what was it about this movie?

Rating: 1/10 (31 January 2004)

Was it the hype? Was it that people got so blinded by their love of the first one and (tepid toleration?) of the second one that they said they enjoyed this movie? I mean, Revolutions is up there with Gigli, in the ranks of the worst of 2003. Here we observe the utter disintegration of the trilogy - the characters are now forcefully and unnecessarily dramatic to add to the finality of this episode, the plot consists of primarily one extraneously long battle in which things die, noises are made and things explode (and tears are shed so as to dispel the rumor that special effects have entirely replaced storytelling and character development), and martial arts is almost entirely gone. In reality, there is nothing original about this movie. It spews its usual dosage of philosophical babble (which would be interesting, if not for the fact that it has become more of a fad in this movie rather than a sincerely thoughtful deliberation), it asks yet again "is Neo the One?" (Jesus, does it matter anymore?) and it answers its question with a wavering "I can't make up my mind, but let's blow stuff up while I ruminate" And it was boring. It was almost as if the Wachowski Brothers were attempting to stretch a dying ending into a two hour movie - and trying to spend a lot of money doing it. In any case, to sum up, after seeing this movie I yearned for the original Matrix, and my tepid tolerance of Matrix Reloaded turned to warm acceptance. But maybe that's just an experience in juxtaposition.