waste of time

Rating: 1/10 (10 November 2003)

Why is there no one we care about in this film? Why are Neo, Trinity and Morpheus hardly in it? Isn't it these characters who we have followed/ loved from the start? Instead we get some unknowns who we have nothing invested in. We just don't care about them, or whether Zion falls or not. The dialogue is laughable.
The third film may have wanted a different look to what we normally expect from The Matrix. But why did they make it look like every other sci fi film of recent years. Instead of pushing things forward, we get a mixture of past favourites like Alien, Star Wars, Terminator and Robocop.
As has already been mentioned in previous posts, the simultaneous worldwide release with hardly any press was designed to get as much money in as possible for a film everyone knew would be poor. I struggled to stay awake for most of it. When the final fight finally got going, I'd been uninterested for too long to get excited about it. Some irrelevant character says at the end that 'it doesn't make sense'. Best line of the film for me.
The one and only good thing about this film is Monica Belluci, and she's in it for about two minutes. They should have stopped with the Matrix and retained their reputations as ground-breaking film makers. I enjoyed the trailer for the Lord of the Rings better.