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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zappo" data-source="post: 1212819" data-attributes="member: 633">The movie was spectacular, there is no doubt about it. The scenery was great, and the special effects were tasteful.  Much like Reloaded, though, its merits end there as far as I'm concerned... the plot of the first Matrix had originality and a certain intelligence, even if it was plagues by some gaping plot holes (why humans and not cows?). The original Matrix also had several good one-liners that I can throw into a conversation for a quick laugh.  The second and third movie maintain the high quality action and effects, and worsen all the rest. The dialogue is pompose, not witty: lots of talking in circles and self-referencing, but little actual information. The acting is generally bad (I half-joked that they had to cover Keanu Reeves' eyes so that he could put up a decent performance in the scene where [spoiler]Trinity dies[/spoiler]).  The worst job of all is done with the plot, though. Neither Reloaded nor Revolutions do anything to plug the problems of the original Matrix - in fact, they create even larger holes. I don't care about the shirts of the people in Zion; I could even tolerate them not knowing how to replicate the technology they used. But the fact is that the entire trilogy hings on absurdities and contradictions. [spoiler]How is it possible that their most powerful weapon, the EMP, is not ready for use at all times in Zion? Why did the agents want the access codes to Zion's mainframe in the first movie? Why do 5 sentinels almost destroy the ship in the first movie, when a horde of them can't even stop one in Revolutions? How is Neo's connection to the machines maintained without any kind of transmitting hardware? Why would such a connection allow him to remotely blow them up? Why does he have to fight Seraph in Reloaded and not in any of the other two? Why humans and not cows? How could the operator overseeing Bane before he got assimilated not notice that something strange was happening? What's the whole point, seeing that the situation at the end of Revolutions is almost exactly the same one as it is at the beginning of The Matrix? Even the peace won't last long, since the videogame set after the third movie will have to have some kind of conflict. Why would the machines even bother to use sentinels to destroy Zion when a nuke would be more reliable and faster? Especially considering that the humans could have won that battle easily even without the need for Neo, if only they had the freakin' EMP. So what if it disables the other defenses, seeing how effective it is, you don't need any other defense. How did the Oracle's precognition work? Where were the twins when the Merovingian needed them?[/spoiler]And that's just the stuff I can think off the top of my head. Naturally, I could invent several justifications for all of that, but that's not the point. Whatever excuse I can invent, it wasn't in the movie, and leaving explanations out is something you can only do for obvious or irrelevant issues, not for stuff that is the basis of the plot.  I have a very high tolerance for inconsistencies in sci-fi/action flicks, but with these last two Matrix episodes I am finding troubles holding up my suspension of disbelief, heavily attacked every five minutes or so. Good thing the scenery and effects are spectacular enough to distract me.  Overall, among "mindless action/scifi" movies (a genre I love, btw) I rank it at 8/10, but among intellectual/sci-fi, well, I think it hardly qualifies.</blockquote>

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