Metascore
47 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 41 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 41
  2. Negative: 7 out of 41
  1. 38
    This (hopefully) final chapter's interminable first hour...showcases some of the clunkiest dialogue and wooden acting since the most recent "Star Wars" movies.
  2. Reviewed by: Mike Clark
    38
    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.
  3. 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."
  4. The film is a soggy mess, essentially a loud, wild 100-minute battle movie bookended by an incomprehensible beginning and a laughable ending.
  5. The Wachowski brothers have rendered their chronicles into banality, as if trying to imitate the qualitative tailspin of the "Star Wars" series.
  6. Reviewed by: Carla Meyer
    25
    Dismal final installment.
  7. Smith is only a rogue computer program, but this morbidly dispiriting movie makes him sound like a prophet.
User Score

Mixed or average reviews- based on 382 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Negative: 79 out of 231
  1. Should never have been made.

    The original was really fun, but all that cam after are crap... just plain crap.

    What else can you say.... watc
    h The Matrix, forget the rest! Full Review »
  2. This review contains spoilers, click full review link to view. This movie was so incredible amazing. Doesn't matter if we're hapless within the history for long time of the movies and movies, it's the best final of a trilogy Full Review »
  3. A massive letdown, the movie was nothing which made the original such an amazing experience. The final showdown between smith and neo was probably the best part, and it still didn't live up to the originals great fight scenes. Full Review »