A 2 hour and 9 minute movie where the 9 minutes kill it...(only one minor spoiler in here)

Rating: Null/10 (6 November 2003)

By far, this movie for the first two hours was matching the first Matrix in excitment. I had heard all the reviews, heard all the disappointments, and went in with low expectations based upon that. About an hour into it, I was thinking, "what are they all talking about, this movie is incredible." While Morpheus takes on a different role in this movie then the previous two, and while new characters emerge and others take a back burner, I was engrossed into it just the same. Minor spoiler -> (I felt the acting in just one scene in the first two hours, was pretty poor, where the boy, who is 16, tries to pass as 18 and join the "army".) But, other than that, the plot, score, choreography, and acting was superb. BUT THEN, that last 9 minutes or so of the movie. So much could have been done different in this movie to conclude the trilogy. Did not we all expect the movie to end with a strange twist similar to how it all began? Well, at least that's what I was thinking. I don't want to spoil the ending so I won't reveal any spoilers. I do want to say this though. I think that the ending SHOULD HAVE BEEN something like this... "Neo and Trinity jack in prior to going to the "machine world", once they realize that Smith must be defeated before its too late and before Smith takes over everything. Neo and Trinity battle Smith together as Smith has gotten so powerful and Smith gives Trinity a blow that essentially all but kills her as she is on her last breaths. Smith, with his witty and dry humor tells Neo that it must hurt feeling the human emotion of love as he watches her die. Neo then looks within himself and discovers another source of power so strong that he uses it to defeat Agent Smith forever. Neo hobbles over to Trinity and tells her he can't do this alone and touches her with his hands and gives her life once again. He and trinity come out of being jacked in to the Matrix and take the ship to the machine world where they find the central source of what has scarred the sky and and has changed the face of the planet. Basically the brain or the machines and the source of the machines power. Along the way there, Neo must use his inner power to stop attacks from the machines coming at them and grows stronger as he does this. Neo and Trinity realize that they must use the machine on the ship which kills all machines and renders them useless. Neo and Trinity crash the ship after sustaining too much damage just outside the permiter of where the central unit of this machine world is. Neo and Trinity carry the "weapon" towards the central unit and in one final battle between machines and man, Neo discovers he has full use of the "powers" he has in the Matrix, in this world also. In the last scene, we see a simulatneous scene where all the machines surround Neo and Trinity getting ready to press the button to terminate thet machines, the machines come into attack Neo, Trinity presses the button, and there's a flash, and Neo wakes up in the same scene as the first movie with the computer screen flashing and it appears that the whole movie has gone back around in one complete loop and then the credits start rolling..." That would be my type of ending...