the worst illusion of all

Rating: 1/10 (11 November 2003)

Imagine yourself witnessing a magician perform the same trick over and over again, while an orchestra blares in the background. During this performance someone sneaks behind you and steals your wallet. That is the Matrix Revolutions experience in it's purest form. Revolutions main fault is that it in no way provides a conclusion, instead it employs smoke and mirror distractions by tossing overlong action sequences that have zero humanity. The entire film is merely a string of effects loosely tied together with a paper thin outline of a story. The original matrix provided many themes to explore but none of the interesting ideas get explored here. Instead of a struggle of ones inner self what this movie gives us is a bland us vs. Them bland action flick everyone seen a million times over. The story has been simplified to Neo vs. Smith instead of humanity vs. the matrix. It's what the matrix represented that made a compelling story not a dull "look what we can do!" mech warrior battle or the land thousand agent smiths. All of the characters are stage props for a golly giz wiz loud obnoxious effects demo. Finally the ending is quite posibly the greatest con I have ever witnessed in any medium. Even Matrix erotic fan fiction is better imagined than anything in this "film".