The Matrix Revolutions

Rating: 5/10 (23 June 2005)

The third and (hopefully) final chapter of The Matrix Trilogy is just as overloaded and plodding as the previous, from Razzie nominated director brothers Andy and Larry Wachowski. If you remember the last one, Neo (Keanu Reeves) saved Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss), and doing so has ended up stranded in a train station between the two worlds, and only Trinity can get him out. Anyway, the war against the machines is still raging on, and Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne), Niobe (Jada Pinkett Smith) and Link (Lost's Harold Perrineau) are travelling through the systems to drop the big bomb to hopefully kill enough of the machines, or end the war. Neo and Trinity meanwhile are heading to machine central so Neo can try and make peace, oh, by the way, he is blinded (but still able to see), and Trinity dies in his arms after a crash. The concluding scenes are Neo's final battle with Agent Smith (Hugo Weaving), while all his clones just watch, and it turns out that he just needed to let Smith take his body over, and then they all blow up. What!? Also starring Mary Alice as The Oracle (replacing Gloria Foster who died from diabetes), Monica Bellucci as Persephone, Collin Chou as Seraph, Anthony Wong as Ghost and Licence to Kill's Anthony Zerbe as Councillor Hamann. Just like the previous film the performances are not as believable as the first film, there are too many things to be focusing on both in the story and on screen, sure the special effects can't be faulted, but do they really need that many? Imagine how it cost them to make. Worth watching!