Revolutions: Spinning it's wheels. *spoilers*

Rating: Null/10 (29 November 2003)

The trailer for the Return of the King was shown prior to my viewing of Revolutions and all during the movie i kept thinking about Frodo and Aragorn and knowing it would far surpass the conclusion to the Matrix Trilogy. It was hard not to think of middle earth during the final installment of the matrix. Amidst the confusing twists and turns the story in revolutions was taking i had to find a happy place in my head and that was to enter the matrix of Gondor and Mordor.
I refused to see the original matrix for almost two years because of Keanu Reeves until at last someone gave me a copy of the movie and i decided i had better see what all the fuss was about. I watched it four times in a row that saturday. It was pure genious. I didn't mind reloaded at all but for the 20 minute orgy in zion. I thought for a minute there that clips of The real Cancun was being spliced into the film. From that scene i couldn't believe there was anyone older than thirty in zion.
So Revolutions came with a lot of hype and i generally liked the film for its wonderful images and thousands of sentinels pouring into the last human settlement. I thought the fights were still stellar with all the same quality as the first two films. It was great how Smith infiltrated the real world. But the ending was as disturbing as the remake of The Island of Dr. Moreau with Val Kilmer.
Nothing was resolved! So Neo brings peace, for how long? Are all humans released from their comatose baths in that pink jelly? Is zion rebuilt and humans learn to be sewer dwellers like in CHUD? What is really won by all of this? Do the Architect and the Oracle find time to be alone together? It just makes no sense except for the producers to count ticket sales and to announce, "Yes! We have enough to do a fourth installment!" That's the real wool over our eyes. If the matrix is at all real in our world... it's name is Hollywood and the machines are the producers and movie makers that force us to be plugged into their creations to give them life.

Funny, i almost fell for the advertisement before return of the king that plead with the audience to end movie piracy. That's just part of the revolution, i suppose. I think the vision of the Matrix was unlike anything else, but perhaps they should have taken an extra 15 minutes to give better closure to the climactic events that were revealed in this film. I couldn't give a better review, but maybe the two seven year olds sitting behind me in the theater will leave their comments.