a big empty feeling where your expectations once were

Rating: Null/10 (4 November 2003)

After all this time, all the hype, all the talk of `the future of movie making', anything short of the original film's impact was going to be a disappointment and Revolutions, more so than Reloaded, comes up shorter than Frodo Baggins. Visually innovative effects have fallen by the wayside, replaced instead with yet more overblown, in your face cinematic fireworks as the audience struggles to find any sense in the plot or any empathy with the characters. Neo and Trinity's romance is about as convincing as Charles and Di's, while the talents of Monica Bellucci are once again criminally wasted as the story fails to tie up loose ends, or indeed satisfy in any way. It's still a spectacle in places, particularly some of the action inside of Zion, and if you like your movies flashy, loud and devoid of logic, you'll be ok. It's just a shame that after the waiting and the obvious effort put in, you're left with a big empty feeling where your expectations once were.