Review – The Matrix: Revolutions

I’m forced to retract an assertion I made by implication in my reviews of the first two pictures in this set. Until I sat down to watch the final episode, I earnestly believed that if they’d cut out all the pseudo-metaphysical crap and just stick to fight scenes that they’d actually end up with really good movies. Well, I must not have been the only person who thought so, because the philosobabble is kept to a minimum this time around. Oddly enough, it didn’t really make the movie any better. Of course that’s at least in part because they replaced the boring bits with extended, effects-intensive mega-battles that are a lot more noisy than interesting. And as usual with epic trilogies (think the original Star Wars set or Lord of the Rings) the end is exceptionally maudlin. Otherwise it’s a worthy conclusion. Mildly amusing