Author: Rawzer
Date: 11/13/03
Rating: 9.6
Movie Rating: R
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Holy damn! In case you only read one sentence in this entire review, let it be the next one.
The Matrix: Revolutions equals The Matrix: Reloaded times infinity.
However, The Matrix and The Matrix: Revolutions exist on two different planes of reality, and therefore cannot be compared accurately.
That's right, this movie was indescribably better than the last one. I'll get down to specifics in a moment. First, remember how cool The Matrix was, because everyone was in the Matrix, fighting three agents, and generally running for their lives and racing to avoid the sentinels, too? That was ridiculously cool. Especially when Neo started to actually kick the agents' asses. Anyway, The Matrix Reloaded was reviewed as worse for a pretty good reason. Neo just started kicking ass, kicking more ass, and proceeded to kick still more ass throughout the movie. It was cool and dull at the same time. Now, The Matrix Revolutions is better for one good reason: Neo is generally out of the picture in the coolest scenes. He's "too cool" for his own good. And Keanu continues to not be a great actor. Oh well.
So okay, what actually makes this movie awesome? It's not the plot, story, acting, or resolution. It's the freakin' hovercrafts, Mech soldiers, and Sentinels. Combined in full battle glory, the three together made me practically cream myself. Seeing a swarm of about three hundred sentinels move as gracefully as a school of sharks, but as fast as minnows, and then moving together to annihilate a gun tower is truly something to give you heart trauma on the spot. Not to mention seeing a horde of Sentinels pouring out of a hole in a rock wall, and being pulverized by God knows how many Mechs with gigantic machine guns. It was ridiculous. I was so vocal about my desire for the hovercrafts earlier in the movie, that at first sight of the Mechs, my girlfriend whispered, "Let me guess, you want one of those, too." I replied with the first thing that came to mind. "Hell, yeah."
Then there's the hovercraft flying full throttle through the maintenance shaft to avoid a swarm of ravenous sentinels and to get to some sort of safety in the gate where the battle is taking place. Everyone tells the female captain (Naomi?) that she'll never make it, it's a maintenance tunnel, it's too small. Even the guy in the base who's monitoring the shafts says, "Sir, I think that's one of ours." The officer says, "it must be a trick, that's a maintenance tunnel." Well, sucks to be you, man! Guess what? That really is a hovercraft going through a freakin' maintenance tunnel! How crazy is that?!
There is one good scene with Neo, but he has very little to do with it, besides ensuring his own survival. He and Trinity are heading to the Machine City, which is blockaded by several hundred nasty looking machine cruisers, who proceed to fire several thousand nasty looking explosive robots at them. Neo uses The Force- er, I mean, his robot manipulation mind powers to destroy all the nasty explosive buggers, as their ship flies through them. Then some sentinels attack, and then they fly up, and over the clouds, and the lightening disables the sentinels and their ship, and they come back down. Well, the things exploding was cool.
Anyway, if you're into Vin Diesel/random violence-type stuff, with space-age machinery blowing each other to bits of fine metallic dust, with fire and shrapnel everywhere, this is a movie for you. Be sure to laugh your head off when Neo tries to escape the train station, too. That's George Lucas-level comedy for you right there.
Watch this movie. Then watch it again. Then stop. Then rent it once or twice for sleep-over parties when it comes to DVD. It's just that good.
This is one of two reviews on this movie. You can find the other review here.