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Message: <blockquote data-quote="milotha" data-source="post: 1499758" data-attributes="member: 17122">I loved the first film.  I was OK with the second film.  I was willing to see where the story would go.  They had some interesting ideas and sub plots that they had hinted at.  The third film destroyed the whole series to me.  WhY?My summary of the movie.Let's have some pointless opening train station scene.  It will take up a good portion of the movie and allow the brothers to get their latex/bondage fest desires on the screen.  Let's face it.  It was just an excuse to have people wearing tight latex.  The whole train station scene did nothing.  Yeah there were some neat ideas about the programs, but lets not use any of them in the rest of the movie.  Oh, and let's have some pointless little girl that does nothing to further the plot.  But it will seem deep.The big fight scene between Neo and Agent Smith.  Besides being the token MATRIX scene, we didn't care.  There was no tension.  It was just FX.  This is the classic case of the GM not realizing that the Agent Smith encounter is no longer challenging.  Hello, Neo had leveled, bring on a new encounter.They took the main characters from the first movie, and threw them by the wayside.  The threw out the MATRIX.  Let's reduce a really cool character - Morpheus - to being a passenger with a few comments.  Not much else.  No character growth.  Hey, he had started taking on agents in the last movie.  This one.  Passenger in a ship.Trinity.  Most pointless death.  I felt absolutely nothing during her death scene.  She did alsmot nothing too, except help kill Agent Smith in the real world.  Her death didn't further the story.  Why did she even go along at the end?Neo.  Did he save humanity?  No!  Almost everyone was still enslaved.  Where was the promise at the end of the first movie to wake everyone up?  If you were going to go to god like powers why not completely rip dune of and say he is the messiah and the clouds part and it rains and the machines return to solar power and free the humans and Arakis is free.  Wait that was Dune, wrong movie.I didn't buy the ending for one minute.  Why were the machines honorable.  Why didn't they just wipe out humanity after Neo took out Agent Smith.  All Neo did was create Agent Smith and then kill him.  I didn't even get the feeling that the free humans were inspired by Neo.It was just apparent that they needed to take a break between the second and thrid film and actually get a script before production.  Or maybe the first on was a fluke.I could go on, but I'm ending it here.</blockquote>

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