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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Velenne" data-source="post: 1210487" data-attributes="member: 1856">Short, Spoiler-free Review:I agree with Kai in that it was much better than the 2nd movie.  It explained enough, left enough unsaid, and generally didn't treat you like you were too stupid to have understood the first two movies.  HOWEVER, I thought Revolutions felt much more like a typical action movie than does the series justice.  The characters just felt more...stale?  Trite?  The acting a bit stiffer perhaps?  On occasion, some of them even seemed to break character but perhaps they were experiencing paradigm shifts of one degree or another.  Ultimately, the movie lacked the "Whoa" of the first movie but made up for the the "Huh?" or "WHY?" of the second.  Longer Spoiler/DiscussionAgain, I agree with Kai on the movie's kickoff.  The whole Trainman thing could have been scrapped.  It seemed a contrivance to allow two things to happen (to use the Matrix vernacular): allow Neo to appreciate that machines have feelings too (aww...), and capitalize on the absolute entertainment that was the Merovingean from Reloaded.  Great character!  But much as I love him, the whole scenario left a bad taste in my mouth.  Could have been done another way.The middle of the movie makes up for it in spades, though.  All the character buildup from the 2nd movie takes on meaning and I found myself attached to the imperiled humans of Zion.  Yes the Niobe-pilots-through-the-Death-Star scene was also a bit stretched, but it was still entertaining.  "Damn she's got a fat ass". <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />Neo and Trinity's flight felt a little like the sojourn of Jodie Foster in "Contact".  Violent, then surreal, then awakening.  The machine city was excellent.  The face appearing was a little cheesy but perhaps that's what the W. Bros were going for at that point.My theory on the death of Agent Smith is this (prepare yourself):  The Oracle in the original movie told Neo he wasn't The One.  He was waiting on something.  When Neo destroys Smith in that movie, we get to see him as Matrix code and he is now yellow instead of green.  He is now The One.In the second movie, Neo sees Seraph in Matrix code as yellow and identifies him as a program.  Curious?  Smith reappears and explains to Neo that whenever he was destroyed, there was some kind "merging"- some change that occured.  I think that essentially there was a blending of the two.  Neo never destroys any other program in the way he did Smith, (although Smith certainly aquires a taste for it).  Essentially, Neo is now part-human, part-program.  This is why he is able to feel the Sentinels outside the Matrix.  That was his "gift" from Agent Smith.Smith, now a sort of virus/worm, is infecting the Matrix, sending it out of control in a way the machines cannot stop without Neo.  Why? ...When Smith copies a person, specifically another program, he seems to aquire a bit of their code.  This is how he was able to see the future after copying over the Oracle.  When Smith copies over Neo, it's the same as when he copied over Bane.  When he woke up, he'd be in Neo-skin.  More importantly, he gains Neo's sentience of machines which is how he sees his death/deletion coming.  The "Master Program", sensing its newfound connection to all Smiths, proceeded to delete all the copies from there since it was hard-wired into the real-world Neo.  Whew!  Thoughts?</blockquote>

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