The first Matrix stood alone brilliantly. The second carried on the story intriguingly but left gaps the third needed to fill. Instead, Revolutions raises questions without answering any.
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11/05/03
The Matrix Revolutions (2003)
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Reviews Counted:202
Fresh:75
Rotten:127
Average Rating:5.3/10
Consensus: A disappointing conclusion to the Matrix trilogy as characters and ideas take a back seat to the special effects.
Runtime: 2 hrs 18 mins
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
Synopsis: Everything that has a beginning has an end. 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... [More]
Starring: Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, Laurence Fishburne, Hugo Weaving
Director: Andy Wachowski, Larry Wachowski
Reviews for The Matrix Revolutions
141 - 160 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
The laws of physics don't apply within the Matrix, but the law of diminishing returns does.
11/05/03
Everything that has a beginning has an end, we are told by several characters, and by the movie's tagline itself. But it's hard to imagine that this conclusion is more satisfying than any that fans could conceive in their own minds.
11/05/03
True believers will be reaching for the red pill, but it's still not quite enough to convert the heretics.
11/05/03
So tedious and unoriginal that it's more like The Matrix Repetitions, with one numbing battle sequence after another, all of them looking like outtakes from the last Star Wars.
11/05/03
The end has come for Neo, Trinity, Morpheus and all the other unplugged people fighting machine domination in The Matrix Revolutions. The sad thing is, they go out more with a whimper than a bang.
11/05/03
It brings the saga to a satisfying close.
11/05/03
This come-down of a series capper is so arch and pompous amid its clanks and collisions that you can only snicker at the verbal wind that obscures the din of marauding machinery.
11/05/03
The film is a soggy mess, essentially a loud, wild 100-minute battle movie bookended by an incomprehensible beginning and a laughable ending.
11/05/03
The problem with The Matrix Revolutions comes from writer/director team Larry and Andy Wachowski, whose script sounds as if it were doctored by Ed Wood.
11/05/03
[The fight scenes] come as close to recapturing the 'ooh, ahh' factor of the original.
11/05/03
We’ve been cheated. We’ve been misled. It’s like discovering there’s no Santa Claus and getting socks under the tree in the same year.
11/05/03
“Everything that has a beginning has an end.” Right, or maybe right.
11/05/03
Though visually spectacular, 'The Matrix Revolutions' is a disappointing climax to what had previously been one of the great movie series of recent years.
11/05/03
The Matrix trilogy is so named for a reason: The most compelling aspect of the movies is that way-cool space. Revolutions spends too little time there.
11/05/03
"Revolutions" is so huge in scope and concept that I almost feel like I'm cheating you out of a proper review as I don't think my brain has finished processing it yet.
11/05/03
Revolutions is nothing more than a 'B' movie script with an 'A' movie budget.
11/05/03
Watching the movie is sort of like finishing off a filet mignon dinner with Pop Rocks.
11/05/03
Too bad the Wachowski brothers marry their mind-blowing visuals to some of the worst war movie clichés ever written.
11/05/03
While it's fast-paced eye-candy for techno-geeks, it's also a metaphysical action-thriller with a distinctly spiritual message - stylishly conceived and meticulously executed.
11/05/03
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