It's all the same

Rating: 5/10 (6 November 2003)

After I had seen the second part of Matrix (Matrix Reloaded) I wondered why the script originally was designed for three parts - The first Matrix told its own tale, it was a nice, exciting movie with lots of good ideas and characters that fit into the film. But the sequel seemed to be attached to the first part and I didn't have the impression that Matrix was originally intended for three episodes.
In Matrix Reloaded you get all the things you already got in the original one - there is Agent Smith, not one but hundreds, there are Morpeus, Trinity, Neo, the oracle, the sentinels. But there is Zion, yeahh, one new invention.
After the poor second part I hoped that Matrix Revolutions would astonish us all, but I was wrong. Even the third part only seems to be attached to the first one. There are again all the same leading characters and on the other hand there are also plenty of new characters who just don't fit in. We have some Love Stories which are simply senseless and boring. There is agent Smith again, this time not hundreds but even thousands of him - what a brilliant idea.
The fights are also the same, you won't guess who is fighting whom. The sentinels, the machine city and the fields of humans which were already introduced at the beginning of the trilogy are also in the third part - come on Wachowsky brothers I want new creatures, new exciting shots, new ideas and new pictures. And by the way, the end is as predictable as it seems to be.
For me, it seems, that Matrix Reloaded and Matrix Revolutions are just poor copies of the first, original one and I just can't believe that the script was designed for three parts, because the ideas, incursions and vagaries are only enough for one movie.