Corporate Line: At the stunning conclusion of The Matrix Reloaded, Neo (KEANU REEVES) took another step forward in the quest for truth that began with his journey into the real world at the outset of The Matrix – but that transformation has left him drained of his power, adrift in a no man’s land between the Matrix and the Machine World. While Trinity (CARRIE-ANNE MOSS) holds vigil over Neo’s comatose body, Morpheus (LAURENCE FISHBURNE) grapples with the revelation that the One in which he has invested a life’s worth of faith is merely another system of control invented by the architects of the Matrix.
In The Matrix Revolutions, the final explosive chapter in the Matrix trilogy, the epic war between man and machine reaches a thundering crescendo: the Zion military, aided by courageous civilian volunteers like Zee (NONA GAYE) and the Kid (CLAYTON WATSON), desperately battles to hold back the Sentinel invasion as the Machine army bores into their stronghold. Facing total annihilation, the citizens of the last bastion of humanity fight not only for their own lives, but for the future of mankind itself.
The Good: This revolution comes with a greater depth than Reloaded. Reloaded was bloated filler whereas Revolutions has some depth and a little more to keep you interested. It doesn’t have anything like the amazing highway scene Reloaded offered, come to think of it there aren’t any scenes besides the ending that really stick out. You can take that as you wish.
The graphics come with a mixed bag, but well knock out the good here. The Star Wars like world is astonishing. There is a feast for the eyes here. Once again you can’t help but get caught up in the fiction worlds that were created; the robots, the worlds; everything that you see that you can’t explain comes with great joy. But as with all good there needs to be a bad right?
The Bad: Remember how the Godfather 3 was the one we kind of wished weren’t made because it tarnished the previous; however we were glad just to get a chance to see Pacino and crew one last time? That is what Revolutions feels like. The film isn’t great however it might be our last chance to see Neo and Morpheus and Trinity saving the world. Aside from that and you surely will be calling this the worst of the bunch.
The design has far more of a feast than it does a famine, however there is a lot of fighting and it seems to get more and easier to spot the fake.
Frankly: I wasn’t sure the existence of mankind would come to martial arts, in a way it does and in another it doesn’t. That’s all beside the point. The door is left open for another Matrix film and let’s hopes the Wachowski brothers take more time for the fourth installment so that they can finally make a sequel that might be equal to the original – if that is possible.
+ Charlie Craine
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