The Matrix: Revolutions

Matrix Revolutions is a reasonably satisfying conclusion to the Matrix trilogy. The third and final instalment begins exactly where the second left off, and if you want to avoid initial confusion, you need to have "The Matrix Reloaded" fresh in your memory.

While the humans in Zion prepare for the machines' attack, Neo is spiritually trapped halfway between the Matrix and the real world, so Trinity and Morpheus spring into action. Even though Neo is freed, Zion is still a long way from being saved. How can Neo stop the machines, and how can he halt the program Agent Smith, who has infected the Matrix? It looks like a hopeless task when Neo decides to seek out the source of the war between humans and machines, the Machine City.

The ending has a poetry of its own and makes the film feel more of a piece than the second one. More problematic is the fact that many of the scenes feel like repetitions. The battle scenes between humans and machines look like something we have seen before, and it is also bordering on exhausting to sit through the 117th showdown between Neo and Agent Smith. The Matrix trilogy runs to more than six hours in total, and the story simply cannot carry that.

As in the second film, the computer effects are far too visible, and it seriously damages the intensity and involvement that you feel like a spectator watching a computer game.