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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Villano" data-source="post: 1499236" data-attributes="member: 505">I just saw Revolutions last week.  I actually found myself liking it better than Reloaded.  That said, I still hated it.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Reloaded and Revolutions are two examples of sequels that should never have been made.  It's what happens when the studio pulls up with a dump truck full of money and says, "The first one did great business, do two more!"  Reloaded is the perfect example of a middle chapter and everything that can be wrong with it.  You need to have seen The Matrix to know what's going on and there's no ending.  On top of that, there were only 3 facts that were established:  [Spoiler]Smith can replicate, that both Neo and Smith could affect the real world, and the Architect revealed the "true story" behind being the One.[/Spoiler]    After Revolutions came out, I read a review that stated that everything in Reloaded could have been summed up in the first 5 minutes of this film.  I would go quite that far, but it could have been condensed into the first 1/2 hour, especially when you consider the 3rd of the 3 things I mentioned above could be completely ignored since they aren't brought up again (unless you count the 2 second cameo at the end).And it certainly wouldn't be much of a chore to cut 1/2 hour out of Revolutions.  As TracerBullet42 pointed out, there's no shortage of endless shooting and characters we've never seen before getting killed that could be trimmed.  Add to that the train station scenes and anything involving the Frenchman (the only readon he existed was to get Neo out of the station), and you have half the film gone.Honestly, if they had just made a single sequel, the results, while nowhere near the level of the original, wouldn't have been half bad.  As it stand, you have two films composed of 90% filler material.  It's almost like watching those old B-movies that were padded with stock footage.  Anyway, there's a good review here <a href="http://www.fakes.net/matrixrevolutions.htm" target="_blank">http://www.fakes.net/matrixrevolutions.htm</a> putting the films in perspective at the box office.EDIT:  Chart didn't paste correctly.  Tried to make it (slightly) more readable.</blockquote>

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