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most polished piece of crap ever
I swear, the Wachowski bros. have a one dollar bet (like the movie trading places) with George Lucas (the new Star Wars Trilogy) and Square (Final Fantasy Movie) on who can spend the most money on a film that has a god awful plot (and ruin their credibility).
The Matrix was fresh, smart, exicting, paid attention to little details that made things interesting and/or fun, and had a great story.
The sequels had numerous scenes that could've been reduced or cut entirely to the point that they could have made just one sequel and be done with it.
Revolutions had an ok story in general, but the presentation was very flawed. Here is a laundry list of the offenses:
- You hardly see Neo, Trinity, or Morpheous and when you do see them they really don't do much.
- the film focuses on way too many minor characters that you really don't care for.
- in the first movie you didn't see shades on everyone as much and you saw more emotion, in the sequels everyone acts like robots because you can't ever see their eyes when they are in the Matrix.
- You see the machines flying around for way too long (especially during the zion fight). The first Matrix showed enough of the real world and the machines to scare the hell out of you and then moved on. Now they do needless CG because they can.
- The whole opening part where Neo is stuck between worlds should have been heavily cut. There could have been a better way to explain that Neo can interact with Machines in the real world and that programs also want freedom.
- the final fight was way too cartoony, the first film's fight between Neo and Smith was cool, in this one it is a joke.
- The ending was mostly useless, Neo and Trinity die for a temporary cease fire so the Wachowski bros. can pump out another game "The Matrix Online"
- speaking of games: am i really supposed to play a buggy and awful game (Enter the Matrix) just to see cut footage from the sequels?
If the directors would've focused more on a good story and using CG to assist the storytelling process (like the first film) the series would've been awesome. Now I doubt I will ever want to see anything that the Wachowski bros. are ever involved with in the future.
So get "The Matix" and "The Animatrix" and stop there. If you must buy more sci-fi movies then get Solaris, Blade Runner, or 2001 - A Space Odyssey.

This trilogy was a downward spiral.
Definitely the worst matrix movie. It was a disappointing and stupid ending. It's as if the director(s) had just said "oh, bugger this," and neglected the salvagable story. I bet I could have written something better than this. There was definitely lots of balls-to-the-wall action in Zion(hence the 2-star rating), but the Neo/Smith battle was kind of cheesy. Get the Return of the King instead.

What do newspaper reviewers know?
Let me start off by saying that I'm a huge Matrix head (I saw the second movie on Wednesday at 10 PM and the third on Wednesday at 7 PM). That said, my reviewed might be a bit skewed, but several other obsessive Matrix types gave this movie poor reviews.
I have few gripes about this film. First, the big action sequence is completely CGI. It's darn good CGI, but one of the joys of the first film was the knowledge that everything happening was real. Second, Neo and Trinity get lost in the rest of the plotline. After about 30 minutes of the big action sequence, I started to wonder what had happened to Neo and Trinity.
Now, it's time for my rant about the good aspects of the film. When I walked into the film, I had read the reviews already and was preparing my spiel for when I walked out of the theater. "The Wachowski Brothers have really lost their reputations as good filmmakers," I was writing down in my head. However, about halfway through the film I decided, "This is actually really good!" The Wachowski Brothers added just the right amout of humor to show that the movie isn't taking itself too seriously, especially involving the Kid. The Kid is that guy who's obsessed with Neo because Neo saved him. If you're all confused, there's a short in the Animatrix about him. The Animatrix is probably worth renting just to see the killer CGI in Final Flight of the Osiris, but don't buy it. Wow, I've really gotten off-track. The plot actually provides good closure to the trilogy--don't let anyone tell you otherwise. The plot also doesn't get lost in the philosophical dilologue like in the second film (for the record, though, I prefer the second film over the first). The acting isn't too bad, either. I know that Keanu Reeves is criticized for his wooden acting, but that type of acting actually fits the character quite well. Hugo Weaving and the guy who play Bane also make up for the actors in the key roles. We all know Hugo Weaving, but we don't know Bane well, yet. Bane, if you weren't paying attention during the second movie (or if you haven't watched it four times, like I have), was taken over by Agent Smith. Anyway, the guy who plays Bane absolutely NAILS the Agent Smith inflections.
I think that I'm going to close with what my friend said after reading the reviews for this movie. "They say that the plot's bad, but it's the same plot. And they complain about the acting, but it's the same actors."

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