The flaws of the previous sequel are more readily apparent here as the focus shifts to the “real” world which is populated largely with uninteresting characters that were poorly developed in the previous film. As before, the film is stronger when it focuses on what is going on in the Matrix and Neo’s own struggle to understand his role and the fallout from his discoveries. It is a shame then that most of the plot centers around a large scale assault on Zion that quickly becomes tiresome as characters who we care little about face off against an overload of CGI machines that really needed cutting down. That the film grinds to a halt in its biggest action sequence says a lot about how badly thought through this part of the film was and without the juxtaposition of scenes within the Matrix that made the “real” world sequences bearable in the last film, it never really recovers from it, even if it does improve slightly as it shifts its focus back to Neo. It doesn’t help that whereas in the last film plots elements from the “real” world were rushed, here it’s the elements related to the development of the Matrix that feel rushed and forgotten about for large parts of the film which make the final sequence difficult to care about. It’s not unwatchable by any means, but as the culmination of a trilogy it can’t help but disappoint.
Bit bored compared to previous two
The ending to a trilogy that needn't be a trilogy at all.
Maybe it's because I saw all three in succession this time but I really grew tired of the whole story. At the end I felt rather exausted in making sense of a story I thought I had figured out at the conclusion of the first part. And again it was CGI overkill. Where is the point, in having tens of thousands objects on the screen, when you can't make out details? It's just one blurry mess. It was always said that it was written as a trilogy but I really think they could have done the whole of the second and third in one 150 min hour movie. And in the end that movie might have been more satisfactory.
The way I see it the Wachowski (then) Brothers had a great idea but got carried away during the process of filmmaking by a more-more-more fanboy attitude.
Ugh. The end of The Matrix trilogy hardly spends any time in the Matrix...this was more like a bad Terminator installment.
Story: 4...it's winning by dying...again
Script: 4
Performances: 4...umm, new Oracle?
Misc.: 4...nothing new here
Influence: 3
Overall: 4
Ultimately it's a letdown to end the trilogy on. Perhaps a lot of that was due to not spending much of its runtime in the vastly more entertaining and bombastic matrix world. Instead focusing more on the "real world" and the war with the machines. It's just not as exciting. That said, I don't really see any other way they could've wrapped this story up. Ultimately we're given exactly what we were promised from the beginning. As such, it's a satisfying conclusion. It's just not as fun as the previous two movies.
Neo has done his job and can leave? ;) Special effects, as usual, at a high level, a bit of a philosophical flair and we have the final.
[HBO Max, 4K] Excessive, spectacular, Revolutions is summed up in Rama-Kandra's phrase: "Love is just a word". A connection that goes beyond feelings, and that provokes the prophesied events. Love is sacrifice, it is selfless, it is generous... "Everything that has a beginning has an end, Neo." Apart from the long war scene, the ending is consistent with the trilogy and finds a way to connect with the beginning.
Nothing new. Another shoot out behind concrete posts. Another techno club but this time with a bondage dress code. Thanks. It used to be cryptic but now it's cryptic for the sake of it, which comes to the usual conclusions of love, destiny, choice, time etc. I'd rather the cheesy hollywood dialogue back to be honest. At least gent Smith even gets an evil villain laugh. These movies were never as deep as people think but the first one was good sci-fi, left open to be as deep as you wanted it. That's why it was great to me. There were a lot of unknowns in the original instead of talking about the unknowns of the unknowns... of the unknowns. The third movie is a mess and unoriginal. Luke loses his hand - I mean Neo is blind!... but he can see! Just use the force matey. Some say even the first Matrix isn't original but it was to most of us not in the anime or whatever loop. Least the second was a decent action ride even if the nonsense was becoming apparent. Not much Neo in this either. We're left with a lot of characters we don't know or care about who don't really have a purpose. Lot's of jittery gun action that puts you in a trance state and a dodgy ship escape that is in no way like the millennium falcon. The end? What were those guys/now gals thinking?
Super weird ending
The whole entire attack on Zion could've been left out honestly. The only thing that matters in this film is Neo and Trinity being ride-or-die, and sacrificing anything and everything for love. They alone carry this one.
[5.8/10] I don’t know if it would be better or worse if The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions had been made as one big movie rather than split up into two related halves. Because the third movie in The Matrix trilogy is effectively one gigantic third act, with little of the character or introspection that made the first two movies more than just a spate of jaw-dropping action.
Revolutions is practically all action. There’s a fight with the Merovingian’s guards. Then Trinity and Neo fight Agent Smith’s meat-space equivalent. Then the warriors of Zion must hold off the sentinels with their giant mechas and bazookas. Then Niobe and Morpheus race against more sentinels in a desperate ploy through a mechanical shaft. Then Neo and Trinity confront a wash of more robots in the machine city. And finally, Neo and Agent Smith have a superpowered skirmish through the skies of a Smith-ified version of the Matrix itself.
