Overwrought nonsense

Rating: 3/10 (7 May 2004)

With five hours of set-up established in the two previous movies you'd expect The Matrix Revolutions to be action from start to finish. Wrong! It's the same long bore as with Reloaded. After about forty scenes with long, pretentious dialogue the film then delivers...more scenes of gibberish exposition. The Wachowskis probably think/wish that it has some deep meaning, but it really is just mumbo-jumbo.
Neo now has the ability to use some of his Matrix powers in the real world, while a copy of Agent Smith has 'possessed' one of the humans. Hundreds of thousands of Sentinels are just feet away from breaking into Zion, and the digital Agent Smith takes over the entire Matrix after overwriting the Oracle.
The Zion battle with the Mechs and Sentinels is kind of exciting, but it's the only part of this 129-minute movie that will quicken your pulse. The rest threatens to stop it permanently. There's plenty of CGI, some it good (the Sentinels) some it horrible (anything with Neo and Smith). The fight scenes are now just a bore. Watching people walk on the ceiling while firing guns doesn't excite me. Watching people slam into wall and making a big hole got old the first hundred times it happened too.
You've never seen a film with such unjustifiable delusions of grandeur. The Matrix universe had so much potential, but the Wachowskis squandered it. I will never watch this film again. Twice (with a nine-year gap between those viewings) was more than enough.