A splinter on your mind

Rating: Null/10 (8 November 2003)

some spoilers ahead!
What is so great about the whole matrix saga is that it leaves a lot of room for discussion. you may hate it or love it (as i do) but they will surely haunt you.
A great movie should entertain, and should make its audiences think and be confuse about a lot of things, and the matrix revolutions has accomplished all of the above. True it is not as great as the first one, as it doesn't create much of suspense. There is that expectation that there it's gonna be a war movie and there would be a lot of casualties. The FX and the cgi are stunning and surely breathtaking. I did wish though that they should have continuously adapted the simplicity that the first movie adhered into.
There are a lot of confusing ideas in the Matrix Revolution, as many commentators have pointed out already. The tag line itself is very confusing. Every beginning has an end.. But which beginning are they referring to? The matrix, the program that enslaves most humans didn't actually end. Morpheus at the first movie said that in order to free humanity is to destroy the matrix. (By the way I agree that it really sucks that the character of Morpheus was reduced to a Neo fanatic and the aura of authority he possessed in the first movie was overshadowed by Niobe. It's great though that they are empowering women characters.) What Neo accomplished is to destroy Agent Smith(a virus who wanted to end both the human world and the machine world), and to negotiate peace with the machines. I guess everybody is expecting that the matrix will be destroyed or maybe humanity being destroyed or maybe both. It makes me realize now, somehow, how we or some of us are deeply fascinated with destruction and non-existence.
There are a lot of things to ponder about The Matrix saga. Love it or hate it but try to think about it.