Everything that has a beginning has an end...

Rating: 7/10 (11 November 2005)

The Matrix Revolutions is the mildly disappointing finale to the excellent Matrix trilogy. The film is about Neo seeking to fulfill his task as the One and the citizens of Zion (the secret human city in the Real World) defending their home against an onslaught of Sentinals.
The film's opening is extremely engaging and action-packed. Morpheus, Link, and Trinity have discovered that Neo is somehow jacked into the Matrix, despite the fact that he is not connected via the head-plug. Morpheus and Trinity enter the Matrix to find Neo and rescue him from wherever he is. They fight through a club to speak with the Merovingian, who, according to the Oracle, knows where Neo is. They persuade him to tell them where Neo is, and they save him.
Following this opening sequence, the film is, unlike the other Matrix films, mostly a war film, since the majority of the film documents the battle between Zion and the Sentinals. The battle gets repetitive, but is fairly fun to watch, especially near the end.
The film's finale falls short of expectations, in my opinion. I won't spoil it for you... so suffice it to say it's like eating a 10-layer Tootsie Pop, each layer better than the last, until you finally get to the delicious chocolatey center, only to discover it's not there. To fully understand the film's ending, you need to re-view it at least once... I had to re-view it twice before I fully understood exactly what had happened.
The film has great acting and a great plot, but the visual effects seem somehow cheesier than Reloaded's effects (I think WB may have pulled some of Revolution's funding after it considered Reloaded a letdown). Also, a certain emotional scene towards the end of the film involving Neo and Trinity goes on FOREVER, never ceasing to pester you with its badly scripted dialouge (the only scene with bad dialouge). Otherwise, the film is great.
So, in summary, Revolutions is a good film that, with a few tweaks, could have been a great film. Definitely worth a rental, and if you've already seen Reloaded, you should see Revolutions to find out what happens next.
7/10 from zero-hour-ii