![]() ![]() 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 2 being ‘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. Do you believe you’re fighting for something – for more than your survival? Can you tell me what it is? Do you even know? Is it freedom or truth? Perhaps peace? Could it be for love?
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