The Matrix Revolutions (2003)

The Matrix Revolutions: Directed by Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski. With Mary Alice, Tanveer K. Atwal, Helmut Bakaitis, Kate Beahan. The human city of Zion defends itself against the massive invasion of the machines as Neo fights to end the war at another front while also opposing the rogue Agent Smith.

“It is hard to believe that the original Matrixu0026#39;s philosophical subtlety came from the same authors of the two sequels.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eIt seems the brothers must have cribbed the original story for the first Matrix, since the last 2 show none of the originalu0026#39;s subtlety or interest, just rehashing and CGI multiplication.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eOne evil robot, two evil robots, many many evil robots. Wow, what an idea, what creativity!u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eViewing the behind-the-scenes on DVD disc 2, you can see the reasons for the incoherence of story and scenes – the huge fractured design team, numerous u0026#39;senior thisu0026#39; u0026#39;senior thatu0026#39;, all contributing to some corporate creation lacking any inspiration. Maybe the corporate cube-farm culture works for making cars, but it doesnu0026#39;t seem to work for films.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eI would have liked to have seen another level of reality exposed behind the mindless machines, and why are they so mindlessly evil when they can think up such a subtle ruse to enslave the humans? It isnu0026#39;t consistent. Why not introduce an alien ET culture who is really the master culture enslaving the machine culture by some similar hallucinatory ruse. Or, have the humans escape by transcending their bodies, as in all the traditional gnostic spiritualities.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eAll in all, the Matrix is just a retread of the movie TRON. TRON at least had some insight into what the machine mindset and motivation for domination might be, e.g. tyrannical game addiction, much like the decadent Roman emperors. The Matrix, after the first film, gives no thought to any subtle motivations of the machine culture, preferring the tired cliché of u0026#39;alien villain = mindless unrelenting violenceu0026#39;.”