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The Matrix Revolutions (2003)

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Average Rating: 5.3/10
Reviews Counted: 208
Fresh: 74 | Rotten: 134

A disappointing conclusion to the Matrix trilogy as characters and ideas take a back seat to the special effects.

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Average Rating: 4.9/10
Critic Reviews: 39
Fresh: 10 | Rotten: 29

A disappointing conclusion to the Matrix trilogy as characters and ideas take a back seat to the special effects.

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Shot back-to-back with The Matrix Reloaded, the third and final installment of Andy Wachowski and Larry Wachowski's sci-fi action saga picks up where the second film left off. Neo (Keanu Reeves) remains unconscious in the real world, caught in a mysterious subway station that lies between the machine world and the Matrix, and Bane (Ian Bliss) is still a conduit for Agent Smith (Hugo Weaving), who continues to grow out of control, threatening to destroy both worlds. Meanwhile, as the sentinels

Apr 6, 2004

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The Wachowski brothers have rendered their chronicles into banality, as if trying to imitate the qualitative tailspin of the Star Wars series.

November 7, 2003 | Comment (1)
Washington Post
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This final installment is both too much of a good thing and too little.

November 7, 2003 Full Review Source: Sacramento Bee | Comment (1)
Sacramento Bee
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There's nothing even resembling a surprise in the third and weakest installment of the trilogy.

November 7, 2003
Arizona Republic
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No less than the rankest demagogue, The Matrix Revolutions insists on the primacy of faith over knowledge. Once it locks and loads, however, the triumphant visuals short-circuit anything resembling abstract thought.

November 5, 2003 Full Review Source: Village Voice
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One of the most original concepts in recent fantasy movie history has devolved into something perfectly ordinary.

November 5, 2003 Full Review Source: Toronto Star
Toronto Star
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As an action movie, it's talky, but it rocks.

November 5, 2003 Full Review Source: Houston Chronicle
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Averages out to be a mildly better film than The Matrix Reloaded, mostly on account of being neither as good nor as bad in its peaks and valleys.

May 31, 2012 Full Review Source: Antagony & Ecstasy
Antagony & Ecstasy

Finale with same heavy violence, weaker script.

December 28, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media

Ah, the Wachowski's were one trick ponies after all.

April 29, 2009 Full Review Source: Cinema Crazed
Cinema Crazed

The Wachowskis did a good job naming The Matrix Revolutions. It continues to go around and around and around. (Blu-ray Edition)

October 24, 2008 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis
Movie Metropolis

Some of this stuff is just cheesy in the same way it's been cheesy in dozens of cheaper, less cultish films.

March 11, 2008 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com
eFilmCritic.com

It's amazing how such a brilliant opening film can devolve into nothing but uninteresting fight scenes and unnecessary visual effects.

August 8, 2006 Full Review Source: Cinema Sight | Comments (4)
Cinema Sight

Not in my memory has a film been filled with such a succession of ejaculatory FX shots that cover any semblance of story in goo.

December 6, 2005 Full Review Source: Film Threat
Film Threat

Zzzzzz.

May 4, 2005 Full Review Source: Lessons of Darkness | Comments (6)
Lessons of Darkness

''Everything that has a beginning has an end,' says the tag line. Not in financial terms it doesn't.'

March 22, 2005 Full Review | Comments (4)
Las Vegas Mercury

Yes, some of the philosophy was clumsily scripted, but I saw and appreciated where the Wachowskis were trying to take the universe.

March 5, 2005 Full Review Source: NYC Film Critic
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Audience Reviews for The Matrix Revolutions

Agent Smith's reach has extended into the real world threatening Neo's attempt to end the war as the machine offensive breaches the gates of Zion. The disappointment felt upon the release of the rather self indulgent and empty Matrix Reloaded caused a real backlash against the Wachowskis, and Revolutions garnered a similarly lukewarm reception. But for me, shifting the action to the "real" world meant less reliance on endless stop motion fight sequences and freshened things up immensely. The visuals are truly spectacular, even by today's standards meaning Revolutions is easily the best looking of the three films and it has a more epic scope that reminded me of the last battle sequences of Return Of The Jedi done in the style of Aliens, and for a sci-fi nerd that's the ultimate combination! The Wachowski's strengths always lied in concepts and visual effects so Revolutions is a much more satisfying cocktail than the clunky wordiness of Reloaded making for a truly jaw dropping thrill ride; the attack on Zion's docking platform is one of the best action sequences I've ever seen and it's a far more satisfying package than the lumbering CGI jerk off that was Avatar. If they'd only trimmed the superfluous flab off the story and made it two films instead of three, I think a worthy sequel would have emerged. That aside, Revolutions is still a highly under-rated finale and well worth a second look.
November 16, 2006
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Meh...okay, but a really disappointing ending to what could have been a fantastic trilogy.
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    1. Neo: I just have never...
    2. Rama-Kandra: ...heard a program speak of love?
    3. Neo: It's a... human emotion.
    4. Rama-Kandra: No, it is a word. What matters is the connection the word implies. I see that you are in love. Can you tell me what you would give to hold on to that connection?
    5. Neo: Anything.
    6. Rama-Kandra: Then perhaps the reason you're here is not so different from the reason I'm here.
    – Submitted by Geraldo G (5 months ago)
    1. Agent Smith: Can you feel it, Mr. Anderson? Closing in on you? Oh I can, I really should thank you after all. It was, after all, it was your life that taught me the purpose of all life. The purpose of life is to end.
    – Submitted by Typhon Q (5 months ago)
    1. Agent Smith: Get away from me!
    2. Neo: What are you afraid of?
    3. Agent Smith: It's a trick!
    4. Neo: You were right, Smith. You're always right. It was inevitable.
    – Submitted by Matthew D (9 months ago)
    1. Agent Smith: Mr. Anderson, welcome back, we've missed you. You like what I've done with the place?
    2. Neo: It ends tonight.
    3. Agent Smith: I know it does, I've seen it. That's why the rest of me is just going to enjoy the show, because they only know that I'm the one that beats you.
    – Submitted by Matthew D (9 months ago)
    1. Neo: The program Smith has gone beyond your control, soon he will spread through this city as he has spread through The Matrix, you can not stop him... but I can.
    – Submitted by Kareem A (9 months ago)
    1. Agent Smith: Wait. I've seen this. I stand here, right here, and I'm supposed to say something. I say, Everything that has a beginning has an end, Neo.
    – Submitted by Lucas M (11 months ago)

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