Awesome and unsatisfying at the same time, they could have done with 2 movies

Rating: 9/10 (9 November 2003)

May contain minor spoilers!
Yesterday I watched Matrix Revolutions at the IMAX cinema and was amazed and disappointed at the same time. First of all, IMAX is the way to watch this movie - it's the future of cinema. Not only is the image much bigger, also the image quality is far superior to conventional cinemas. (Actually when watching the IMAX version of Reloaded I spent more time counting the bumps in Fishburns skin than paying attention to the plot.) If you have the opportunity to watch it in IMAX, leave your PC now and do it!!!
Now for the movie, let's start with the positives:
The special effects are groundbreaking. Every once in a while there is a movie that delivers never before seen visual effects and goes into history for being ahead of it's time (in technical matters). The late 70s had Star Wars, the early 90s had Terminator 2, 2003 has Revolutions. The battle for Zion scene is the most amazing special effects scene I've seen so far. I thought with the common use of CG in many action movies today it was almost impossible to create something so amazing, it could reach this milestone status of the two movies mentioned above. But gladly the Wachowskis proofed me wrong. It's the new benchmark for all sci-fi action movies to come.
Effects-wise it's all I had hoped the new Star Wars movies or Terminator 3 would be.
Now for the bad things:
The big clarifying end I hoped for is missing. You'll easily leave the movie with even more questions unanswered than after the first two parts. This left me very unsatisfied. And the outcome of all this is that Reloaded is an obsolete movie. No character introduced in Reloaded and no plot parts were really necessary to reach this ending. With some minor adaptions in the beginning of the plot of Revolutions you easily could have done without the second part of the trilogy.
For example the Merovingian and all characters related to him are absolutely unnecessary. Yes, they provided for some nice special effect scenes, but cut out all of the subplot around him and it wouldn't change anything about the outcome of the trilogy.
So since I'm a fan of sci-fi action cinema I rate this movie 9/10 since it's a 2 hour audiovisual thrillride (even more in the IMAX).
If you're more interested in the philosophical aspects of the movie and were looking for answers you will be very disappointed. Also with the final scene the Wachowskis threw the door wide, wide open for another Matrix movie.