Otherwise, don't watch Revolutions unless you need EXTREME closure with The Matrix trilogy. Watch it once, get it over with. Like ripping off a bandaid really fast. See, the prophecy about Neo is about to come to pass, and the real world of Zion is in danger, because... of the robots... and other stuff is happening that is VERY important because of the harrowing way in which the characters talk about them. Personally? I wasn't much for the plot. Mostly because it tried very hard to make itself difficult to understand. And succeeded.
The acting and dialogue were monotone and boring. Characters with personalities? You won't find them here. The fight scenes were unnecessarily long and show-off-y. The ending raised more questions than it answered. In short, it was just badness all around.
The Wachowski Bros. do have a lot of talent, I believe, but they just need to hire people to, you know, tell them that their screenplays are ass. And then they need to hire people to rewrite em. If ego-reduction had happened, we might have had a much better Matrix conclusion.
But pretentious storytelling aside, there is some merit here. The SFX, as substancial and unnecessary as they are, are very well done. The robot octopus monster thingies moved with a certain grace, agility, and menace. It's just the fact that the scenes with them lasted forty-five hours made them lose a bit of their impact. The final fight between Neo and Agent Smith is similar, in that it's technically well done but it just goes on TOO. DAMN. LONG.
And that's Revolutions' major problem. It's length. There are too many long, pointless scenes that don't end when you want them to. The pacing is unbearably slow. Like, the whole thing with Neo and the subway and the little girl and the parents. Why? Why was that there? Why was that necessary, and why did we, the audience, have to watch it? Could the information conveyed in that scene at least be told in an interesting, entertaining manner? Could that scene not have been some sort of uppity musical number, with dancing coconuts and the like? CAN WE TURN THE DULLNESS DOWN JUST A LITTLE BIT?
I also had a problem with the recasting of The Oracle. I do understand the circumstances behind the recasting, but Mary Alice, who assumed the role previously played by Gloria Foster, was... not good. I first saw her as The Oracle in the videogame monstrosity "Enter The Matrix", and she wasn't good there, either. Where Foster was motherly, warm, interesting and cuddly, Alice was dull, flat, unexciting, and cold. Hey, much like this movie! That's some nice irony.
The ending I also had problems with. There was too much stuff that seemed to happen just for the sake of being shocking, and a lot of stuff went unexplained, which is a big-no-no considering that this was the big no-holds-barred all-consuming finale of a blockbuster movie trilogy.
So to end this review in a way to similar to the bewildering nonsense of an ending of the movie, I present you with the adventures of TwoTusk and DuckBill:
