The Matrix Revolutions
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Don DavisCast:
Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving, Ian Bliss, Collin Chou, Lachy Hulme, Nathaniel Lees, Harry Lennix, Robyn Nevin, David Roberts (more)VOD (5)
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The Revolution is now: The Matrix Revolutions. Neo. Morpheus. Trinity. They and other heroes stand on the brink of victory or annihilation in the epic war against the machines in the stunning final chapter of The Matrix trilogy. For Neo, that means going where no human has ever dared - into the heart of Machine City and into a cataclysmic showdown with the exponentially more powerful renegade program Smith. For The Wachowskis and producer Joel Silver, that means soaring beyond the amazing visual inventivness of the first two films. (Warner Bros. Home Entertainment)
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“Hey Larry, Joel Silver was here.” - “Yeah? And what did the old bastard want?" - “He said he had a lot of money for us if we wanted to shoot another two parts.” - “That’s great, bro! Let’s put something together, then. We have loads of ideas, we can put them all together and something will come out of it.” - “Cool. So, here we put this, and we put this here, here we drop that long dialogue scene, it’s just verbal filler, but who cares, they’ll survive. And, bro, it’s ten minutes long, and you know, ten minutes here, ten minutes there, and we have four hours, two hole films!” - “Yeah, you’re right. And here we could squeeze some sequence inspired by anime, the Japanese love that and they’re the second biggest movie market in the world. We can’t go wrong.” - “Yeah, and some love-story, too.” - “Hey, Andy, those heroic moments wouldn’t hurt and...” Enough with the snark, now I'm going to be dead serious, I'm going to be as serious as the heroes of the Matrix; so serious and lofty that in the wonder of their own loftiness they sound, in the words of Amadeus, as if they shit marble… One way to grasp the Matrix is to search and search for meaning, search for the key to the truth. But it's a bit like dropping the key to my place into a puddle, I’d have to find it because otherwise I wouldn't be able to get into my apartment, but truth be told, digging in a puddle is not very "interesting" fun. Just as much as digging through a pile of verbal ballast and suffering through seriously meant pathetic dialogues that lack a shred of insight. I would so much like to search and find the meaning, but the Wachowskis won't let me because of the form of their narrative. And yet The Matrix Revolutions could have been a great movie. The scene from the subway station, from the "intermediate section", was funny and awesome. Likewise, the ending itself, I'm not afraid to say, was breathtaking! But everything in between? Awful! Pathetic battle scenes cut from the Soviet film Liberation. The Wachowskis proved that I remembered my childhood years, when I went to see shitty Soviet war films for free that were full of pathos of the coarsest grain. “How old are you, kid?” - “Eighteen.” - “Should have said sixteen, I might have believed that.” - “All right, I'm sixteen.” - “The minimum age for the Corp's eighteen. Sixteen's too young.” - “The machines don't care how old I am. They'll kill me just the same.”... This is not a sample from a Soviet war movie, but from this film. The American kid wanted to fight and he accomplished a great thing. No, really some patterns don't change even after fifty years and it doesn't matter the country of origin. But despite these excesses, The Matrix Revolutions is not a stupid movie, although some of the interpretations are ridiculous. For example, the shape-shifting of the Oracle is explained by Matrix advocates as a Merovingian punishment, but the reality is much more prosaic. Gloria Foster, the actress who played the Oracle, died during the filming, so the Wachowskis helped themselves to this pathetic ruse. I have nothing against the concept of the Matrix, but the form, my friends, the form…
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Cut Reloaded and glue it together with the best of Revolutions and behold: that would be a film! Yet, after an unbalanced and melted intermediate link, Revolutions is a brisk spectacle that benefits from the chatter of Reloaded (there's no need to think about anything deeply anymore) and the visual mastery that The Matrix is famous for. It’s nice to look at, and the ending is really riveting, as is the message of the whole story. Plus it has a great soundtrack. I love this trilogy because it is not only "one", "two", etc., but is really a conceptual work that, as a whole, creates a huge potential universe that can be further populated. In addition, it allows you to engage your brain and create your own intertextual "matrix" with classics of world philosophy and literature. It may lead to exaggerated constructs, but thank God the "mass" story places such high demands on the viewer at all...
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Rating the entire trilogy. Like in Reloaded, there are moments that really pissed me off, but as a whole it’s amazing, and the climax, when white is reunited with black, can’t be described other than superb, unexpected (though actually inevitable) and incredibly deep… PS: In the great order of things, the Battle of Sion is just eye candy, but that doesn’t alter the fact that it made my jaw drop.
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Revolutions, while retaining most of the ills of the second installment, quite adeptly reduces their intensity. The digital sequences now primarily involve clashes of dirty metal, which is easier to animate and thus doesn't take away from the intensity of the Battle of Zion with mangled CGI. Plus the exoskeletons are really cool. The dialogue here is aware that we're about to close up shop, so it's finally going somewhere. Oh, and the Zion Respect Festival scenes are thankfully pretty strictly limited to war sequences in industrial dock settings. But why five stars? In Revolutions, The Matrix has finally managed to conclude a truly ultimate cyberpunk masterpiece (or rather, esocyberpunk masterpiece) and has stopped dodging the fact that the only options are that reality is nothing or that reality is everything. Codes are reformatted into atoms, minds create matter, all as a result of electrical connections between neural systems. It's all about electricity. The Matrix is actually a bit of an anti-humanist series, telling us how humanity's only goal is to destroy the machines, while the machines' main goal is to adapt to humanity, which makes them undergo more than just one problem, including fatal ones.
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There are fewer stupid dialogues and more proper adrenaline action with a drive that will plaster the viewer to their seats. The Battle for Zion is brilliantly shot, the greenish camera filters and the typical visual style of the Wachowskis are not missing. Don Davis does a flawless job and composes his best musical score. It is difficult to compare Revolutions any deeper with the previous parts, which only served as a support for the final installment. The biggest, the most monstrous and the most ambitious of the entire trilogy. A grand finale as it should be.
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