Just got back from the theatre. I am glad that I had dinner at home and was able to see a matinee, as it saved me some money and I feel "somewhat" less cheated. I want to use the term, "total garbage", but I hope to one day at least "tolerate" this film on some level, so I can enjoy the whole series.
Now before you think, "oh here we go another fanboy ripping apart the Matrix", I'm one of the few that enjoyed Reloaded. Granted, it wasn't perfect or as good as the first one. But it has a huge rewatchablility factor and great scenes with some great dialogue (I enjoy the psycho babble, although it did go on and on).
Well in Revolutions, there is no dialogue, no kung fu fighting, heck Neo is hardly in the movie and Morpheus is reduced to a 2 bit sidekick. 3/4 of the 2+ hours are people talking in a ship, flying a ship or shooting at 250,000 Sentinels. Now the Sentinels part sounds cool, but it's actually some of the most boring 45 minutes of film I've ever seen. Why? There is no point in caring, they are never ending, along with the bullets. You completely forget that Neo is actually someone else in the movie as you have to endure 2 women going around trying to blow up another machine. I actually rooted for the death of her just so they would get her out of the movie.
Merovigian is there for 2 minutes, Monica Belluci has 1 line and they focused too much effort on her great chest than anything worthwhile for her.
Morpheus, Trinity & Sephiroth(sp) don't even have a fight scene. There's a short gun battle they have together.
People complained there was too much action in the last movie. This movie has ZERO fighting, it's all Sentinel nonsense and a boring as heck Neo/Smith battle at the end. But by that point you don't even care, it's so anticlimactic.
The ending was clever and I liked it (the ending, not the movie), but again, I was already at the point of being over it and not caring, that any effect was lost.
Hopefully when the DVD box set is released next year I will able to watch the film without any negative emotion. But that is what this film is all about, getting emotionally involved in the story and characters. Obviously if you didn't care that much about this set of movies you might come out thinking it was "ok" or "boring" but not "hating it". Case in point, my wife, isn't a Matrix fan, but goes to see all the movies with me. She doesn't have anything invested in this movie, so the letdown and nitpickiness isn't there.
To each their own, I just needed to VENT in a big way!!!!!!
Now before you think, "oh here we go another fanboy ripping apart the Matrix", I'm one of the few that enjoyed Reloaded. Granted, it wasn't perfect or as good as the first one. But it has a huge rewatchablility factor and great scenes with some great dialogue (I enjoy the psycho babble, although it did go on and on).
Well in Revolutions, there is no dialogue, no kung fu fighting, heck Neo is hardly in the movie and Morpheus is reduced to a 2 bit sidekick. 3/4 of the 2+ hours are people talking in a ship, flying a ship or shooting at 250,000 Sentinels. Now the Sentinels part sounds cool, but it's actually some of the most boring 45 minutes of film I've ever seen. Why? There is no point in caring, they are never ending, along with the bullets. You completely forget that Neo is actually someone else in the movie as you have to endure 2 women going around trying to blow up another machine. I actually rooted for the death of her just so they would get her out of the movie.
Merovigian is there for 2 minutes, Monica Belluci has 1 line and they focused too much effort on her great chest than anything worthwhile for her.
Morpheus, Trinity & Sephiroth(sp) don't even have a fight scene. There's a short gun battle they have together.
People complained there was too much action in the last movie. This movie has ZERO fighting, it's all Sentinel nonsense and a boring as heck Neo/Smith battle at the end. But by that point you don't even care, it's so anticlimactic.
The ending was clever and I liked it (the ending, not the movie), but again, I was already at the point of being over it and not caring, that any effect was lost.
Hopefully when the DVD box set is released next year I will able to watch the film without any negative emotion. But that is what this film is all about, getting emotionally involved in the story and characters. Obviously if you didn't care that much about this set of movies you might come out thinking it was "ok" or "boring" but not "hating it". Case in point, my wife, isn't a Matrix fan, but goes to see all the movies with me. She doesn't have anything invested in this movie, so the letdown and nitpickiness isn't there.
To each their own, I just needed to VENT in a big way!!!!!!
