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A disconnect from the original
by Rui (movies profile)
Oct 14, 2006
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I came into the Matrix Revolutions expecting an explanation, a resolution, and given the quality of its predecessors, some inspiration -- but all I got were irrelevant descriptions, resulting in even more confusion.
I don't want to spoil the movie for anyone, but suffice it to say that it did not answer any of the more important, pressing, mysteries from Reloaded. The movie wasn't bad, it wasn't terrible, but it was misguided. I am not going to be nitpicky (although there were some real corny lines for sure), I am just going to comment on the broad, overall themes of the movie. Basically, it went down a path that didn't build upon what the trilogy had so brilliantly created for the first two movies. It did not focus on the characters we have come to love -- Morpheus? -- or the ones we have come to be intrigued by -- Seraph? Merv? Persephone? -- but on subplots that did little to enhance the story. (With the exception of the captain =) It tried to be a story solely about the human race as a whole, forgetting that it had begun as a story about individuals, individuals we cared about, and about the relationship between humans and machines. Instead of an intelligent, clever, discussion about man and machine, it simply degraded into a war, a war about humans, a war that had lost its meaning.
Most importantly, it did not capitalize on the magic that is the Matrix. In this movie, the actual Matrix took a back seat far, far behind the prominence of Zion. And I don't know about you, but it is the Matrix, and not Zion, that holds me spellbound. It is the Matrix that I believe in, and I got way too little of it in Revolutions.
The religious motif was also too overt in Revolutions. The story became bloated and too abstract to identify with, where it would have been a lot leaner and smarter had it just stayed within the confines of the Matrix.
Final conclusion? Go see it, but don't have your hopes too high up ... |
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