What a waste of time and hope...

Rating: 1/10 (8 November 2003)

After "reloaded", there might have been billions of possible thematic construction to continue this story or, to say it better: to come to a reasonable, half-logical end of this dystopic saga. But the Wachowski performed well in choosing the most trashy, completely clueless finishing you could imagine.
Why is the war over now, just because Neo did what none of the special files and certain programs in the machine's matrix-universe was able to - to eliminate the run-outta- control-program Mr.Smith, a kind of matrix super-worm??? In the first two movies, the main plot was the rebellion of mankind against the machines, not vice-versa, forgotten?
What about the promising thought at the end of "reloaded", that maybe all the setting of the underground world and the machine-ruled earth surface were kind of another matrix themselves, including Zion and the characters of Morpheus and even Trinity? Why didn't they develop the continuing based on this idea? This would have become much more interesting, I bet.
The worst thing about this movie are the pathetic, but completely dumb dialogues all the time. Come on - smalltalk about emotions of cakes, or laconic statements about hope and love in the face of one's world peril are not just uncredible; they are just nonsense.
There is reasonable danger that The Matrix will come down to a second "Highlander": A great main movie followed by a bunch of worse and worse sequels, till even the bravest fans will turn away.
2/10