Matrix: devolution

Rating: Null/10 (14 March 2004)

What happened? Compared to the original Matrix, the second movie really sucked: boring, wasteful, pretentious, beating around the bushes and recycling concepts from the first movie trying in vane to make them fresh and interesting again.
With the third installation of the cycle the Wachowski bros. give up any pretension of sophistication and trendyness. Except for some quick oracle mumbo-jumbo, all questions on the nature of reality raised in the second movie are now ignored and left unresolved. Controversy among the Zion rebels disappears, and even don't look here for steamy rave scenes or the sexual innuendos of chapter 2.
All is left is the massive computer animated scenes of the battle for Zion, and the worst feel-good speeches and dialogues since ID4, which resonate too much with the dumb 9/11 rhetoric of late. Scary empty movie from and for a scary culture.