It Ends Tonight
The time has come to finish another movie series. As is typically the case, this movie is generally regarded as the worst in the series. The first movie in the series was regarded as innovative and awesome, and the second one was less innovative but included some pretty spectacular action. The third one … ties up the series. But you aren’t coming here for me to regurgitate Rotten Tomatoes scores into your faces with a couple of dick jokes; you’re here to find out my opinion on these movies … with a couple of dick jokes. So let’s penis this up with my review of The Matrix Revolutions, written and directed by Andy and Larry (Lana) Wachowski, and starring Keanu Reeves, Hugo Weaving, Carrie-Anne Moss, Laurence Fishburne, Jada Pinkett Smith, Mary Alice, Sing Ngai, Bruce Spence, Lambert Wilson, Nathaniel Lees, Harry J. Lennix, Clayton Watson, Harold Perrineau Jr., Nona Gaye, Helmut Bakaitis, and Monica Bellucci.
At the end of the last movie, Neo (Keanu Reeves) held up his hand and made some robots fall down. Then he also fell down. So he’s in a coma, his mind being stuck in the matrix somehow, even though he’s not plugged into it. He finds himself trapped in a train station with a family that probably owns a couple 7-11’s. It’s controlled by The Trainman (Bruce Spence) and the Merovingian (Lambert Wilson). Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne) and Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss) go to the Merovingian to negotiate for Neo’s release, but Trinity decides the best negotiating technique she has is to pull a gun on the Merovingian. With Neo out, he sets out to go to the machine city with Trinity while Morpheus, Niobe (Jada Pinkett Smith), and the rest of the crew to participate in a gigantic battle against the machines in Zion. And then some more CG nonsense and the end.
Much as with Reloaded, this movie has a weaker story and must attempt to stand alone on its action. But where Reloaded had a couple of epic, practical action scenes, this movie had two CG guys bumping into each other as thousands of other CG guys watched. The story mostly seems like a desperate attempt to tie up the story they had started at whatever the cost, and then throw in some vaguely biblical imagery because, as we all know, Keanu Reeves is computer Jesus. I still have no idea what would motivate the computers to reach a treaty with the humans, but it happened so we’ll just have to deal with it. The dialogue continued to not impress, especially when Neo was talking to the Oracle. Every question he asked was met with, “You already know the answer to that question.” Well thanks for wasting our fucking time, Oracle/Wachowski’s.
Story had already been a bit of a problem in Reloaded, but the freeway scene was worth the price of admission all by itself. In this movie, the action scenes were all pretty disappointing. One action scene was when Morpheus, Trinity, and Seraph fought their way in to see the Merovingian. The CG used in this scene was much more disappointing than it should have been with how much money I imagine they had at their disposal. They also should just give up on using guns. If I had an accuracy rating as low as they have in Call of Duty I would kill myself, but I’d probably miss my shot with my gun in my mouth. I don’t even know why the Merovingian was intimidated with Trinity holding a gun against his head. There was at least a 75% chance that she’d miss. But then she’d just kick him into a wall with the jumping crane kick that she has in her contract that she must do at least once per film. I also felt like the outcome of the fight between Neo and Bane would have been different if Neo didn’t just assume that being awesome in the matrix meant that he didn’t need to work out in the real world. I would say that I didn’t mind the battle for Zion near the end of the movie. Yeah, it was a lot of CG nonsense, and mostly involved some giant robots shooting at a hole in the ceiling, but it was pretty epic in scale and got the greater majority of the small characters the opportunity to be a hero. The little wormy guy that loved Neo got to kick some ammo into a robot, Link’s pussy (Zee) got to shoot a giant robot with a bazooka, and Link and the crew of the Hammer got to sit in chairs and pint at things with joysticks. Okay, that last part was boring. They were having this epic scene where they were flying the Hammer through some narrow tunnels with Sentinels in pursuit being barely held off by turrets on the ship, and a couple of times they decided to show the excitement of that scene by showing the guys controlling the turrets in what could best be described as playing Xbox. I admit to wanting to see an ending with some hand to hand combat, but what I didn’t want is a big CG mess of two collections of pixels smashing together in the rain. They interrupt this occasionally with two real people kicking and punching at each other, but let’s not waste lot of time on that. Look what computers can do now!
Someone came up with an interesting idea in this movie: “Let’s give Keanu Reeves some room to stretch his acting chops.” Interesting, but not intelligent. He sucks. Trinity gets a new piece of jewelry through her chest and he has to try to cry over her. It didn’t work out well for him. Someone must’ve realized it wouldn’t work out so they burned out his eyes and covered half of his face with a scarf over his icky eye goo. Carrie-Anne Moss? Still a lezzie. But her acting looks pretty amazing next to Keanu. I think the star of this movie when it comes to performances is Ian Bliss as Bane. That guy does a really good impression of Hugo Weaving.
Now we’ve finished the Matrix trilogy, and the Wachowski’s made good and sure that nobody would be asking for them to ruin a fourth one. The story was a rushed attempt to tie up loose ends, the action was 90% CG, and they tried to get Keanu Reeves to act. Bad decision, guys/guy and girl. It’s not the worst movie ever, but it does kill all of the enjoyable parts of the previous two movies. I don’t really recommend it … unless it’s cheaper to buy the movies in a trilogy. I own it, but only out of my obsessive-compulsive completionism. The Matrix Revolutions gets “Why do you persist?” out of “It is done.”
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