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Matrix Revolutions, The

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Matrix Revolutions, The reviews
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Movie Info

Genre(s): Action  |  Sci-fi  |  Suspense/Thriller

Written by: Andy Wachowski (also characters)
Larry Wachowski (also characters)

Directed by: Andy Wachowski
Larry Wachowski

Release Date:
Theatrical: November 5, 2003
DVD: April 6, 2004

Running Time: 129 minutes, Color

Origin: USA

Summary

RATING: R for sci-fi violence and brief sexual content

Starring Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Jada Pinkett Smith, Hugo Weaving, Monica Bellucci, Nona M. Gaye, and Harry J. Lennix

The final film in the Matrix trilogy.

What The Critics Said

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...

91

Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold

No, it doesn't exactly re-create the magic that made the original such an instant classic, but it's faster and more involving than "Reloaded" and it rounds off the premise and themes of the trilogy in a surprisingly satisfying way.

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80

Time Richard Corliss

The trilogy ascends and soars with the two combatants and ends not with a whimper but with a blast of light. Thus the fabulous original film has found an honorable way to sign off. For those who didn't bother to join the early crowds, The Matrix Revolutions is a definite might see.

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75

Boston Globe Ty Burr

Revolutions, the final installment in the trilogy, parcels things more neatly. You get 45 minutes of the Wachowskis' patented theosophical bong water, followed by an hour of the most muscular, hard-core special-effects rama-lama yet to hit the screen. Only then does Jesus show up.

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75

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

To the degree that I was able to put aside my questions, forget logic, disregard continuity problems and immerse myself in the moment, The Matrix Revolutions is a terrific action achievement. Andy and Larry Wachowski have concluded their trilogy with all barrels blazing.

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70

Film Threat Daniel Schweiger

A voyage that's worth taking in spite of itself to find out how the damn thing wraps up, but you can't help but feel resentful by the end of it.

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70

Newsweek David Ansen

Though they’re full of undeniably spectacular moments, great production values and unusual ambition, a simple thing has gotten lost in these sequels: they’re not much fun.

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70

Village Voice J. Hoberman

No less than the rankest demagogue, The Matrix Revolutions insists on the primacy of faith over knowledge. Once it locks and loads, however, the triumphant visuals short-circuit anything resembling abstract thought.

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67

Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov

It’s an impressive closing to the cycle, and, frankly, one that arrives not a moment too soon.

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63

ReelViews James Berardinelli

Represents a disappointing way for the science fiction trilogy to bow out. Overlong and underwhelming, The Matrix Revolutions reinforces the thinking that it’s a rare movie series in which the final chapter is the strongest.

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63

Premiere Glenn Kenny

On the plus side, there are these super-scary mechanical octopus-type things with a billion eyes and metal tentacles that fly in great awful swarms and look like the non-organic versions of the flying-brain-and-spinal-cord monsters that made the otherwise laughable '60s sci-fi flick "Fiend Without aFace" so cool.

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60

TV Guide Maitland McDonagh

It neither works as a stand-alone film nor captures the thrilling sense of somber, pulpy mystery that made "The Matrix" so compelling. Nevertheless, It brings the saga to a satisfying close, and relies less on the clumps of pop-mystical cyber gobbledy-gook that gummed up the gears of "Reloaded" and more on the powerful emotional bonds that bind Neo, Trinity, Morpheus, Niobe, Link and Zee.

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60

The New Yorker David Denby

At its best, the picture is violently exciting; at its worst, banal and monotonous. Yet the relative absence of mighty significances did not prevent the Matricians sitting all around me--mostly men aged about thirty--from remaining utterly still, as if at a High Mass, throughout the movie. [10 November 2003, p. 128]

60

The Hollywood Reporter Michael Rechtshaffen

Ending with neither a bang nor a whimper, the finale falls somewhere in between. It's an improvement over its concurrently shot, babbling predecessor, but it ultimately fails to capture any of that jaw-dropping sense of exhilaration that made the original such a must-see event.

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60

Dallas Observer Gregory Weinkauf

The result is visually slick, almost shockingly simpleminded, kinda redundant and only adequately satisfying. Alas, for their dramatic wrap-up the Wachowskis' storytelling now feels less intriguing than merely dutiful.

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60

Film Threat Clint Morris

Everything about the sequel feels bloated.

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60

Chicago Reader J.R. Jones

Shot at the same time as "The Matrix Reloaded," this last installment is the shortest of the bunch at 129 minutes, but I still succumbed to special-effects hypnosis in the last hour.

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60

Empire Alan Morrison

The Year Of The Matrix will be remembered as an indulgence for fans, while the original movie will be affectionately held as a separate entity by a bigger crowd, much as the original "Star Wars" trilogy hasn't really been tainted by divisions over Episodes I and II.

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58

Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum

Among its better tricks, Matrix Revolutions finally gets the love-story subplot of Neo and Trinity in the right proportion.

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50

Portland Oregonian Shawn Levy

Now The Matrix Revolutions is here, and a verdict is justified. The death penalty seems a little strong, but can we lock this franchise up and forget where we put the key?

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50

Salon.com Andrew O'Hehir

Isn't a terrible movie, but it is a tremendous disappointment.

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50

Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt

Written and directed by the clever Wachowski brothers, this is a sequel that only a die-hard fan could love. But those fans will love it very, very much.

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50

LA Weekly Scott Foundas

Nearly wall-to-wall climax -- an unwieldy, two-plus-hours third act of a movie, guided by the principle (incubated by "Reloaded" and fully grown here) that too much is never too much.

