What a waste of money and time!

Rating: 1/10 (5 April 2004)

POSSIBLE SPOILERS
This movie reflects what I would call questionable values and world-view, meaning that we are led to believe that nothing has really developed in the future and the world is still based on muscles, violence and the myth of Christ (the 'chosen' one). We can actually get to see God in this who looks like the laughing Baby in the Teletubbies. I belong to the large group of people that enjoyed the first part of Matrix - its intelligent twists, its freshness, visual effects and depth. Then comes the follow-up with money, violence and tits. What a waste of money and time. I did not see the 2nd part because was advised not to see it, but out of curiosity watched the final part on a plane. It was so bad and so offensive to intelligence that watching it almost made me mad.
This movie is based on movie cliches (bad writing), stereotypes (one-dimensional characters)and special effects of music videos(lack of plot). Not much has changed in the world - women still dress up like in R&B music videos (does Monica Bellucci have any other meaning in the movie that to show her tits - I recall that she is considered a talented actress in Italy but here she can only show her body parts - the black female pilot, Jada Pinkett, is the typical 'tomboy' character that gets to 'kick guy's butt' - still, in a close-up you get to see her breasts under her shirt - was that really necessary? you need to be sexy to drive really fast?). The couples are strickly non-inter-racial (so strange that assuming that in the future there will be much more 'mixture' between people from different ethnics) and the 'real action' is still led by men and by men only.
And the world peace is resolved in a (physical) fight between between good and evil. The movie reflects Christian values and sacrifice (Neo sacrifices himself for the greater good), just that non-violence is not an issue since the chosen one is to guy who can hit harder and faster. I found the last scene not visually stunning but boring without any surprise - a scene that thas been repeated a million times in the history of the cinema. This is not the Matrix (the first part), that was setting some questions, intelligent plot-lines and interesting characters (there we had at least a couple of women that contibuted equally to the action) - no, this is a Steven Seagul-film in a prettier wrap. The depth of the plot and characters is from a B or C-class action movie with stunningly stupid dialogue. And then we have this Christ, this leader that wanders from place to place looking like he did not have a clue, has nothing interesting to say and then is ready to show his muscles when the time comes. Pathetic.