Lets be real, its an OK film

Rating: 5/10 (10 April 2004)

Time to fall somewhere between all the other comments, it seems that everyone is looking for something specific, but me being interested, but not enamored with SFX, religious connections, or some great deeper meaning, I thought I could provide some "regular filmgoer" thoughts.
First, it is a good movie, but not something to watch unless you have seem Reloaded. Since it opens with no recap, someone that missed the second film would be completely lost. I did prefer Reloaded because I like the new charactors introduced, the Frenchman, Seraph, the Architect, and the Keymaker. All of them were solid and made me interested in what may be happening next. I developed an attachment to each, even if they were bad guys. Revolutions give us some new, but uninteresting people, I didn't care about most of the people in Zion so why should I care if they win? The Wachowski's seem to write better Matrix type people then real people.
Next, though the SFX were very cool, the move was so dark it was hard to visually take them all in. The fight scene for control of Zion was nice, though a tad too long in my opinion. I thought this war would be won in the Matrix, but after about the first half of the film we were never returned to the place the entire series began...what is with that? It's the Matrix, without the matrix.
Neo's final fight with Smith seemed pointless, Neo could not win, but I guess that was the point. To destroy Smith, Neo had to be assimilated (the Borg would be so proud) so the machines could gain control of the program Smith. By the way, is Neo dead? in another coma? or just a program? Someone help me on this?
Finally, We found out in the second movie that Neo was just the most recent "One," each time a matrix is created another "One" comes with it. Therefore won't this whole thing just keep happening over and over? Yes, billions will now be freed, but where will they go? Zion appeared a tad overcrowded already and the machines, though at peace for the moment, don't seem ready to give some of their beautifully landscaped territory to the humans that have already tried to destroy them once.
So, it is a good film, but I prefer the other two based on the matrix action. Will enjoy the day I buy them all and sit and watch them back to back to back...maybe more of this will make sense!