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In the third installment, the epic war between man and machine reaches a thundering crescendo: the Zion military, aided by courageous civilian volunteers like Zee and the Kid, desperately battles to hold back the Sentinel invasion as the Machine army bores into their stronghold. Facing total annihilation, the citizens of the last bastion of humanity fight not only for their own lives, but for the future of mankind itself. But an unknown element poisons the ranks from within: the rogue program Smith has cunningly hijacked Bane, a member of the hovercraft fleet. Growing more powerful with each passing second, Smith is beyond even the control of the Machines and now threatens to destroy their empire along with the real world and the Matrix. The Oracle offers Neo her final words of guidance, which he accepts with the knowledge that she is a program and her words could be just another layer of falsehood in the grand scheme of the Matrix. With the aid of Niobe, Neo and Trinity choose to travel farther than any human has ever dared to go a treacherous journey above ground, across the scorched surface of the earth and into the heart of the menacing Machine City. In this vast mechanized metropolis, Neo comes face to face with the ultimate power in the Machine world--the Deus Ex Machina--and strikes a bargain that is the only hope for a dying world. The war will end tonight, with Neo’s destiny and the fate of two civilizations inexorably tied to the outcome of his cataclysmic confrontation with Smith. (official distributor synopsis)
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There are fewer stupid dialogues and more proper adrenaline action with a drive that will plaster the viewer to their seats. The Battle for Zion is brilliantly shot, the greenish camera filters and the typical visual style of the Wachowskis are not missing. Don Davis does a flawless job and composes his best musical score. It is difficult to compare Revolutions any deeper with the previous parts, which only served as a support for the final installment. The biggest, the most monstrous and the most ambitious of the entire trilogy. A grand finale as it should be.
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Cut Reloaded and glue it together with the best of Revolutions and behold: that would be a film! Yet, after an unbalanced and melted intermediate link, Revolutions is a brisk spectacle that benefits from the chatter of Reloaded (there's no need to think about anything deeply anymore) and the visual mastery that The Matrix is famous for. It’s nice to look at, and the ending is really riveting, as is the message of the whole story. Plus it has a great soundtrack. I love this trilogy because it is not only "one", "two", etc., but is really a conceptual work that, as a whole, creates a huge potential universe that can be further populated. In addition, it allows you to engage your brain and create your own intertextual "matrix" with classics of world philosophy and literature. It may lead to exaggerated constructs, but thank God the "mass" story places such high demands on the viewer at all...
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The raindrops are still falling, the heroes are still the same, but for us that code has somehow changed. It remains green, but no longer flows smoothly. It stumbles – and instead of a quality storyline, it is teeming with unjustified monologues, unbelievable dialogue, and sadly dysfunctional action scenes. When I think back to the perfection of the first installment, the precisely defined characters, and the unforgettable two hours that can be watched endlessly without losing their magic, it feels unfair that the Lana and Lilly Wachowski have fatally let me down and forever ruined one unforgettable story for me. Morpheus has become just a motivational figure, Niobe herself has no role, regardless of who she rescues, and only the tangible bond between Neo and Trinity gives me a feeling of some vitality. And even the perfect final battle does not repair that tainted impression for me. This program has performed an invalid operation and will be terminated.
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Matrix Revolutions has a more tangible and meaningful plot, less pseudo-philosophising and less gratuitous action for effect than in The Matrix Reloaded. I’m satisfied with that. You’ll find yourself yawning through the first hour, but the subsequent “war of the machines” is amazing. If there were more emotion in the final digital fight between Neo and Smith, Revolutions would have been a class better than Reloaded. The film’s ending has an appropriate amount of the pseudo-depth that the whole saga has been faking. Those who thought that there was something big behind everything will be disappointed. Unavoidably disappointed. Three and a half stars.
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As I mentioned with The Matrix Reloaded, these two films should be evaluated together because they work best as a pair. Yes, at times it's overly commercial, and on the other hand, it's sometimes overly philosophical without the philosophy saying much of anything. One ends up going in circles without anything substantial to grasp onto. But when it comes to the final scene, where Neo is supposed to reach the mainframe and either win or lose, it always grips my heart and gives me chills. Certainly, it didn't fulfill the promise of the first film, but I can't help feeling that, with some distance, I'm not actually that disappointed with it.
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