Review of The Matrix Revolutions (2003) by Alexander C — 07 Dec 2012

Agent Smith: Mr. Anderson. Welcome back, we missed you.

[Agent Smith pauses and looks around at the multitude of clones he has created].

Agent Smith: Like what I've done with the place?

Neo: It ends tonight.

Agent Smith: I know it does, I've seen it. That's why the rest of me is just going to enjoy the show because we already know that I'm the one that beats you.

Agent Smith: Why, Mr. Anderson? Why do you do it? Why get up? Why keep fighting? Do you believe you're fighting for something? For more that your survival? Can you tell me what it is? Do you even know? Is it freedom? Or truth? Perhaps peace? Yes? No? Could it be for love? Illusions, Mr. Anderson. Vagaries of perception. The temporary constructs of a feeble human intellect trying desperately to justify an existence that is without meaning or purpose. And all of them as artificial as the Matrix itself, although only a human mind could invent something as insipid as love. You must be able to see it, Mr. Anderson. You must know it by now. You can't win. It's pointless to keep fighting. Why, Mr. Anderson? Why? Why do you persist?

Neo: Because I choose to.

The human city of Zion defends itself against the massive invasion of the machines/Sentinels as Neo fights to end the war while also opposing the rogue Agent Smith.

The third film in the trilogy, the magic three. Yet of the three films, 'Revolutions' is definitely the least imaginative and the least interesting. It's best scenes that define it are two note worthy ones and the climactic battle between Neo & Smith will appeal to myself and other action enthusiasts but may leave normal audiences flagging with repetition.

Neo and Trinity seem to disappear for hours upon hours in the duration of the movie, and we're left with Morpheus, Niobe and all the others defending Zion. This leads to a special effects filled noisy as hell sequence that never inspires excitement. It has an epic feel to it, yet it never fulfills its full potential.

Revolutions has not aged particularly well, what was once an average movie is now a plain terrible one. Its well made, but the script and cast seem tired. When watched with the rest of the series the faults are all the more clearer.

After three movies and about six hours of viewing we find out that Neo dies, Trinity dies, Zion will survive in its deplorable state (if at least temporarily), and the Matrix will continue to thrive on human batteries.

I guess the lesson is: Life is not fair. Revolutions is death related.

Reloaded was life.

Matrix was birth.

Just fast forward the middle, watch the beginning and the end fight scene, that's the best segments of the movie.