Major Disappointment

Rating: 2/10 (30 December 2003)

I so wanted to like, nay LOVE, this movie, but I just couldn't.
Understand, I loved the original Matrix. It easily ranks in my top 10 movies of all time. Reloaded was also an awesome picture, albeit too long and too slow in some points. The Freeway chase is one of the greatest action sequences ever filmed as far as I am concerned.
Revolutions, however, was an unmitigated Turkey!
Slow to the point of ponderous, dull (except for the attack on Zion - the only good bit in the movie), and just plain ridiculous at the end (the effects looked so bad in some parts of the fight scene between Smith and Neo that they reminded me of the Wicked Witch of the West flying on her broomstick!); I couldn't find anything to love about this movie. It was such a letdown after the awesome set up of the first two. Did no one tell the Wachowskis that the third film in a trilogy is supposed to top the two that came before?
In my opinion, doing two sequels was unnecessary. If they had have condensed the story slightly (and let's face it, there was barely enough story for one movie between the two sequels as it was), included the Freeway chase and the attack on Zion as the two major action sequences (perhaps shortened slightly), and used the burly brawl as the final fight, then The Matrix would have had a fitting finale.
What's wrong with a 'duology' anyway?