I'm Back
My friend is out of the hospital and recuperating as well as can be expected. I'm back home now, after having spent the entire weekend in NYC, which Ihave grown to dread. I left all the traffic behind, or so I thought.
Now for my 10-second review of Matrix Revolutions - It sucked.
Hmm, I guess that wasn't even 10 seconds. Okay, let me be a little bit more elaborate. Here thar be spoilers, so enter at your own risk.
Neo has got to be the stupidest man in the world. Bane is calling him "Mr. Anderson" in that monotone for like 10 minutes before he finally figures out that Bane's been possessed by Agent Smith. Well, actually, that isn't even what got him to figure it out. No, Neo had to "see" Agent Smith, unlike the entire audience, who copped to it really early on from all the mega-obvious clues.
Trinity's death scene - I was screaming in my mind "Would you just die already!"
The kid at the end running around telling everyone that the war was over - Could he have been more like Tiny Tim from "A Christmas Carol"? Only had he gone around saying in that preternaturally cheerful voice "God bless us all, everyone." I kept waiting for him to utter those very words.
The Wachowski brothers seem to have mistaken a quantity of Agent Smith for quality. Sure, there were tons of Agents Smith running around, but they weren't saying nearly enough. When you have a great villain like that, use him!
The same goes for the Merovingian, but they could have improved what little he did say too. For example, was it necessary to have him hit us over the head with the "not coincidence, but consequence" schtick? I think not.
A better explanation for why the Oracle looked different in this film would have been "I was bored with my old outfit, so I bought a new one." Short, simple, not vague.
Well, that's about it. To quote the Oracle "Everything that has a beginning, has an end", which was the best thing you could say about this film.
Comments
Oh, I didn't think it was so bad...it was what it was: mostly a action flick with some mumbo-jumbo tossed in to "sound intelligent". Thankfully they kept Morpheous from preaching to much in this one.
Posted by: Randy | November 12, 2003 11:01 AM
God and come to think I already invested 2+ hours in the story and they make me wait to see how it turns out and it sucks...
Frankly I thought part one er the second film was weak.
Posted by: Rick DeMent | November 12, 2003 10:00 PM