Short answer: Enjoyed it, but was a little disappointed in the end. Can't please everyone, I guess...
Mav23 said:
...prepared to label it on par with the original as I found the intense (more star wars-ish) "real world" action quite dilectable.
The Battle of Zion was nice, but I missed the action inside the Matrix. Kinda ironic watching a movie about the Matrix and not seeing much of it. The Matrix, I mean. The original was all about moving into, around, and inside the Matrix with agents on your tail, etc. Revolutions? They slip into and out of the Matrix so easiliy. Understandably, they didn't want to repeat action that's already seen in the original and Reloaded, but I still felt it was badly missing.
Mav23 said:
I also thought that the Neo/Smith fight at the end was AWESOME (until they were in the mud, I liked the feel of the rainy street much more).
Rainy street had a good atmosphere. Believable combat inside the building: also good. Superman manoeuvres in the sky? That seemed a little silly to me. A friend described it as coming straight out of DragonBallZ (I wouln't know). Also the showdown seemed too short, and Neo just gave up at the end (even if he knew "it would be over"). Neo was such a wuss in Revolutions, not that I expect him to be much better, given that we have to balance his super-hero status in Reloaded, but again, it was something I missed in this one.
Mav23 said:
...I was about to like this movie as much as the first, when something terrible happened... the ending. It was just all so unsatisfying.
I agree. It didn't feel like the humans accomplished anything with that cease-fire / 'peace'. Until the superman moves with Neo and Agent Smith, I was actually enjoying it quite a lot.
dextorboot said:
(can't bring myself to spend money on that franchise after Reloaded)
I liked Reloaded. I know not many did, but I'm happy to say I'm one of them. Much more Matrix action than Revolutions in any case.
cff said:
...even the Smith fight was kinda unsatisfying for me...
Agreed.
cff said:
...at the start with the train station...
Was there any point to the Trainman character?
cff said:
Personally I'd only recommend to visit the movie if you absolutely want to see how part #2 ends, but in my eye Revolutions is a real shame to the matrix universe.
Oh, I'm still recommending my friends see it, but I do tell them that I was disappointed with it, just to prepare them.
cff said:
I should add that I actually liked Reloaded.
Oh, great!
Bandit LOAF said:
And then they completely forgot about any of this and made two movies about guys in suits punching eachother to protect a made up city no one cares about.
If 'Empire Strikes Back' and 'Return of the Jedi' followed the same awful design as the Matrix sequels did, they'd be about Luke and company preventing people from breaking into Admiral Ackbars house instead of defeating the evil empire. And at the end the Empire would say "Well, we've still enslaved the universe, but we're going to stop trying to break into Admiral Ackbar's house!".
A little more biting than how I would put it, but that's essentially how I feel as well. I don't like how there wasn't much of what made the original so good in Revolutions. And as I said before, the humans really didn't win that much, did they?
Quarto said:
Personally, I'm still traumatised by Reloaded.
Wow, that's harsh. But an opinion you're entitled to, of course.
Quarto said:
(except for the first thirty minutes, but that part was really the ending of Reloaded, not the start of Revolutions)
I think they rushed through tying up Reloaded's loose ends, namely returning Neo to consciousness. I heard that Reloaded and Revolutions was always meant to be one movie. Now it seems that the only reason why they knocked out Neo at the end of Reloaded was so they could have a cliff-hanger to tie to Revolutions. It would have been possible to have Reloaded and Revolutions separately, I think.
Shaggy said:
There's billions of people plugged in and you can't release all of them, especially not all at once.
And there is one of the biggest problems. I don't think there could have been a decent conclusion where Neo and Trinity remained alive, either. It would probably take more than a few movies to free humanity (and where would they live? Earth is destroyed), it'd probably take an entire TV series. Oops. Hope no one gets any ideas.
Shaggy said:
...some people might not want to be unplugged...
Given that the war is 'over', the real world is a wasteland, and you can't force the machines to give up their power supply, I don't think many people would mind returning to the Matrix.
Shaggy said:
...but the first film wasn't totally written with a trilogy in mind(which is why some things don't jive quite right).
Why many things don't feel right...
Shaggy said:
...if people want to leave the Matrix the machines will allow them to.
I wonder how that might be brought about. Are the machines really that benevolent?
Shaggy said:
My advice for anyone who doesn't understand it all, or doesn't like it, is to go back and see it all again. Watch the Animatrix, which fills in a lot of gaps, and at least see the films a couple of times.
I still want to get the box set when it comes out, so I can see it all again and maybe enjoy it a little bit more. And I have the Animatrix, but I don't think it helps that much. Except maybe the Renaissance and the Osiris. I don't see why people would scorch the skies anyway, it was essentially global suicide, but I suppose it was necessary for the Matrix to come about in the first place.