a fitting end...

Rating: 9/10 (8 November 2003)

There are many disappointed people, I can see their disappointment but at the same time I don't think they should be, the writers knew how they wanted this film to end and the end was fitting to the story. The style of the film wasn't continuous with the bullet time and the kung fu of the first 2. But I don't necessarily disprove of this course because the 3rd film is very different from the first 2, there is more at stake outside of the matrix and so of course you are never going to be able to have the same action (not necessarily worse) in the real world.
The end wasn't spectacular, story wise, and I am sure that it didn't end how many would have expected. Many say it could not have ended any other way but of course that is not true. I don't dislike the ending because when I look back on the whole story I take from this film that we live by the consequences of our choices. It is this theme which I find explains the ending nicely. I don't want to spoil it for anyone but hopefully those who have seen the film know what I mean.
Overall, the whole story I find extremely creative and I whole-heartedly thank the writers for such a captivating idea. My personal feeling is I don't feel happy at the end, I feel how I should, but I know I have experienced one of the greatest stories of all time and for that I feel pleased that I have seen it and understood it. It's funny how we go through life and enjoy a good story in our spare time, and how emotionally we become attached to them; I will never believe, even those who say they disliked this, that they would have preferred to have wasted their time doing something else, it was ingenious. I liked this story and I liked this conclusion it was extremely entertaining throughout and instead of saying "could this really have ended any other way" I say, "they picked the right ending".
-Ritch