Jesus was Version .83

Rating: 4/10 (5 November 2003)

First off I wouldn't say Revolutions is a bad move, it's an average movie. What makes it bad is it belongs to a trilogy that opened with an amazing movie The Matrix. The Matrix opened up an amazing world for fans, drawing on what appeared to be the sense of self doubt in all of humanity. The Animatrix continued on to explain the unexplainable, Déjà vu, hallucinations, ghosts and hauntings. Reloaded continues in this vein decently presenting even stronger religious symbolism and eastern philosophies , yes there are people who disagree, yet the redeeming quality of Reloaded was any unanswered questions would be closed in Revolutions. Revolutions fails this task horribly. Instead we are presented with more questions, (Why would a program born of two programs have to get into the Matrix? How does a place exist somewhere outside of the Matrix and outside of reality, and why do we present it if we're going to spend all of ten minutes there?). Instead the Wachowski brothers take us on scenes designed to simply take up film such as Club Hell. Where we witness a twisted repeat version of the Zion celebration without any apparent meaning other than to show off flesh in leather. (Who's being divorced because of S&M and cross-dressing?).
We move from there to have a high speed Mechwarrior movie that's too fast to follow and where every secondary character runs into every other one to make some grand life giving sacrifice, three times over. Neo, in his new role as Paul in Herbert's Messiah, decides to have the final showdown where low and behold, all those non-Christian tie ins that have been flaunted, well those were just glamour's, instead Neo proves to us in blinding white orange light that Jesus was just version .83 The overall problem with the series is we've been presented with a plot that shows remarkable presentation of detail, to the point where everyone watching is asking right along with Neo `Why?' only to have all those questions if not ignored, disregarded with a shrug by the Architect a member of a race of machines that can kill, think, love, but yet not lie. There are those who will argue that it's an action movie just there for high flying kicks and fun. If that's the case, the series should have omitted `Wake up Neo' and just closed with the first movie.