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50

Baltimore Sun Michael Sragow

The Matrix Revolutions blends feather-brained, starry-eyed camp and rock-'em-sock-'em spectacle -- so it's at least more entertaining than the second Matrix film, which hung in the air like a noxious cloud.

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50

Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez

It's a testament to the personalities of the actors, as well as the foundation laid by the original film, that we retain an emotional connection to the main players in Revolutions.

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50

Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea

There are, to be sure, some impressive special effects here, and whoever Warner Bros. hires to make the new Superman movie should take notes.

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50

Variety Todd McCarthy

You can virtually see the mystique peeling away while beholding the turgid melodrama, patchy plotting, windy dialogue and, yes, spectacular combat effects of this grand finale.

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50

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Liam Lacey

Mostly feels as hackneyed as the first film felt fresh. It's a loud, puffed-up exercise in computer-generated heroics and battles that follows a pattern.

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50

New York Daily News Jack Mathews

Unless you're seriously into the post-"Matrix" culture, which includes books, games, animation and interactive Web sites, or you believe the Wachowskis have a philosophy worth wading through, the two-part sequel adds nothing indispensable to the first story.

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50

Rolling Stone Peter Travers

At the risk of understatement, The Matrix Revolutions sucks.

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50

Chicago Tribune Mark Caro

Sets out to answer all sorts of cosmic questions, though the one most frequently asked is more mundane: Is it better than "Reloaded"? The answer is a matter of degree.

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50

Los Angeles Times Manohla Dargis

How did something that started out so cool get so dorky?

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40

The New York Times Dana Stevens

There is very little that is tantalizing or suspenseful. The feeling of revelation is gone, and many of the teasing implications of "Reloaded" have been abandoned.

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40

Slate David Edelstein

Revolutions isn't as stupefying as "Reloaded"--and, of course, our expectations have been drastically lowered. But it's an abysmal anticlimax all the same.

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40

New York Magazine Peter Rainer

This final installment jettisons most of the Zen mumbo-jumbo from the first two movies in favor of lots of very loud explosions. Since I didn’t take the mumbo-jumbo seriously to begin with, my letdown was minor, but aficionados may feel like they’ve been played for suckers.

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40

The Onion (A.V. Club) Keith Phipps

Once the dust clears, it's hard to think of a film saga that's wound down with such a profound anticlimax. It's a whimper in bang's clothing.

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38

Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman

Without a philosophical payoff, without characters whose relationships resonate in our hearts, without explanations for situations that beg for explanations, what are we left with? To quote another great writer of battle scenes: "a tale full of sound and fury, told by an idiot, signifying -- nothing."

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38

USA Today Mike Clark

This come-down of a series capper is so arch and pompous amid its clanks and collisions that you can only snicker at the verbal wind that obscures the din of marauding machinery.

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38

New York Post Lou Lumenick

This (hopefully) final chapter's interminable first hour...showcases some of the clunkiest dialogue and wooden acting since the most recent "Star Wars" movies.

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30

Washington Post Stephen Hunter

The film is a soggy mess, essentially a loud, wild 100-minute battle movie bookended by an incomprehensible beginning and a laughable ending.

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30

Washington Post Desson Thomson

The Wachowski brothers have rendered their chronicles into banality, as if trying to imitate the qualitative tailspin of the "Star Wars" series.

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25

San Francisco Chronicle Carla Meyer

Dismal final installment.

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20

Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern

Smith is only a rogue computer program, but this morbidly dispiriting movie makes him sound like a prophet.

What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this movie is 5.3 (out of 10) based on 279 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Michael R. gave it a4:
I was lost in this movie it hardly made any sense at all.There was a lot less action in this movie then the previous two.It was a terrible ending to what should have been one of the greatest trilogy movies of all time.

Rimogard B. gave it a10:
Very good movie. Solves a lot of questions from Reloaded, and makes you think. Action scenes are incredible and movie's rhythm is spectacular. The only problem is that people probably wanted more action in ''Matrix'' and less in the real world.

Joey K. gave it a1:
Horrible. Every question that had you excited at the end of the second movie is answered with a much stupider and entirely nonsensical question in this movie. The action in this movie was far, FAR worse than the previous films. It made no sense. The acting was lame. This movie actually made me hate the second one. Yes, it is so bad, that it made me like a different movie less. Because it took all the potential that Reloaded created, and muddled it all horribly in the hopes that the audience would be too distracted and confused to realize that the Wachowski brothers had absolutely no idea what to do after reloaded.

Jesn R. gave it a3:
They lost it! They had something so good to work with, and they give us this? After all the hype? Cool action though. That prevents it from getting 0. Darn you, Wachowski Brothers!

Tyris S. gave it a7:
The film leaves one important question unanswered. That question is "what the bloody hell just happened?" It's still enjoyable, though.

J B gave it a3:
It's sad when so many films with actual plots are relegated to the netherland of metacritic's red zone while this film is allowed to float free of the critical panning it deserved. This film is nothing more than an attempt to cover a lack of meaning with the trappings of a search for esoteric knowledge, all the while hoping to deaden its audience to the truth of its vapidity by inundating the senses with impressive special effects. The acting is bad too (primarily because they actors, unsure of what the hell they're saying, have no frame of reference for their lines).

Syed R. gave it a10:
this is the best movie i have ever seen and i dont know why it is underappreciated. dodging bullets martial arts bullet stoping.

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