You have to watch this if you like anything about the matrix at all... (Matrix Revolutions (DVD))

Member Name: ChrisJHoward

Product:	Matrix Revolutions (DVD)
Date:	18/08/09 (14 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Awesome visual effects.

Disadvantages: some confused and loose bits...

2003 saw the final instalment of Wachowski brothers Matrix Trilogy, Revolutions follows on directly from Reloaded and ties up the pioneering Sci-Fi that the world seemed to go quite literally berserk for.

The Wachowski brothers gave birth to a monster in these films and became masters of their craft not only with fantastic story lines, script and a cast that gets better with each film. The third part though is perhaps the darkest of the three and lends itself quite well to the theme of good and evil. Although all three are full of prophecy, indirect religious reference, ideology, mythology, simulated reality and elements of philosophy. In an ongoing battle between man and machine nothing is particularly fresh about this film as it is a direct follow on, but that's the point, these film are hugely successful because of the franchise/institution they've created (you've all see kids hanging around wearing dark glasses and long black coats - hoping people might think they had actually had their minds opened, young girls and boys with slicked back hair and appearing all aloof like Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss) and Neo (Keanu Reeves) and there was even an energy drink (Powerade) that adopted the cyber-green shade of the matrix, (I think it should have been called crapade, or ridiculousade).

Unfortunately this film was not as greatly received by the world as it previous two parts and (thankfully) the hype overwhelming amount of advertising disappeared fairly quickly (the only reason the drink stayed on shelves for so long was because it tasted like fairy washing up liquid and nobody bought it). This is not to say Revolutions is no good, far from it, it is incredibly entertaining and well worth a watch if not just for the electric blue bolts fizzing around the Logos ship. There are some awesome special effects, as you would expect no less from the W Bros, with their bullet time camera technique becoming more and more refined... Choreographed fight sequences out of this world and spectacular gun fights from start to finish I recommend all three films to anyone who has been hibernating for the last ten years (although don't get confused these are films, not documentaries reflecting how the world has changed since you fell asleep).

Although you might not get the closure you want from the finale and the answers to all the questions thrown up in the previous movies, there is a sense of resolution and quite symbolically a new dawn emerges at the end of the this film. However if you want all those questions answered or you wanna pick holes in things and you have an inclination to put things down because it just didn't communicate to you then...get a relationship with another human being, stop being such a tawdry fool and let something entertain you even if only on face value...this is a good film that can be enjoyed if you see past your own expectation and stop asking so much of someone's else's creativity.

Prepare for confusion, riotous mahem, a huge school of metal squiddies that will blow your mind when they merge together to form a giant talking head, also this film does hold a certain sense of beauty in the end of era kind of way, let's not forget that a generation of kids have now grown up on these film, well almost.

Summary: This is a really good film, not the best but just watch it