There’s very little downtime in any of this. It’s all ups. In the opening portion of the film, Neo gets one metaphor-laden conversation with a fellow traveler and his family. There’s a Return of the Jedi-esque “Why didn’t you tell me about all this important stuff?” conversation between him and The Oracle. Trinity gets to go out telling the person she loves how much he means to her. And Agent Smith gets one big monologue to lay the themes of the film out.
But that’s about it in the way of meaningful character beats. Almost everything else in this two hour film is a constant barrage of cinematic fireworks, punctuated only by the occasional eye roll-worthy action movie one-liner. For better or worse, the pseudo-philosophical lacquer that elevated the prior films is reduced to a few scraps of paint, and the characters spend more time punching each other or firing rocket launchers at swarms of death than, you know, talking to one another. It’s less a movie than an endless array of explosive spectacle.
And the spectacle’s not even particularly good! Not everything about the original Matrix film and its sequel has aged perfectly. But they lack in perfectly photorealistic CGI, they make up for in an incredible sense of art direction, fight choreography, and the heightened realism of the setting. Revolutions, sadly, throws most of that in the garbage.
So much of the climax of this trilogy is an ugly gray CGI morass. The buzzing hive of sentinels, never the most convincing elements of the series’ aesthetic, take center stage here as they invade Zion, chase down Morpheus and company, and confront Neo and Trinity as they approach the machine city. In the last human city, most of the soldiers use large Aliens-style “Armored Personnel Units” that look as much like real humans piloting real machines as a cardboard cutout of a celebrity glued to a fisher price kiddie car. Even the backgrounds feel phony, with Zion cutting the image of a factory level in a video game, and Neo wandering into any number of Windows screensavers in his half of the film.
It’s a shame, because one of the great achievements of The Matrix and its sequel is how they were able to bridge the gap between the real and the fantastical. Morpheus’ comrades did larger than life things, and bent and broke plenty of the physical rules of our world, but they did so while grounded in it, extending the recognizable into the impossible. Ironically, Revolutions spends more time in the real world than the previous Matrix films, and yet severs that tether to reality, giving us location after location and set piece after set piece that play as completely unreal and immersion-breaking. It is, perhaps, not surprising that a science fiction film released between Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith is awash in ugly immersion-breaking CGI, but it’s unfortunate considering how much the Wachowskis were able to achieve in films that came out the very same year.
The lone exception is Neo’s closing fight with an oracle-a-fied Agent Smith. The usual green sheen, a blinding downpour, and a little of the wire fu that helped make the franchise famous give the climactic confrontation the flavor missing from so much of the rest of the flick. It also features the rare iconic moment from Revolutions -- Neo’s slow motion fist rippling into Smith’s face. But even there, the Wachowski’s struggle to avoid making a dust-up between two dudes who can fly around at one another look anything but silly, as they flail at the air and make goofy looking sonic bubbles when they collide. The attempt is clearly to go for something epic, but the results end up as another helping of unconvincing computer-generated folderol.
Somewhere in that heap, Revolutions gets at some solid concluding themes. With the prophecy gone, the fiction of some magical or presaged solutions to all their problems gone, Neo still chooses to fix things. There is an existential bent to the closing exchange between him and Agent Smith. In a world without defined purpose or inherent meaning, Neo chooses his own. His connections, the fact that they are his choices are what give them meaning. The film ends not with a defeat of the machines, but of a fragile peace born of mutual need and understanding. There’s a boldness to that, a valid answer to the search for meaning and truth that began with “Mr. Anderson”’s first forays into these questions in the first film.
But it gets lost in a typhoon of amorphous messianic bullshit. Amid that genuine complexity and search for truth or purpose in the “vagaries” and “constructs” Agent Smith derides, Revolutions doles out some generic “I believe” pablum without any deeper grounding. It’s not enough for Neo to be a prophetic figure who sacrifices himself for the good of humanity. No, he has to be blind yet still able to see and die in a Christ-like pose. Beyond the puzzling mechanics of why he can see machine code in the real world now, the movie simply loses the plot in what it’s trying to say by buffeting it with opaque yet bog-standard imagery that lacks the spiritual transcendence the Wachowskis are aiming for.
Still, I could tolerate more of that unsatisfying approach to the series’ endgame -- this isn’t the Matrix trilogy’s first rodeo when it comes to doublespeak and vagueness, after all -- if it weren’t surrounded by so much tedious, unsightly, and ultimately empty action. As much monologuing and Intro to Philosophy back-and-forths suffused the first two movies in the trilogy, they revealed a story with something deeper in focus. Occasionally, the audience had to fill in the gaps or accept that real people might talk like that, but it gave the series a headiness, and more importantly a connection to its characters, that stood out beyond the superlative set pieces on offer.
