When good ideas go bad in the fridge..

Rating: 5/10 (19 August 2016)

So we come at last to the third part in a once promising SF series. After endless cod philosophy rot, bloodless Xbox battles in Matrix Reloaded and more pointless dialogue scenes than Phantom Menace (Another film that failed on almost every level).
And speaking of battles, let's discuss battle fatigues. It's action movie 101. When you constantly have armies yelling "Raaaahhhhh!!!" at machines while shooting more bullets than John Rambo and John Matrix combined, man does it get old fast. The Wachowskis should've taken lessons from Peter Jackson's Two Towers. In the middle of the melee of Helm's Deep, it cuts to Treebeard with fellow ents, talking to hobbits.
The point is, you have to give the audience time to breath or they suffer from ennui. It's exhausting sitting through the last 38 minutes of battles in Zion, battles with sentinels, battles with agent Smith. Sure, it's all very slick and well choreographed, but it's like being beaten over the head with a 2×4 while playing PlayStation.
I understand movie goers want a big action spectacle finale, but not this excessive. it goes on for waaaay too long. By the halfway point, I just didn't care anymore. Neither did the rest of the audience.