I really, really liked The Matrix Revolutions, but I understand why a lot of people wouldn’t, too. Where the last movie was very, very wordy with a decent-sized helping of action, this movie was more action and considerably less wordy. It felt very short, too, but my watch said it really wasn’t as short as I felt it was.

The first hour or so of this movie made me realize why I really liked the first Matrix movie much, much better than either sequel — there’s no MATRIX in the sequels. There’s scenes of Neo doing cool stuff in the Matrix, and dealing with Rogue programs, but there’s no interaction with any of the people they’re supposed to be trying to save.

I really would’ve preferred it if there had been a reasonable explanation on why they went to all this trouble to find The One, who’d be able to do all this awesome in-Matrix stuff, then, you know, put him on a ship where he was a normal human and didn’t really do a whole lot with him.

There are a lot of things in Reloaded (and quite a few in Revolutions) that I would’ve preferred to see done differently, but all in all, Revolutions makes up for the pile of crap that Reloaded was, in my mind.

I was a bit confused by exactly what happened in that last fight. My friend Matthew had this theory about matter and anti-matter, but it was a bit fuzzy to both of us. That last fight was really cool, but two thoughts kept running through my head:

1.) “The choreographer has watched a lot of Dragonball Z.”
2.) “You know, I hate Superman, but they could make an awesome Superman movie like this.”

I was very, very glad to see that, after the horribly fake-looking fights in the last movie, they learned their lesson: lots of rain and lightning can hide the computer animation pretty effectively.

Um, that’s it. If you liked the first two, you’ll probably enjoy this. It’s better than the second, but not half as good as the first.
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