The best of the Matrix movies

Rating: 9/10 (27 January 2004)

Say what you want about the third film, I came in with a rock-bottom low expectation due to overwhelmingly negative word of mouth and reviews. Like the second movie, I waited three months before going to see the over-hyped film with the low expectation in mind. I emerged stunned, amazed and energized. Five years ago I panned the first film because it was basically a rip-off of the Mamoru Oshii masterpiece Ghost in the Shell with the dash of Biblical allegories and pseudo-babble philosophy 101. I still hold that opinion.
What the Wachowski brothers have achieved is wholly unprecedented to the point of astonishment, even rivaling Peter Jackson's adaptation of Return of the King. The third Matrix film concludes in the most unexpected way in the direction it took from the first film to the middle to the final. This film is meant to conclude in the most obvious (or subtle) way that defies the conventional expectation of virtually every Matrix fan and average moviegoer.
The Matrix Revolutions may be about the ultimate man versus machine showdown, which is probably the reason why Matrix fans went in to see it in the hope that action and storyline remain identical to the first film and rectify the loose ends in the second film, but it's well-laid out to the stunning twists and the very ending that leaves the questions unanswered for the audiences to interpret for themselves. I know Wachowski Brothers are no Kubrick, but they paid homage to intellectual criticism posed to the audiences. The majority of the audiences chose to reject it while I embrace the Wachowski brothers' vision.
In summary, the majority of the Matrix fanbase and average moviegoing public (in any part of the world) are ignorant and oblivious idiots for refusing to yield to open-minded interpretation in the art form of cinema and chose the easy route of denigrating the film and its filmmakers without backing up their arguments in the coherent logic of what the Matrix is truly about. In retrospect, the first two Matrix films are part of the Philip K. Dick fictional universe leading to the inevitable albeit intellectually and psychologically profound treatise on human nature and artificial intelligence technology in the third film.
Larry and Andy - if you read this comment, forgive me for not being favorable to your first film, but you did an amazing job. Don't let them get you down. I pray Ghost in the Shell: Innocence will be a mindbending experience similar to A.I. and The Matrix Revolutions.

**** out of four stars