...a frantic and ponderous piece that is content enough to go through its wooden stage and whimper out with a deadening bang...[a] mind-bending misguided mess
The Matrix Revolutions (2003)
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Reviews Counted:202
Fresh:75
Rotten:127
Average Rating:5.3/10
Consensus: A disappointing conclusion to the Matrix trilogy as characters and ideas take a back seat to the special effects.
Rated: R [See Full Rating] for sci-fi violence and brief sexual content
Runtime: 2 hrs 18 mins
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
Theatrical Release:Nov 5, 2003 Wide
Box Office: $139,076,032
Synopsis: Everything that has a beginning has an end. At the stunning conclusion of The Matrix Reloaded, Neo (KEANU REEVES) took another step forward in the quest for truth that began with his journey... Everything that has a beginning has an end. At the stunning conclusion of The Matrix Reloaded, Neo (KEANU REEVES) took another step forward in the quest for truth that began with his journey into the real world at the outset of The Matrix - but that transformation has left him drained of his power, adrift in a no man's land between the Matrix and the Machine World. While Trinity (CARRIE-ANNE MOSS) holds vigil over Neo's comatose body, Morpheus (LAURENCE FISHBURNE) grapples with the revelation that the One in which he has invested a life's worth of faith is merely another system of control invented by the architects of the Matrix. In The Matrix Revolutions, the final explosive chapter in the Matrix trilogy, the epic war between man and machine reaches a thundering crescendo: the Zion military, aided by courageous civilian volunteers like Zee (NONA GAYE) and the Kid (CLAYTON WATSON), desperately battles to hold back the Sentinel invasion as the Machine army bores into their stronghold. Facing total annihilation, the citizens of the last bastion of humanity fight not only for their own lives, but for the future of mankind itself. But an unknown element poisons the ranks from within: the rogue program Smith (HUGO WEAVING) has cunningly hijacked Bane (IAN BLISS), a member of the hovercraft fleet. Growing more powerful with each passing second, Smith is beyond even the control of the Machines and now threatens to destroy their empire along with the real world and the Matrix. The Oracle (MARY ALICE) offers Neo her final words of guidance, which he accepts with the knowledge that she is a program and her words could be just another layer of falsehood in the grand scheme of the Matrix. With the aid of Niobe (JADA PINKETT SMITH), Neo and Trinity choose to travel farther than any human has ever dared to go - a treacherous journey above ground, across the scorched surface of the earth and into the heart of the menacing Machine City. In this vast mechanized metropolis, Neo comes face to face with the ultimate power in the Machine world - the Deus Ex Machina - and strikes a bargain that is the only hope for a dying world. The war will end tonight, with Neo's destiny and the fate of two civilizations inexorably tied to the outcome of his cataclysmic confrontation with Smith. Warner Bros. Pictures presents, in association with Village Roadshow Pictures and NPV Entertainment, a Silver Pictures production, The Matrix Revolutions, starring KEANU REEVES, LAURENCE FISHBURNE and CARRIE-ANNE MOSS. The film also stars HUGO WEAVING and JADA PINKETT SMITH. The Matrix Revolutions is written and directed by THE WACHOWSKI BROTHERS and produced by JOEL SILVER. The executive producers are ANDY WACHOWSKI, LARRY WACHOWSKI, GRANT HILL, ANDREW MASON and BRUCE BERMAN. The director of photography is BILL POPE, A.S.C.; the production designer is OWEN PATERSON; the editor is ZACH STAENBERG, A.C.E.; the music is composed by DON DAVIS; the visual effects supervisor is JOHN GAETA; and the costume designer is KYM BARRETT. The Matrix Revolutions will be released worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company, and in select territories by Village Roadshow Pictures. This film has been rated "R" by the MPAA for "sci-fi violence and brief sexual content." [More]
Starring: Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, Laurence Fishburne, Hugo Weaving
Starring: Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, Laurence Fishburne, Hugo Weaving, Jada Pinkett Smith, Collin Chou, Mary Alice, Tanveer Atwal, Lambert Wilson, Monica Bellucci, Ian Bliss, Harold Perrineau, Nona Gaye, Nathaniel Lees, Clayton Watson, Harry J. Lennix, Gina Torres, Anthony Zerbe, Cornel West
Director: Andy Wachowski, Larry Wachowski
Director: Andy Wachowski, Larry Wachowski
Screenwriter: Andy Wachowski, Larry Wachowski
Producer: Joel Silver
Composer: Don Davis
Studio: Warner Bros.
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Release:
May 12, 2009
DVD Features:
- 2-Disc Set
- Region 1
- Keep Case
- Full Frame - 1.33
Audio:
- Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
- Dolby Digital 5.1 - French
Additional Release Material:
- "Before the Revolution" (A 3-D Matrix Timeline)
- "Future Gamer: The Matrix Online"
- Featurette: "Super Burly Brawl"
- Trailers: Theatrical Trailer
Documentary:
- 1. "Revolutions Recalibrated"
- 2. "CG Revolution"
Text/Photo Galleries:
- "3-D Evolution" (Multidimensional Stills Gallery)
DVD-ROM Features:
- Links to the Matrix Online Test Site and the Official Matrix Website
Reviews for The Matrix Revolutions
...a frantic and ponderous piece that is content enough to go through its wooden stage and whimper out with a deadening bang...[a] mind-bending misguided mess
...one of the more entertaining mindless action flicks to come around in a while.
Talky and morose, the film is missing the mystery and explosive action that set the first two entries apart.
Thus ends the Matrix trilogy, not even with the dignity of a whimper but with the timid finality of a dull thud.
The Wachowski brothers have rendered their chronicles into banality, as if trying to imitate the qualitative tailspin of the Star Wars series.
This final installment is both too much of a good thing and too little.
The third film in the series, while not quite as good as the first film, does bring the trilogy to a satisfying conclusion.
For many devoted Wachowski Brothers fans, this trilogy-ending film inspires nothing more than the whispered words “I’m out.”
...while being an even thornier thicket of existential philosophy than `Reloaded,' it offers little visionary action between the brain cramps.
It succeeds only in diminishing its predecessors' legacy, and turning a cinematic landmark into nothing more than business as usual. What a waste.
I think I liked The Matrix better when the solution was still unknown.
There's nothing even resembling a surprise in the third and weakest installment of the trilogy.
The Wachowski team is on a fast track to eclipse George Lucas for the title of Most Promising Filmmaker Who is Now a Complacent Hack.
Look out! A big drill bit bores through the ceiling. Followed by a giant orange apron encasing a colossal Home Depot employee.
Neo's messianic abilities, the war against the machines, the freeing of mankind, the irrelevant characters practically nothing pays off in a satisfying way.
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