Back to Back to the Future Part 3!

Rating: 6/10 (11 November 2003)

Since first seeing The Matrix in 1999, I have been an avid Matrix-phile, I have done everything that the Brothers have told me to do to appreciate the entire Matrix Saga. I have Matrix, Revisited & Reloaded on DVD, bought and played "Enter the Matrix" Video game and watched the Animatrix hundreds of times over, after all of this expenditure and anticipation for "Revolutions" I feel that I have been totally dupped by the Brothers and WB / Village Roadshow.
The only way to accuratley describe "Revolutions" without spoiling it for anyone, is to equate it to Back to the Future 3 (The first film to be made back to back with BTTF2). Remember the first BTTF, how kewl it was and how it got us all interested in Time travel and the characters of Marty, Doc, Biff and Marty's parents. Then they announced they were to make BTTF 2 & 3 with a cliffhanger at the end of 2. I remember coming out of the cinema after BTTF2 amazed at what had been achieved and where they took the story (as I did with Reloaded after expecting "Matrix Squad" as a sequel). Then when BTTF3 was released I couldn't wait to see how they were going to expand on the premisses they had set up in Part 2 and conclude the series. The dissapointment I felt after watching BTTF3 can only be equated to how I felt when I walked out of Matrix Revolutions. It is as if the brothers spent all the budget they had for both movies on Reloaded and then slapped Revolutions together to meet the deadline they (and the Studio) had set themselves and the fact that they knew everyone would go to see it regardless as they had to see the conclusion.
Revolutions feels as if there is 30 mins of extra footage missing (or that this movie was a decoy and the "real" conclusion to Matrix is yet to come). It is obvious that whatever budget was left to conclude the series was used on CG Effects for the battle of Zion.....the actors look and sound tired, the story seems weak, the ending is almost corney and apart from the blatant Christian propaganda, the painfully obvious opening for for further sequels is just a sad inditment on the state of the Hollywood Movie Machine that no longer makes Motion Pictures, just money making franchises.......

In a word.......Dissapointing!