The Matrix Revolutions (2003)

All Critics (216) | Top Critics (39) | Fresh (77) | Rotten (134) | DVD (41)

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

Desson Thomson

Washington Post

Top Critic

This final installment is both too much of a good thing and too little.

November 7, 2003 Full Review | Comment (1)

Joe Baltake

Sacramento Bee

Top Critic

There's nothing even resembling a surprise in the third and weakest installment of the trilogy.

November 7, 2003 Comment

Bill Muller

Arizona Republic

Top Critic

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 | Comment

J. Hoberman

Village Voice

Top Critic

One of the most original concepts in recent fantasy movie history has devolved into something perfectly ordinary.

November 5, 2003 Full Review | Comment

Geoff Pevere

Toronto Star

Top Critic

As an action movie, it's talky, but it rocks.

November 5, 2003 Full Review | Comment

Eric Harrison

Houston Chronicle

Top Critic

Finale with same heavy violence, weaker script.

December 28, 2010 Full Review | Comment

Nell Minow

Common Sense Media

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 | Comment

John J. Puccio

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 | Comment

Rob Gonsalves

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 | Comments (3)

Wesley Lovell

Oscar Guy

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 | Comment

Daniel Schweiger

Film Threat

Zzzzzz.

May 4, 2005 Full Review | Comments (4)

Nick Schager

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 (3)

Jeannette Catsoulis

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 | Comment

Ethan Alter

NYC Film Critic

Tt fails to create the links to the first or even the second film that would bind a viewer in its mysteries.

November 6, 2004 Full Review | Comment

Douglas Pratt

Movie City News

A multi-million dollar fiasco.

October 15, 2004 Full Review | Comment

Steve Crum

Kansas City Kansan

• 1. Kid: Neo, I believe.
  – Submitted by Jondede 0 (5 months ago)
• 1. General Mifune: All right. You all know me so I'll will say it as simiple as I can. If it is our time to die its our time. All I ask is if we have to give this bastard our lives ,we'll give them hell before we do!
  – Submitted by Jondede 0 (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 Chris P (9 months ago)
• 1. Agent Smith: Why, Mr. Anderson? Why do you do it? Why get up? Why keep fighting? Do you believe you're fighting for something? For more than your survival? Can you tell me what it is? Do you even know? Is it freedom? Or truth? Perhaps peace? Yes? No? Could it be for love? Illusions, Mr. Anderson. Vagaries of perception. The temporary constructs of a feeble human intellect trying desperately to justify an existence that is without meaning or purpose. And all of them as artificial as the Matrix itself, although only a human mind could invent something as insipid as love. You must be able to see it, Mr. Anderson. You must know it by now. You can't win. It's pointless to keep fighting. Why, Mr. Anderson? Why? Why do you persist?
  2. Neo: Because I choose to.
  – Submitted by Chris P (9 months ago)