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damn, the weather's been shitty lately. should i blame my unhappiness on that or a mere change of luck that's made things go the opposite of how i've wanted them to? This certain person isn't talking to me anymore (or not nearly as much as before). I think i'll just call myself unlucky..
Anyways, Matrix Revolutions, when I watched it on opening night, added to the list of disappointing sequels this year. First Madonna, then Harry Potter: Order (it was okay, but you can't say it was nearly as good as the third or fourth ones). Now, Matrix gives the third strike. Jay-Z better save the day with a home-run retirement album.
Let's talk a little about Revolutions: The ending was too ordinary, not to mention predictable. We were discussing the Matrices in math class (no pun intended haha) and my teacher predicted the ending. The ending of Reloaded provided sooooo much opportunity for revelation and plot twist in the third, but Revolutions neglected to take any advantage of it. The Jesus Christ parallel was such an easy-way out, as low as a kick to the balls. The love theme - how machines and humans both love and how it heavily determines one's actions - was decent, but it would have been more interesting if the main antagonist Agent Smith showed signs of it. The dialogue was very tacky. I think, by merely listening to the actors speak in this movie, my intelligence suffered some bad injuries. The theme of choice (Neo's decision at the end) was totally contradictory, since you know that the machines are just going to enslave the human race all over again.
The biggest disappointment, though, was the fighting scenes. I'm not a big war-action fan, so I'll leave it up to you to judge the quality of the Zion fight. But any fist-to-fist combat in Revolutions suffered from a serious lack of originality. Was there anything special about the beginning fights with everybody walking the ceilings? No. Not unless you count everybody pointing guns at everyone else during the Frenchman scene, a recycled idea from Romeo Must Die. Btw, what caused the Frenchman to decide to leave his exquisite, refined French restaurant for a German bondage party? The final showdown with Agent Smith and Neo was as bad as any of the other Smith-Neo encounters from the last two. The aerial combat was a nice touch, but everything else including the explosions was too dull. What happened to the style and creativity so prominent in the second Matrix? I saw 10 minutes of it last night and was just blown away by its sexy and savvy stylistic brilliance. The twin ghosts clad in white vanishing and materializing to dodge bullets and get into cars, Morpheus's smooth katana cut followed by pumping bullets into the belly underside of the overturned vehicle he shoots, Neo's sword-dagger-lamppost skills, the Agent flattening a convertible into a crispy pancake - none of the aesthetic or imaginative genius which the scenes in Reloaded were saturated with - none of it made its way into the third installment.
I still haven't figured out whether or not there is any significance in the little Indian girl and how she relates to the Oracle and the Architect. Perhaps that's the missing much-needed plot twist which most people have overlooked. Even if that's so, shame on the Wachowski brothers for allowing fans to criticize all other aspects of the movie so much that they don't have the time or energy to ponder about this remaining question.
So out of a 10, I'd give this one a -4. Actually, forget that. I'd give it a -4-4i, cuz it's so bad it doesn't deserve a real score. Okay, i'm a loser - and I think I've ranted enough. Ciao.
Anyways, Matrix Revolutions, when I watched it on opening night, added to the list of disappointing sequels this year. First Madonna, then Harry Potter: Order (it was okay, but you can't say it was nearly as good as the third or fourth ones). Now, Matrix gives the third strike. Jay-Z better save the day with a home-run retirement album.
Let's talk a little about Revolutions: The ending was too ordinary, not to mention predictable. We were discussing the Matrices in math class (no pun intended haha) and my teacher predicted the ending. The ending of Reloaded provided sooooo much opportunity for revelation and plot twist in the third, but Revolutions neglected to take any advantage of it. The Jesus Christ parallel was such an easy-way out, as low as a kick to the balls. The love theme - how machines and humans both love and how it heavily determines one's actions - was decent, but it would have been more interesting if the main antagonist Agent Smith showed signs of it. The dialogue was very tacky. I think, by merely listening to the actors speak in this movie, my intelligence suffered some bad injuries. The theme of choice (Neo's decision at the end) was totally contradictory, since you know that the machines are just going to enslave the human race all over again.
The biggest disappointment, though, was the fighting scenes. I'm not a big war-action fan, so I'll leave it up to you to judge the quality of the Zion fight. But any fist-to-fist combat in Revolutions suffered from a serious lack of originality. Was there anything special about the beginning fights with everybody walking the ceilings? No. Not unless you count everybody pointing guns at everyone else during the Frenchman scene, a recycled idea from Romeo Must Die. Btw, what caused the Frenchman to decide to leave his exquisite, refined French restaurant for a German bondage party? The final showdown with Agent Smith and Neo was as bad as any of the other Smith-Neo encounters from the last two. The aerial combat was a nice touch, but everything else including the explosions was too dull. What happened to the style and creativity so prominent in the second Matrix? I saw 10 minutes of it last night and was just blown away by its sexy and savvy stylistic brilliance. The twin ghosts clad in white vanishing and materializing to dodge bullets and get into cars, Morpheus's smooth katana cut followed by pumping bullets into the belly underside of the overturned vehicle he shoots, Neo's sword-dagger-lamppost skills, the Agent flattening a convertible into a crispy pancake - none of the aesthetic or imaginative genius which the scenes in Reloaded were saturated with - none of it made its way into the third installment.
I still haven't figured out whether or not there is any significance in the little Indian girl and how she relates to the Oracle and the Architect. Perhaps that's the missing much-needed plot twist which most people have overlooked. Even if that's so, shame on the Wachowski brothers for allowing fans to criticize all other aspects of the movie so much that they don't have the time or energy to ponder about this remaining question.
So out of a 10, I'd give this one a -4. Actually, forget that. I'd give it a -4-4i, cuz it's so bad it doesn't deserve a real score. Okay, i'm a loser - and I think I've ranted enough. Ciao.