The Matrix was brilliant. The Matrix Reloaded was average. Now the highly anticipated conclusion to the series is upon us. Can it compare to the first one? Is it better than the average second outing? Here�s the verdict...
It started off well this film did, much better than the previous one, and had a brilliant action set-piece in a fetish club - the best since the first film seeing as how the second installments action scenes were, well, over the top crap. However, after that scene, there wasn�t another piece of action for a while. Just ramblings-on about prophecies and other rubbish like that - not the filler I wanted between fight scenes. Then towards the later stages of the film, the action started again, with robots and the sort, but damn, the one I had been looking forward to, the Agent Smith fight scene, was very disappointing.
Totally devoid of the manic action from the burly brawl in Reloaded, this fight seemed boring, and bar one cool slow-mo shot of Smith getting punched in the face, the rest was full of the stuff I have come to hate with Matrix films. That my friends is CGI. It couldn�t be more apparent, the first film at least retained a sense of realism if you will, not flying everywhere. Another fault (yes another... ) is the ending, which I won't reveal, but the god awful dialogue and soppiness is abhorrent. You will laugh at Agent Smith and Neo who deliver their lines terribly.
So, any good things you may ask? Yeah sure, the fetish shoot-out was great, some of the camera work is neat, very clean and sophisticated, and at least it answers the questions raised in Reloaded. But you can�t help but get the sense it could�ve been better. Too many characters, too little action, too much philosophy, and in the end you didn�t come for that did you? So in other words this film is not the best you will see this year, it IS the worst in the series and it makes you think why the hell the Wachowski�s bothered doing the last two films, seeing as the first was untoppable. If you liked the first don�t see this. If you liked all of the ones before and you are a fan, see it, but with caution. If you are an insomniac see this, it�s the only cure. |
