Matrix Revolutions falls apart in 8 minutes, 10 seconds.

[elfs]

I watched the first ten minutes of Matrix: Revolutions, a movie many people have asked me not to watch just because they didn't want me to be disappointed. Too late. Ten minutes into the film, I'm disappointed.

The Wachowski Brothers seem to think that they can change the meaning of the Matrix from an massive virtual reality in which human beings are pawns and environment providers and within which some of the programs have arisen to consciousness, or free will (the two aren't the same) and now vie for control of their respective futures, to one in which the Matrix is a metaphor for the actual inner workings of the operating system a'la Tron.

The Matrix and The Matrix Reloaded were smarter than their writers deserved. No wonder it all fell apart so fast.

Comments

[fallenpegasus]

It gets worse. So so so much worse.

I hope you didn't actually watch the whole thing!

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

[lovingboth]

If I did an edited highlights of Matrix, it'd be over an hour long. Reloaded, about 20 minutes. Revolutions, under five.

[(Anonymous)]

The first movie was a delight (aside from the painfully absurd "Duracell Hypothesis"), the second was OK with good moments, and the third shall not be spoken of.

Rarely have hopes been raised so high, then ground beneath the heel of incompetence. It's on par with the George Lucas Atrocity that is Episodes I - III (though I could be very happy watching Episode I if you edit out anything to do with small children or a certain "child's toy product placement" which shall remain nameless).

[geak.livejournal.com]

The only way I can begin to cope with certain movie franchises is to pretend they don't exist. Ghostbusters, Highlander, Matrix. They didn't actually have sequals. They had bad dreams, easily banished in the light of day.

[kistha.livejournal.com]

If the writers had followed the brilliantly laid plot that spanned from one to two (think about cookies, reprogramming, and color filters as *places*) it would have been fricking awesome.

Instead it was total crap.