Movie Details
| Title: | The Matrix Revolutions | |
| Director: | Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski | |
| Year: | 2003 | |
| Genre: | Science Fiction | |
| Times Seen: | 1 | |
| Last Seen: | 12.27.21 |
Other Movies Seen By This Director (2)
- The Matrix
- The Matrix Reloaded
| Date Viewed | Venue | Note |
| 12.27.21 | Internet | This Screening is part of event: DVRfest 2021 And now it's over. I think it's not so much that this movie is bad - in the time since, we've seen some legit BAD endings to things, like the last Hobbit movie and Game of Thrones - but more that this doesn't feel much like The Matrix to me. For one, it's barely in the matrix at all. There's the fetish wear club scene and a few scenes with the new Oracle (due to the original actress passing away I believe) but most of this movie is in the real life and leads toward a massive CGI battle between mechs out of nowhere and swarms of sentinels kinda Minas Tirith style. The problem is this becomes like a war movie with all the sigh-inducing war movie tropes like the recruit kid saving the day, lines of dialogue like "I made a promise!", "You can do it", and "Neo, I believe!" Gone is any trippy mind-fuck stuff, replaced by typical CGI spectacle that is now tired and commonplace in every Marvel movie. I will say that for some reason the CGI looks a little better here than in Reloaded, but that may be just because they're doing sentinels and other machines instead of humans. The Neo vs. Smith stuff still has that uncanny valley coupled with the scale being so big that it becomes less interesting. On one hand, I guess Neo has finally figured out how to be indestructible, but he's also still punching dudes. Now, My memory of the final scene between the Architect and Oracle is subtly different. I doubt they changed it so it must be my mind playing tricks, but I could've sworn they more explicitly acknowledged that everything would be reset, there would be a new One, and the cycle would start again, but this go around things are a little happier or something. Instead, I now understand their conversation to mean that zion still exists and the matrix kinda soft-reboots but the peace that Neo made a deal for (somehow the result of machinations by Oracle? like she set up that Agent Smith would start replicating?) would hold and anyone who wanted to yeet out of the matrix could do so without being hunted down. My big issue with that is that the ending as i previously understood it was that zion itself and the 'real world' was also a simulation, and that's what the Architect was talking about at the end of Reloaded. If it's not, it REALLY doesn't explain how Agent Smith could possess someone or how Neo could see without his eyes (or affect sentinels). The story kinda only works that way... otherwise we're talking about supernatural elements otherwise not present anywhere else. If my understanding is correct, it's not as explicitly explained as I thought it was. But mostly I think by the time people got to the end they were done caring one way or the other. And I felt the same way. This movie is much more of a slog than the last. I was pretty detached by most of the zion fight. and like there wasn't much left in the ideas barrel so it was all typical bombast and spectacle like the third Pirates movie (complete with a limbo scene at the beginning). If the second one was a 7, I'd put this at a 6, maybe 5.5. Not egregiously terrible and maybe the sequels' reputation is a little overly harsh, but they do turn a remarkable first movie into a somewhat more mundane trilogy. Or should I say Quadrilogy? After all this, I'm finally primed and ready to check out the new one. Unfortunately it's like 3AM and I'm guaranteed to fall asleep before the end, but whatever I miss tonight I'll finish up in the morning. Let's do it!!! |
