The Matrix Revolutions

2003 | USA | R | cinesia : 15

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DIRECTOR : Andy & Larry Wachowski

CAST : Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, Laurence Fishburne, Monica Belluci, Lambert Wilson, Jada Pinkett Smith, Hugo Weaving ...

WRITER : Andy & Larry Wachowski

PRODUCER : Joel Silver, Grant Hill

COMPOSER : Don Davis

STUDIO : Warner Bros.

DISTRIBUTOR : Warner Bros.

RUNTIME : 2 hours 9 minutes

LANGUAGE : English, French

GENRE : Action / Thriller / Sci-Fi

CINESIA GENRE : Cult Movie

USA

November 5, 2003

Switzerland

November 5, 2003

Everything that has a beginning has an end.

In "The Matrix Revolutions," the final chapter in the "Matrix" trilogy, the rebels' long quest for freedom culminates in a final explosive battle. As the Machine Army wages devastation on Zion, its citizens mount an aggressive defense -- but can they stave off the relentless swarm of Sentinels long enough for Neo to harness the full extent of his powers and end the war?

Matrix Revolutions is the first film in the cinema history to be released at exactly the same time everywhere in the world within about a minute. In consequence, the movie will be released on November 5 at 6h00 am in Los Angeles, at 9h00 am in New York, 3 pm in Switzerland and at 11 pm in Tokyo. Well that's a first!

There will be no Matrix 4. "The story the Wachowskis wanted to tell ends at the end of Revolutions."

The producer Joel Silver says that one of the key scenes is a 14-minute, $40 million battle scene that is the most complicated sequence ever put on film."

Fred's review

posted on
July 27, 2005

Where is the Matrix?

It’s a cloud of deception that hangs over our head while we’re walking out of the theatre. What was meant to crown the first two episodes (although the last two have to be considered as only one film) reveals itself to be a total waste of what was built until then. No more stunts, camera movements, great acrobatic feats between the bullets or weird script ideas always possible in an environment like the Matrix. In that ultimate part, it’s only about a big great battle, THE final battle against the machines. The two thirds of the film are given over to it and the rest is not more interesting.
Instead of something that could have been a studied mixed between the real world and the Matrix, where every action in one of the two worlds has its repercussion in the other, they deliver a banal linear story and without a real conclusion, not emphasizing the extraordinary universe that the Wachowski brothers have so well created. It makes you wonder if those two brothers didn’t delegate their work to another director who didn’t understand the interest of the film, great responsible of the success of the two first opuses.
As the icing on this poisoned cake: the silly action movie dialogues of an unusual flatness finishing off not only the movie, but soiling the trilogy image itself.
Even so, go see the movie just to be sure of it; or at least for the exhilaration of the conclusion constituting the only good reason to see « The Matrix Revolutions ».

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Pascal's review

posted on
October 22, 2005

We expected nothing less than that, from the last part of the trilogy

The Special effects are sumptuous, the rythm is constant, in other words : there's everything needed in order to make a good Action-SciFi movie. The fighting scenes are so developped that they take up almost the whole movie : from the Zions siege to the combat between Neo and Agent Smith, there's barely enough time left for anything else. As much as the movie is pessimistic until the very end, in the atmosphere and in the very dark sets, as much as the end itself has a touch of optimism and detaches itself from the movie in its color theme. As for the scenario, nothing fantastic, only the exploitation of the initial topic, a little poor in this movie, but that doesn't change the movie's quality, neither visual nor emotionnal. So in short, a logical conclusion to the two first movies, without much surprises but also without real disappointment.

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