for you.' OK....a bit freaky and not very true, but whatever rocks your boat. Go on `You have the look of a man who accepts what he sees because he is expecting to wake up. Ironically, that's not far from the truth. ` Just show me the damn truth, fruitcake `You've been living in a dream world, Theo. Free your mind.' Okey dokey.. free my mind. Right, no problem, free my mind, free my mind, no problem, right... ........
Jesus Why do my eyes hurt? "Welcome to the real world."
Totally missed the point there. Just like this movie. Those fans searching for answers will be let down immensely, those expecting a fulfilling ending will curse the Wachowski brothers for not at least going for (somebody up there forgive me)your typical Hollywood-ish ending(their anime-ish depressive final showdown between Neo and Smith(even the great Hugo Weaving doesn't seem as brilliant as before)is overblown and disappointing as is the even more depressing and stupid ending where man makes peace with machines and nobody even expects Neo to return(some friends, huh)-they all simultaneously assume and conclude he didn't make it.), those(me including) expecting your average highly above average and beautiful cinematography and fx will be crying for years to come(sure the fight between robots and humans is great, but certainly not better than the major effects in the first two movies) and those expecting good performances by most of the supporting actors should have known better. Tank and Dozer made sure of that bridge burning in the first one. From the very first Matrix it was always the "real world" scenes, be it on the Nebuchadnezer or in Zion, that were the worst, they made the first movie not as fantastic as it could have been and they sucked the first half hour of "Reloaded". "Revolutions" is hardly anything else than just this - 85 percent of the movie takes place in the real world. There's a whole different feel to the movie, no beautiful sceneries, no worth-mentioning cinematography that made the biggest impression on me and many others. It was a plain action movie without substance or stlye! DID I SAY THAT? I have to face the truth, this was the 2nd biggest sequel disappointment of my cinematic life. I'm still working on my comment for "T3".
The Wachowskis failed on every level and people will hate them for that. I hate them for that. I hate them for unintentionally ruining their own movie. Their own. It takes talent to do that. Especially if you spawn a movie such as the brilliant Matrix and then return with a great sequel.
The whole cinematic world was expecting the very best from these two, it was going to be the biggest thing in 2003 and the most important trilogy in recent memory(I'm not counting LOTR movies because they're based on books) "Revolutions" is very unbalanced and has numerous meaningless scenes, like the first half hour(deja vu I guess). And when you want a Matrix movie to end you know something's not right.
I predict "Revolutions" will fail to amount more that "Reloaded", hell, I think it'll have a hard time breaching the 200 million mark in the USA. The same pattern happened with the "Back To The Future" series. The first one was an immense hit, an instant cult movie, the second and third were made simultaneously and came to theaters 6 months apart, but because of the not-so-hot response to the second one(because it was reportedly too complicated) the third one (in my mind also the weakest in the series) earned less that it did. The trilogy could have easily been the Star Wars of our generations, but the final part is unforgivingly bad and will be haunting the Wachowskis for a long long time. It just makes me wish they had left the original Matrix movie stand alone. I actually quite like(d) the idea of having the free choice to decide what and how and when and etc. happens to the machines. Having destiny in your own hands, remember. Sad isn't it, they fail at the core of the message that so persistently drove them. It's only now that I realized it. 5/10 DID I WRITE THAT?