The Matrix Revolutions Reviews

'The Matrix' is a genre and film milestone, while it is not one of my all-time favourite films it is still a great, impeccably made and awe-inspiring film and ground-breaking in its visuals and sound that broke boundaries in a way rarely if ever done before.

In 2003, 'The Matrix' boasted two sequels, 'The Matrix Reloaded' and 'The Matrix Revolutions', generally considered critically and to audience not a patch in quality (though more mixed reviews than negatively received). To me, both are vastly inferior and have major problems. At the same time, neither are travesties, there are notable good points.

Hard to say which is the better of the two sequels, they both have similar strengths but also similar flaws with a couple of things done better or worse in the other. Generally it is a shame that after such a great first instalment that 'The Matrix Revolutions' feels largely unsatisfying.

Starting with 'The Matrix Revolutions' good things, the film while not as imaginative as the previous film or as ground-breaking as the original still looks great. The production design is still audacious, the special effects dazzling and uber-cool, very slick editing and cinematography that's both clever and imaginative. There is an epic eeriness to the music score.

While not as astonishing as previously and there is a slight overload of them (with a couple overlong), the action scenes are still very impressive and the awe factor is still there. They benefit from looking great, breathless stunts, a great sense of paranoia, energy and tension. The final battle between Neo and Smith have garnered a mixed reaction, to me it was thrilling stuff and spectacular in mood even if ending on an anti-climactic note.

Lead performances are fine. Keanu Reeves and Carrie Anne Moss are cool, Hugo Weaving is deliciously wicked and Laurence Fishburne is imposing and charismatic and doesn't take it too seriously this time even with less to do.

On the other hand, 'The Matrix Revolutions' is particularly crippled by its pacing and dialogue. The pacing is even more problematic here than in 'Reloaded' with the first half especially being so inert the slower and talkier parts feel stillborn.

Dialogue was not a strong suit in 'Reloaded' but it's amplified here, its endlessly and annoyingly cryptic conversations, over-wordiness, over-complicated long sentences and wallowing self-importance add to its increasingly cheesy and stilted feel.

'The Matrix Revolutions' story often doesn't draw one in enough, with a very dull first half that makes one tempted to bail. Although the second half fares better, the sense of wonder is nowhere near as strong and it's masked by too many characters, situations and scenes that are overlong and extraneous so, along with an over-seriousness, it feels too bloated and heavy.

While the leads are good enough, the rest of the acting suffers from sketchy characterisation and poor writing. The ending is abrupt and confused, leaving one with too many unanswered questions which a final film in a trilogy should not do.

Overall, not a travesty but less than great. 5/10 Bethany Cox

Personajes cero-dimensionales luchando contra malos cero-dimensionales, todos con cero motivaciones y cero interés en un mundo con cero construcción.
¿Pero saben qué? si bien esta película tiene muchos discursos pretenciosos y poca sutileza al tratar sus supuestos temas, al menos Matrix revolutions es un poquito más honesta que Reloaded y tiene más acción entretenida, siendo por lo menos una buena película palomitera. Aun así, sí, está demasiado vacía y su estilo no es tan bueno como para justificar la cero sustancia de la película.
Igualmente, por lo menos las disertaciones filosóficas del filme están bien estudiadas y no son propaganda ideológica a la Sense8.
Mala película, pero al menos es algo entretenida y no es un somnífero como Reloaded. Aunque sí, también es bastante incoherente.

If 'The Matrix Reloaded' turned out to be a big critical failure, it was actually nothing compared to how poorly this last installment was received. Indeed, pretty much everything that went wrong the second time around went here even worse. At this point, the whole story, which in my opinion didn't already work very well in the first movie, became even more stupid and ridiculous. Still, since I always thought that 'The Matrix' is one of the most overrated movies ever made, I can't say I was expecting much and, therefore, I took it for what actually was, a rather silly SF feature with some awesome visuals. Many fans believed that they should have left the first movie alone but, personally, I'm actually glad they made those sequels since they displayed that this whole tale, from the very start, didn't work very well. The biggest mistake they made was, after telling us that our world was fake, was to give us a 'real' world which was visually psychologically and spiritually even more underwhelming than the matrix. From that point, the whole thing was pretty much ruined for me. At least, it was pretty amazing to see Monica Bellucci completely stealing the show in her stunning red dress even though she only had one scene and barely any dialogues. To conclude, sure, it was really weak but I still think it is worth a look, especially if you think that 'The Matrix' is the greatest movie in the world.

this movie has plenty of action storyline and revolutional technology and awesome fight scenes and that is why i recommend this movie as a 10/10 watch

They should've just ended it with the Matrix. Sure, there was a lot of unaswered questions at the end of the first Matrix, but thats ok. that's what makes an awesome film. it leaves your IMAGINATION to fill in and try to finish the story, or you can just leave it be as a 'hope for future' now that Neo found his power. But to make two more films that try to explain what happens afterwards just make it all into a mess. Reloaded and Revolutions just distract the audience with absolutely useless new characters, ridiculous fighting sequences, idiotic one-liners like "Neo, I Believe!", and introduce two new plot holes everytime they try to explain a plot hole from the first Matrix.

To all the Matrix sequel fans, imagine these movies WTIHOUT the first one. By themselves, they would be in the bottom 100 at IMDB. The sequels have no structure, no smart dialog, overly complex plot, and dull characters. They are just hollywood cash cows to a film that never needed a sequel in the frist place.