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Tuesday, November 11th, 2003It seems to be de rigeur for blogers to write a Matrix 3 (or revolution or whatever stupid name it had) review, so here’s my feelings:
Matrix 3 was by far the best matrix yet. I make my judgement based on the one thing that made the matrix movies worth watching; the action. The first matrix was overratted, the plot line was cliched, (dude, what if we were just part of a computer program? whoa), and the fight scenes were too short and stuck between some of the most pretentious dialogue ever put on the big screen (the major flaw of all the matrix movies). It’s hilarious to see people over 13 discussing the “Philosophy” of the matrix.* But when there was action it rocked, a perfect combination of chinese wire-fu and hollywood special effects.
The second movie was the the worst of the series but it wasn’t as bad as most people said. It actually introduced some intersting plot points like rogue prorams and smith as an independant actor, and of course had the dope car chase. I watched it on DVD while eating lunch so i didn’t really pay to much attention any way.
Now the thrid movie had even bigger plot holes than the first two, like why did zion need morpheus et al to come back and deliver the EMP? Why dosn’t Zion have it’s own EMPs? What happened t all the other ships? What the hell are neo’s and Smiths powers and how are they relatied? What does Smith want anyway?
But two words make none of that matter: Giant Robots.
Those robots battle suits were sweet. They moved like gorrrilas. They had big guns and held them “bus a cap in your ass” style. ‘nough said.
Smith is also a pretty kick ass villian, I wanted him to win. I wish more of the movie had delt with him. The final fight between smith and neo was good, nice and long. I wish they had gone more dragon ball Z style with it, having little pieces of earth floating up while they charged up their energy and having them shooting fireballs at each other and teleporting around (like in then opening sequence of X-men 2 whith night crawler, best action sequence of the year), but all the effects they did with the rain were sweet, some of the most creartive stuff I’ve seen in a while.
That’s about it, there is definitly going t be a thrid movie, as the ending was absurdly open ended for th.e ending of a trilogy. My advice for the next matrix:
1. make neo bad, i.e. make him a cyborg who has gained control of the machines and is gonna kill all the humans cause of revenge for trinity or some bullshit.
2. More giant robots, at least 3/4 the movie.
3. the other 1/4 should be kung fu, find an excuse to get jet li in there.
4. No talking. Lawernce fishburne should be shot the second he opens his mouth, goddamn is he annoying.
5. More of her.
*i did like the buddhist reference at the end o the film, when the machine that is taking Neo away, turns into the lotus(?) flower that the enlightened buddha sits on.
