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"Another Matrix Revolutions Opiniones Thread Ye Seconde... (no spoilers)"

If I had to describe the film in one word, that word would be "overlong". It was a good film, raised the bar for the next batch of special effects blockbusters, and the plot had everyone scurrying about on the internet for months. But you can have too much of a good thing. The scale of the battle scenes and tidying-up of the plot made Reloaded almost redundant in it's purpose. In fact, you could quite easily watch the "trilogy" as just two films and still make sense of it.

All the elements of a good film were there - story, action, drama - but it lacked any sort of empathy for the characters, leaving you un-fussed if any of them snuff it (which they do). The problem is that there are only about 5 scenes, but they're stretched out to at least 30 minutes each. The battle for Zion, the Neo/Agent Smith fist fight - they go on for far too long, outside the acceptable limits of audience interest. But as they say repeatedly in the film: "Everything that has a beginning as an end". But it wasn't a very good ending. Everything gets resolved one way or another, but they've left it wide open for more sequels, which is quite disappointing as it ruins the tension and suspense of waiting for the final outcomes of all the various going-ons.

As a special effects and action film it is awesome (dude!). No clunky CGI sequences like in Spider-Man, or Tombraider - they've clearly put loads of money into making the scenes look as though they could exist for real. A good example of a "popcorn movie", although you could probably get through several boxes of popcorn before the scenes are out! The only gripe I have with the action sequences is that they've all been done before. In fact, a huge chunk could have been ripped straight out of Return Of The Jedi, and they even went as far as mimicking certain scenes from the original Matrix film. But the special effects are still impressive. Possibly even better than the Lord Of The Rings movies. Of course, no film will come near Jurassic Park. Ever!

But an acting film it ain't. Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss are guilty of more acting crimes than the entire Baldwin family put together. But it helps get through the hyped-up plot, as they deliver their lines so woodenly, you couldn't fail to get the message. "Why am I here?", "What is that for?", "Who are you?". It's like they learnt their lines off a Speak-and-Spell. Luckily there's not too much speaking to be done by these two. Laurence Fishburne and The Oracle lady get the highest word count, but they don't get a much better than Neo and "Trin".

Overall, it's still a good film. A worthy addition to the series, but only just. It comes second out of the three, but only really because it held the answers posed by the first film. But that's good enough for me. After months of waiting and speculating over how the Wawotsits will end it, I finally know. And it's, well, y'know, ok.

I liked this better than Re-loaded.

It's like Snuggly said, fight scenes meant something because they were actually in danger, rather than "Neo the God" simply smashing away everything in his path.

It was all dis-jointed scenes though and it seemed to lack a certain fluidity, but I wasn't expecting a master-piece.
Not perfect, but as sequels go, Reloaded and Revolutions are pretty good.

Saw it yesterday - Thought it was brilliant. Probably the weakest film out of the three but still bloody enjoyable! As someone said a great way to end the trilogy

.....which is why it sucked. I wanna see crazy kung fu that I can pretend to do when I'm drunk.

The Matrix was hardly in the third film

Nova_Crusader wrote:
> did'nt show you what it was like outside the matrix etc.

Yes it did, it was called Zion...

I thought is was very good. A great end to a fantastic trilogy.

Awwww wook at the wittle baby

I thought this wa the best matrix film i hated the first one in fact i thought the first was s*s**t. The second i still have'nt seen :S but saw this like the fight between the people and the robots and also like the fight ws**th neo and that computer bloke when theres loads of him. That Bloke
just cracks me up "pleased to meet you again Mr.Anderson" lol.

But yep there is a "but" the Ending was Bad very Bad did'nt show you what s**t was like outside the matrix etc.

The end fighting was fantastic...

the rest bored me to tears.

Shame they opened it up for another film.

I think that guy plays a lot of down and out tramps, and he does it so well.