The Matrix Revolutions is almost nothing but those set pieces, with a few scattered, insufficient character moments and a last ditch effort at profundity that crumbles into mere throw-it-at-the-wall vagary. The biggest mystery at play here is not whether this tentative peace will last or how Neo’s powers manage to extend outside The Matrix, but rather how the same team that crafted the first two sterling Matrix movies somehow capped things off by producing this digital dud.
This is a straight-up bad movie.
The action sequences are so good, I rate this movie 9 out of 10 only for its good graphics.
The Matrix trilogy lost some of its fire in the last film. The story line felt boring most times and most of the action I felt that was great in the first two films wasn't in the last. I feel like this was a side effect of The Wachowski brothers trying to focus more on the real world and Zion than the Matrix which let's be honest the best action scenes were of that inside the Matrix. In the end Matrix Revolutions turned out to be a disappointing conclusion to the trilogy. Still despite its flaws, Matrix Revolutions shouldn't be skipped if you haven't seen the whole trilogy as it was still somewhat "just a little" bit entertaining to watch.
Where the 2nd Matrix film benefited from leaning into the goofy, video game-style action, in this one that all works to its detriment. A surprisingly boring movie considering how action-packed it is.
The Matrix film series
The Matrix (1999) https://trakt.tv/movies/the-matrix-1999
The Matrix Reloaded (2003) https://trakt.tv/movies/the-matrix-reloaded-2003
The Matrix Revolutions (2003) https://trakt.tv/movies/the-matrix-revolutions-2003
The Matrix Resurrections (2021) https://trakt.tv/movies/the-matrix-resurrections-2021
This was a poor conclusion (as originally intended). Looked pretty, but it was very boring indeed, and with barely an original thought in its entire runtime.
I held off watching these two sequels for 18 years, and now I see I was right to do so.
Still the Matrix. No more, no less. A bunch of ideas with little character to anchor them. Neo and Orpheus are friends because it’s said so. Neo and Trinity are in love because they have to be, despite still having no chemistry. Smith is the best part and in much too little of it. But they saved their effects budget on this one; a lot of the final fight still holds up and looks stunning. On the whole, the Matrix is just a lot of thought, and if it’s your first time being presented with those thoughts, I’m sure it’s groundbreaking. But in an age where both it’s influences and it’s influenced are easier to find than ever, it just doesn’t stand out to me. But maybe Resurrections, as meta as people say it is, will successfully defend the series’ reputation.
Go for the kill-miss-punch-punch-block-block-slap-miss-repeat step 1 and boom you have the movie
Not so great as the first one but better than the second one.
3 Thoughts After Watching ‘The Matrix Revolutions’:
I feel like I can’t say that this film fixed certain aspects of the previous one — because I believed they were filmed back-to-back — but that’s how it felt. It was easier to comprehend, less convoluted. And the CGI wasn’t relied on as heavily. And when it was, it wasn’t as bad as Reloaded.
This still doesn’t hold a candle to the original. I do like how we get a better taste and understanding of Zion. That has always been a huge part of the story. But I wish we took a different road there… one with more beloved characters and stakes/drama/mythology that most of us can actually wrap our head around.
The most consistent, and my favorite, part of this trilogy has been Neo and Trinity. Some may scoff at their love story, but it has always been the heart of this journey. Reeves and Moss have a beautiful chemistry.
I heard horrible things about this film, but it’s not that bad at all. The second half is undeniably epic, even though the whole first part as well as some characters felt completely useless. My biggest complaint is the idea to turn Agent Smith into the main antagonist. It gives us a great final battle, but it’s blatant fanservice for its own sake.
The writing in the 3 movies are pretty good but the multiple 20 minute fight scenes got super repetitive and it looks the same every time, try’s to kill-block-punch-punch-spin in the air-punch someone up into the air- then repeat step 1 30 times for 20 mins
ruined the whole trilogy. do not watch it, unbearable and i am such a huge fan of the matrix. but everything was so wrong i cant but laugh
A rewatch determines that this was, actually, a very satisfying conclusion. This was always were it would end, a standoff between man and machine, between Mr Anderson & Mr Smith.
Woulda been a 5 without the Mechs
great movie if you want to get into world of conspiracy theories it has all aspects of good science fiction movie it gives you that feeling like you are not alone even though you are
good
I think if they did do another Matrix it would have to be as a reboot. A complete new cast and take it into a new direction but within the Matrix timeline.
I loved this trilogy. I really wish they would make another one.
Where I loved the first Matrix for its great mix of special effects and philosophical story, and the second Matrix just for being a very entertaining action movie, I couldn't see any of it in this third of the trilogy.
