Thursday, November 06, 2003
The Matrix: Revolutions ... Sucks
Despite the fairly mediocre Matrix: Reloaded earlier in the year, I had high hopes that Revolutions would wrap the trilogy with style, grace and leather. Well, it did have leather. Other than that, it had CGI people hitting, bashing and blowing up other CGI. A lot. The NY Times is perhaps a bit more generous:
Despite the fairly mediocre Matrix: Reloaded earlier in the year, I had high hopes that Revolutions would wrap the trilogy with style, grace and leather. Well, it did have leather. Other than that, it had CGI people hitting, bashing and blowing up other CGI. A lot. The NY Times is perhaps a bit more generous:
Still it would be unfair to the Wachowskis, special-effects virtuosos that they are, to say that their trilogy ends with a whimper. There is plenty of bright light and big noise in "Revolutions" ? a ferocious machine assault on battered Zion, a rain-swept showdown between Neo and his nemesis Smith (Hugo Weaving), a giant talking Wizard of Oz head. Some major characters meet gruesome deaths, while others endure heroically. But all this bombast, which may raise an honest goose bump or two, cannot dispel the overall atmosphere of exhaustion.Exhaustion is right ... every actor looks like they've been worked too hard and couldn't give a crap about the fate of Zion. Those people battling CGI overact since they've no clue what their enemies would look like, and the ending is so fairy-tyle meets the Bible cliched that even a big free bucket of the Architect's best KFC wouldn't get you interested. Most disappointing. (I'll write more in a week or so, when it won't be so spoilerish...).
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