Disappointing

Rating: 9/10 (5 November 2003)

First off, I am a hige fan of The Matrix and Reloaded. I felt that Reloaded lived up to The Matrix considering it is a sequal. I love these two movies mostly for the philosophical views and story line but also for the unique fighting scenes. I have seen the first Matrix many many times and always leave with something new even now when i see it. Same for Reloaded, although Reloaded is not a complex, there still are sooo many levels to the story to explore.
Now, for Revolutions...I just came back from the movie, and i am extremely sad to say I am disappointed. The first 30 or so minutes were amazing, they lived up to the the other two films. After that, the movie started to go down hill. All the characters that we love are hardly in the movie. Morph, Trin, Neo and in this movie for no more than 20 minutes. It seems like they put The Merovingian and The Architect in for *beep* and giggles. These two were in it for a whole 30 seconds. No agents, no new interesting characters, nothing.
Fight scenes...the movie is pretty much made up of 2 fight scenes which take up 1 and a half hours. I did not find anything unique in these long long scenes and i hardly saw anything of what the matrix is known for, Vis-a-Vis amazing kung foo and wire work. It was more like Smith and Neo punching for 5 seconds then taking a break then going to figh again. With Zion and the squidies, it was visually well done but was nothing new.
The Plot...I came out of the movie not having to think... Unlike the other two films, this movie lays it out for you in full view so there isnt any thinking involved. I feel they chose the most obvious way to explain and end the story.
One other problem... In the first two films, everything that happened was in some way explained in that same movie. It wasnt explained directly but that is what made these movies so good. In Revolutions, either things are explained completely or, more likely, they are not explained at all...How did Neo see? Why was it Orange? things like that.
Over all, I have no idea what I would rate this movie...I am going to see it once more hoping that I will see something I didn't the first time. As for now, I consider the story of The Matrix a two part movie, not a trilogy...WHAT WERE THE BROTHERS THINKING??