Mostly this movie is about Agent Smith fighting and robots shooting at robots. Neo himself is lost for most of the time, other characters are either shooting their way back home, or shooting to defend their home. Not much philosophy there. Lots of action though, but not entertaining at all. Main characters were turned into side-characters, so I had nobody to care about. It was clear how the story would end, so no real reason to watch, except for the pretty special effects.
The part of this movie that impressed me most was the very booming voice of the machine mind at the end, which says enough about the rest of the movie.. I was actually bored and on the verge of turning it off. Wouldn't have missed much if I did.
Better than "Reloaded" but nowhere near the first "Matrix" movie.
Extremely flawed, like a film of two halves.
There's the bit that is Matrix. And then there's 45 minutes or so of something so poor it resembles a really cheap Terminator Salvation.
The Matrix bit isn't perfect - in fact he cheapen the whole trilogy having it end the way it does. The action and effects are okay but the plot is an unsatisfactory ending.
The sudden desire to give us a whole heap of Zion is a waste of our time.
Im curious to see the new instalment as it clearly isn't going to be an easy job to resurrect the plot from the point we left.
5/10
Big, big disappointment. It would be much better if there trilogy wasn't a trilogy. The first part was great and sufficient. But the fight in the air this pulp! And Link
As an ending to the trilogy, it’s fine. As a Matrix movie, it’s meh. They spent way to much time with mediocre characters in an uninteresting CGI battle outside the goddamn matrix. Sometimes I wonder what’s wrong with filmmakers.
'The Matrix Revolutions' is widely considered to be a weak conclusion to the 'Matrix' franchise. Many criticized the film for feeling like a drawn-out final battle that didn't add anything new to the story. The film also suffered from being released so closely to its predecessor, 'The Matrix Reloaded,' which received a lukewarm response. While there are some moments of interest in the film, it ultimately fails to live up to the promise of the original 'Matrix' and is best left as a footnote in the franchise's history. A better use of time would be re-watching the groundbreaking and exciting original film.
Se considera que 'The Matrix Revolutions' es una conclusión débil de la franquicia 'Matrix'. Muchos criticaron la película por sentirse como una batalla final prolongada que no agregaba nada nuevo a la historia. La película también sufrió por ser estrenada tan cerca de su predecesora, 'The Matrix Reloaded', que recibió una respuesta poco entusiasta. Si bien hay algunos momentos de interés en la película, finalmente no cumple con la promesa de la 'Matrix' original y es mejor dejarla como una nota al pie de página en la historia de la franquicia. Un mejor uso del tiempo sería volver a ver la innovadora y emocionante película original.
Even Carrie-Anne Moss can't save The Matrix Revolutions. There's so much stupid shit wrong with this one that I won't even try to list them all here, but I will mention two things...An abundance of continuity errors and a severe lack of pacing.
My recommendation is watch the first movie and skip everything else. You'll save four hours you can use on something more fun.
An unsatisfying conclusion to the trilogy, it carries the worst aspects of the movies—mindless/gratuitous action, exposition over exploration, obnoxious stylistic choices, painfully obvious symbolism, etc.—with far less discipline. This movie is just a mess and without any of the genuinely interesting ideas that made the first two worth watching to begin with—and all of that is without taking into account the flatter characters or blander performances. There is the occasional cool setup, but overall, Revolutions commits the worst sin a sequel could make: it makes the audience wonder if there was ever anything of true substance in the first place.
Painful dialogue writing and a weak ending. I get that it's nigh impossible to continue on from The Matrix which is why they just shouldn't have.
Though it fails as a science-fiction film, The Matrix Revolutions is a thrilling, non-stop action film. In this final chapter of the Matrix trilogy Zion defends itself against a massive machine invasion as Neo attempts to reach the Machine City in order to negotiate an end to the war. The actual plot is a bunch of convoluted garbage, but the action sequences are incredibly dynamic and visually stunning. Additionally, the fast-pacing helps to get through all the “Matrix” nonsense and straight to the battles. While the writing is rather poor, The Matrix Revolutions delivers a riveting, action-packed adventure.
I dont watch Matrix Reloaded but this is more better the the first one, the action was amazing, is not boring, is amazing
I know this one gets a lot of hate... this is my fav trilogy... I have seen all the movies a lot of times and this was simply the evolution... of course the first one was an epic movie... but I’m glad the other 2 were not a copy but a part of it all... also good to see the whole trilogy including the si matrix and the enter the matrix material!
Basically just one big fight scene, though that's what the matrix is really good at
Some good action and giant robots is always a plus but this is the worst of the trilogy. That final fight is pretty impressive.
Classic Sci-fi. Great.
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Highly underrated. Similar to the second movie, understanding the low ratings because the mid part of the movie is so drawn-out.