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The Matrix: Revolutions
(November 2003)

The Matrix trilogy is like meeting a gifted child and then finding out that all the child does is sit in the back of the classroom eating paste and glitter.

The Matrix was a good idea and gave us something to think about, it gave us hope of things to come. Reloaded was so jam packed with special effects and action there was little room for a story and our hopes for greater things was severely deflated. Now, along comes Revolutions. Will it fulfill our hopes of the payoff we've been waiting for? Sadly no. All that Matrix does is finally stick a fork in a trilogy that never should have been.

The Matrix series has been boiled down to never ending pseudo-intellectual religious babble that you might hear in a group of drunk psychology 101 majors and special effects. There are some fun parts to the movie, the attack on Zion was a fun ride. But at the end as the movie title, Revolutions, suggests we find ourselves back at the beginning. Which leads me to wonder why we ever took the trip in the first place.

As a final warning the Matrix Revolutions starts as if we've just come back from a commercial break - no warm ups no re-introductions. Were they expecting us to have watched Matrix Reloaded right before going to the theater to see Revolutions?

Rating: R for sci-fi violence and brief sexual content.