Everything that has a great beginning has a terrible end...

Rating: 2/10 (5 November 2003)

This was a complete cinematic travesty. I'm hoping this is an elaborate joke by the W. Brothers, and they'll release the REAL conclusion next week or something.
***SPOILERS AHEAD***
First, the beginning is completely nonsensical. I wasn't a big fan of Reloaded, but I liked the Architect scene, and the ending cliffhanger. THe cliffhanger is resolved in about ten seconds with all the drama and mystery of an episode of Scooby-Doo, and as far as I can tell, none of the characters even remember the Architect, as everyone proceeds along their current path as if it never happened.
The Battle for Zion scenes were OK. I thought the 10-second sidestory with the teenager kissing Neo's ass in Reloaded (his name slips my mind, as I'm sure it has yours) and LInk's girlfriend wasn't really necessary and detracts from the plot, simply removing the focus from the main story arc.
All the "causality" and "choice" focus from the second one is gone, with only a few references that don't make much sense in context. None of the loose ends from reloaded are really satisfactorily resolved.
I'm not sure what Morpheus is doing in this movie. It would actually have been a bit better if he had been Smith-cloned at the end of the second one, as he has no real part in this one. None. I'm not even sure if they wrote any dialogue for him, or just told him to hang around the set until the end credits and let him improv the dialogue.
The final fight was pretty cool, action-wise. The dialogue was silly and the resolution of the conflict even sillier.
Finally, the ending made me want to throw up. I'm not going into further detail, simply because I feel nauseous just thinking about it.
Everyone's going to see this movie, simply because it's the final Matrix movie. But trust me, you'll be much happier if you just pretend it never came out and let your imagination finish the story for you.