If only they have taken it one step further...

Rating: Null/10 (6 November 2003)

Having been bitterly disappointed with Matrix Reloaded, I went to see this last installment with much lower expectations. My first impression was: better than Reloaded, not quite up to the original. This movie is by far the least mystical in the series, more on the «let it all hang out» side. Everything is now shown and revealed. This movie is visually stunning, quick paced, action packed extravaganza that doesn't suffer from pointless, boring, never-ending scenes as Reloaded did.
*Spoilers*
I do have a problem with it, though. And that is in the half-a** resolution in the end, a seaming peace that is no real victory. Originally I wanted Neo to destroy the machines, liberate mankind, restore the world.... but then I reconsidered.
Having read another viewer's comment I understand why that wouldn't be right: Neo is and must be the savior of all: men and machines/programs made in human image alike. However, I wish they have taken it just one step further.
The scene with him and Trinity flying into the scorched skies, over the clouds where sun still shines had such potential for a proper resolution: after Neo defeated Agent Smith (liberating the machines from him), brokered peace between Zion and Matrix and died, he should have been revealed as truly «the One» - the one who can (no longer living in flesh) restore the skies and truly liberate both machines and men: machines would have been given the proper power source and be truly free of their need of men as power sources, and men would be free to live alongside the machines.

«Machine City» and «Human City» would coexist as two civilizations living in peace, and the Matrix would no longer be a prison but a world that bridges the two: where programs live and people can visit and exchange knowledge and experiences. This is the ending I would like to see as the proper resolution to this story.
Still, I give this one 8/10.