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The Matrix Revolutions (Widescreen Edition) Customer Reviews (58 - 60 of 73 Reviews)

This movie sucks so hard, it makes Dude Where Is My Car seem like Lord Of The Rings!!!!!

It has a stupid scenario, one that you have,to more or less, get from the start or else you are dead meat and you don't even know it, it's a really bad idea if you wanna just see something and relax, Reeves playing Neo as if he is a robot, and by the first 20 minutes you wish you had rented Star Wars or Lord Of The Rings and not bought this crap, and above all, everything seems to be so important and all keep thinking through the movie is "What the f**k are they doing there?"

The bad news is that they are thinking about a second trilogy (WHY??? WHY????)

The good news is that compared to this all other movies are masterpieces!!
Well done people, next time you should aim in making a movie that's better than Scooby Doo!!!!

Not terrible. But a failure nonetheless. (spoilers)
Its hard to formulate the words to describe the many ways this movie was a letdown. First and foremost the film wasted a great deal of the viewers time with the first thirty minutes as the main character is literally stuck in a sort of purgatory. And during that thirty minutes we are there with him, sitting through the bizarre and pointless shootouts that open the movie; (which in no way are as good as any of the action scenes from the previous films) indeed we to are sitting in purgatory with Neo just waiting for the movie to start already.
From that point on the film kicks into gear and rapidly becomes an endless series of clichés, until it hits the point where Neo and Trinity reenact the death scene from Reloaded and one becomes convinced that the writers had no clue how get rid of Moss's character and thus recycled from the earlier film. It doesn't help that there isn't much soul to the movie. Most of the characters are devoid of background, excepting the ones I couldn't care less about. And the most interesting characters from previous films are shown so briefly that their roles are practically cameos (Merrovingian, Persephone, the Oracle, Agent Smith, are all pushed aside for most of the film)
The whole movie ends up suffering from the disease only usually seen in disaster films and ensemble romantic comedies: Toomanycharatersitis. Thus, the film and its busload of characters whimpers off into the sunset without even resolving all that much. Instead of machines getting defeated, a cease fire is arranged. Instead of a happy ending, we are given a bizarre sermon on tolerance and compulsive selflessness. I liked it better when it was called Final Fantasy: The Spirits Whithin. No, wait, I didn't like that either.

This isn't a horrible movie. Its completely mediocre. But, if you're looking for a suitable climax to the trilogy, look elsewhere.

Part 3: It was Inevitable...
Neither Part-2 or Part-3 matched the brilliance of the original "Matrix". It was inevitable - the Wachowski brothers simply couldn't do it. With that said, "Revolutions" was better than "Reloaded"... but that's not saying much. It was better as a movie overall, but it didn't have a truly memorable action scene that left you sitting on the edge of your seat (i.e. the freeway chase scene in "Reloaded", or the top of building helicopter crash scene in the original "Matrix"). There were times in "Revolutions" where Neo just disappeared - at one time it was for over 30 minutes. Trinity disappeared numerous times and I often wondered where these main characters had gone. Too much time was spent with characters in Zion that I didn't care about (like Link & Zee... what did they bring to the movie?). "Revolutions" needed more Neo, more Morpheus, more Trinity, and more Agent Smith. Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne. Carrie-Anne Moss, and Hugo Weaving are all wonderful actors... and they simply were not on the screen enough. The computer-generated special effects were great, but the story-line, action, and dialogue (monotone and so very emotionless) was simply sub-par. The final battle scene between Neo and Agent Smith flying around in the rain between tall buildings was down-right comical. I loved Trinity in the first "Matrix", but that lessened in Part-2 and in I found myself in Part-3 thinking her death scene just dragged on way too long. The entire ending to the movie was pure cheese. The success of the great trilogies like "Lord Of The Rings", "Indiana Jones" and the original "Star Wars" is so hard to come by these days in Hollywood. The original "Matrix" will forever be the best of the series (should they have stopped at this one?). Replay value = Next to none.