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Message: <blockquote data-quote="demiurge1138" data-source="post: 1501931" data-attributes="member: 7451">I enjoyed the Matrix sequels to a certain extent. Not as much as the first movie, but they were entertaining. The primary problem with them, however, is that the Brothers didn't do enough to make them two good movies- we end up with two OK movies that could have been one that was as good as the first.My biggest problem with Matrix: Revolutions is the battle between the Sentinels and the defenders of Zion. Sure, it looks cool. But we don't really care about these characters. The only one we've seen in a human situation is the kid, and even then most of his character development is in the Animatrix. OK, there is the Link and Zee romance thing, but that's so briefly glossed over in Reloaded that we've half forgotten it by the time Revolutions came out. If we cared about Mifune, if we really got more of Link and Zee's love, and if we knew why, exactly, Niobe and Morpheus were racing the squiddies (I've only seen the movie once, so I might have missed that), the same scenes would have been more powerful.The best parts of Revolutions are the bits taking place in the Matrix itself. Hugo Weaving is still a god among character actors, and the multi-Smith it nice and atmospheric, even if they don't use the swarm tactics from Reloaded. The Oracle's pronouncements actually have some clear meaning this time around, but overall Revolutions suffers from the same problem Reloaded did: pop philosophy.The first Matrix brought up, in Hollywood style, the age-old questions about the nature of reality. The philosophy was fairly clear, and the exposition was necessary; after all, Neo just escaped from his pod. But now Neo's the Messiah (even though he acts more like Norton Antivirus). Why hasn't this been explained to him? Why does it need to be explained to him? Just so the Brothers can feel hip and eat up screentime with dialouge in order to compensate for expensive fight sequences.But why not spend that screentime on character development? Harder to write. The Brother's laziness in scripting sabotages the films, making them empty excercises in pretention and wire-fu instead of truly fulfilling movies.OK, maybe that was a little harsher than I intended. There were a lot of bits in the Matrix sequels I liked. But there were a lot of bits I didn't. And my final verdict is eh. They're OK. Nothing too special.Demiurge out.</blockquote>

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