The Matrix Revolutions (2003)

All Critics (219) | Top Critics (42) | Fresh (77) | Rotten (138) | DVD (42)

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)

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

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

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

Geoff Pevere

Toronto Star

Top Critic

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

November 5, 2003 Full Review

Eric Harrison

Houston Chronicle

Top Critic

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

Tim Brayton

Antagony & Ecstasy

Finale with same heavy violence, weaker script.

December 28, 2010 Full Review

Nell Minow

Common Sense Media

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

April 29, 2009 Full Review

Felix Vasquez Jr.

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

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

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 (4)

Wesley Lovell

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

Daniel Schweiger

Film Threat

Zzzzzz.

May 4, 2005 Full Review | Comments (6)

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 (4)

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

Ethan Alter

NYC Film Critic

• 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)