Wachowskis' Worst! This film should self-destruct!

Rating: 1/10 (12 November 2003)

A wise man once said, if you don't have anything special to say, don't say anything. The Wachowski Brothers could have done well by heeding that adage. Matrix Revolutions, like Matrix Reloaded, is a hodgepodge of confusing and divergent thoughts that make absolutely no sense, with an ending that was an incoherent letdown. All it had going for it was the CGI. The producers should have taken the blue pill and forgotten about any thoughts of making these two lame sequels to one of the greatest science fiction films ever made.
I had great hopes for the two sequels. Had I been in charge, I would have written it this way:
In Matrix Reloaded, Neo and company awaken the rest of the world. Forget Zion. Bring us fresh new characters we learn to care for. One by one, people are taken out of their "real world" and into the harsh realm of the Matrix. Some are angry at Neo. Some are angry at the machines. Others are helpless. (By the way, if these people were named in the "real" world" why do they have names like Neo and Trinity and Morpheus?) Herein, though, comes the realization by millions of individuals that everything they have come to believe is real is not. Of course, the awakening means that the machines have lost their batteries. Enter Agent Jones. A female computer program pawn that enters the "real world" taking over one of the human's minds in the Matrix and competing for Neo. Neo falls in love. She doesn't even know she's really a machine. Neo finds out. But destroying the machines means destroying her. What will he choose?
In Matrix Revolutions, the war then begins...man vs machine. But here we discover that the "real world" is only one more level of the Matrix. Are the machines really machines? Who or what is behind it all? What is real? Neo discovers the answer. But without revelation, there the story ends, leaving us to dwell on what might be.
Sometimes writers only have one story in them and I think this was the case with the Wachowski brothers.