If Sentinals are that ineffective, I'll use Daleks...

Rating: 4/10 (8 May 2005)

I just now saw Revolutions--May of 2005. I was in no hurry after seeing Reloaded.
Of course, we all should have known by the very titles that the movies were going to be what they were--we held out, though, thinking "Maybe this is just the advertising side, the depth will be there." Matrix Squared and Cubed would have sent a different message. Or, my favorite names would have been The Determinant and The Jacobian.
One IMDb reviewer's idea of an alien super-ruse was great. I was thinking more visually, though...I kept wondering why in the rainy dual with Neo & Smith, Inc., we got Rain Drop Time rather than Lightning Time. How cool would it have been if when Smith pulled out some supersonic Kung Fu, Neo had countered by going into Lightning Time. We could have had tunnelized redshifting, maybe even some backward causality rather than two bullies seeing just how deep in the mud they could push one another.
And what about the Great Buddha Oz at the end made out of Sentinals? What machine logic to that? And hmmm...Okay, (says the machine) since you say I need you, I'll bind myself to a promise not to do the one thing I seem to have been trying to do for a century--and keep the promise.
And just why is a human culture that can build The Forbidden Planet in less than a century incapable of creating smart weapons to seek and destroy swarming Sentinals? Oh, the big advance in RPGs, I see, is that the launchers are double-barreled. And while the security team runs the place on holographic imaging screens, the shells are made by mixing gun powder with a mortar and pestle. And is there a reason that there wouldn't be EMF impulse weapons in Zion apart from the ships? Anyone think of trying to direct that blue bubble and create a usable device? And as a commander, do you typically leave a suspected psychotic trying to destroy humanity unguarded? And when your only resource is down to human lives, stop to debate whether a 16-year-old should be on the battlefield? And where are the women among the mega-botic gun platform operators? Did I just miss them, or is Zion traditionalist after all?
And why was it that the Smith-Zombie traitor cut himself, again? Why was it that the fire-seeing Neo couldn't save Trinity this time? Why didn't Smith #1 let his millions help him out when things looked bad in the rain storm? Why did the Sentinals in the launch bay fly around in circles together rather than doing the one thing they were there to do--destroy? If that's how a Sentinal works, I'll use Daleks when I take over the world--powered by Linux, of course.
Let's face it, the business built around the Matrix was not cinema, it was video game. And sadly, even for a video game market, high-schoolers would have exercised much more imagination.