Just a bunch of cgi-scenes, or an actual movie?

Rating: 7/10 (6 November 2003)

Hmm what can I say? Was this just a bunch of nice cgi-scenes, or an actual movie? Pretty weak compared to the first movie in terms of plot. Even the second movie was better (even with its boring first half of almost nothing but Zion crap). If you like me, enjoy it when they are inside the matrix, like they were a lot in the first movie- and to some extent in the second movie, you'll hate this movie. It takes place mostly in ZZzzZZion, although this time it's action that takes place there, and not long drama-like-your-mom-watches-on-tv scenes, like in the second movie. But I want to see stuff going on inside the matrix, not it that craphole of a supposedly "real" world they live in. Also, the few scenes that did take place with people actually jacked into the matrix, seemed like poorly designed maps from some random game. You didn't get the feeling that they were in a virtual reality representation of a whole planet. The worst part of this movie, was that in the previous two movies, the brothers had chosen a track by Rage Against The Machine to be played as the credits rolled. They didn't in this one! Major bummer! I was looking forward to hearing what track they had chosen, and so were many others.
All in all this isn't a bad movie, and as it is a part of a trilogy in which the loose ends are wrapped up, it is essential to watch. They should have waited, and released all three movies as one movie, with all the crap cut out.
If Neo is "The One", then who is "The Zero"? It was who I expected it to be...