![]() Rene Rodriguez again: ‘ Revolutions conclusively proves that the Wachowskis had little substantial to add to the premise of the 1999 original – our reality is an artificial construct designed by the machines that have enslaved us – when they decided to spin out The Matrix into a trilogy.’ 5Ī trilogy can be examined in terms of its parts (as we’ve done in Part One) but can only really be understood as a whole (as we’ve attempted to do in Part Two). Some critics seem to have forgotten this. The Wachowskis conceived of this story as a trilogy from the outset –not an ‘original’ with two sequels as afterthoughts. Those critics who say that The Matrix could be watched simply as a action movie fell at the first hurdle of the real course that the Brothers had set. They’ve forgotten that if part one of this story needed serious thought, perhaps part three does too. Apparently all they want is some nice, neat – but extremely cool and action-packed – answers to the riddles. Back in 1999, it was relatively easy to pick up on at least some questions that the brothers were addressing: What is real? What does it mean to be human? Are we free? But many questions only surfaced after watching the film three or four times – when you finally begin to understand what’s going on.Īfter four years it seems that the critics (and some fans) have got bored of the questions. ![]() It’s not that The Matrix Revolutions isn’t without problems, but that the key questions which The Matrix raised are still central to the Wachowski’s vision. Like most reviews of each part of the Matrix trilogy, these critics have, to my mind, failed to understand what’s really going on. never addresses or resolves the philosophical questions posed at the beginning of the trilogy.’ It’s just that it all adds up to a supersize nothing: ‘the big bubkis’, to lift a bit of Yiddish from the script.’ 4Ĭosmo Landesman in The Sunday Times accused Reloaded of being ‘just another undistinguished blockbuster, built on special effects, all bang-bang brawn and no brains,’ before going on to write that ‘Revolutions is worse. It’s not that the final chapter in the trilogy doesn’t have stunts and visual wizardry to drop your jaw. 3 Peter Travers agreed in Rolling Stone: ‘At the risk of understatement, The Matrix Revolutions sucks. ‘The razor-sharp logic and exhilarating imagination of the first film has been replaced, in the two sequels, by a pile of quasi-religious symbolism and mythological claptrap that adds up to a whole lot of nothing. Glenn Whipp of the Los Angeles Daily News accused them of 2being ‘largely devoid of the kind of wonder and storytelling that hooked us the first time.’ ‘A lot of Revolutions, in fact, is naggingly opaque,’ claimed Rene Rodriguez in the Miami Herald. It is a very disappointing ending to the trilogy. it doesn’t have any good action, it’s too emotional and explains absolutely nothing. Matrix Revolutions makes no sense whatsoever. This comments is typical of many posted on one of the thousands of web pages devoted to these films: 1 ![]() Fans who spent those years wrestling with the big questions from The Matrix only to find that Reloaded raised even more, were sometimes disappointed that few answers were apparently forthcoming in The Matrix Revolutions. Initial response to the concluding film of the Matrix trilogy was also negative. For the Wachowskis, perhaps, worse was still to come. ![]() But Reloaded was the middle instalment of a trilogy after all – it’s easy for it to be the poor relation with neither opening fanfare nor grand finale. But once The Matrix Reloaded came out, the reviews weren’t exactly breathless with excitement. Four years of anxious waiting for the continuation of this extraordinary story. Four years to ponder over the questions which The Matrix raised, to discuss significance, argue over meanings and debate possible outcomes. We had four years to watch and rewatch The Matrix, even getting to the point of stepping through sections frame by frame to study the detail. ![]()
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