On a technical level, I thought the movie
”
Matrix: Revolutions,
”
currently Playing at Premiere Cinemas was one of the best of the
year.
However, I found the plot in the two-hour and nine minute
release from Warner Brothers Studios to be unfulfilling and that it
fell far short of my personal expectations.
On a technical level, I thought the movie “Matrix: Revolutions,” currently Playing at Premiere Cinemas was one of the best of the year.
However, I found the plot in the two-hour and nine minute release from Warner Brothers Studios to be unfulfilling and that it fell far short of my personal expectations.
After watching the third installment of the Matrix saga, I feel let down by directors Larry and Andy Wachowski (“Bound,” “Assassins” and “The Matrix”).
I didn’t sense any of the originality or creativity present in the original “Matrix” or that was alluded to in “Matrix Reloaded.”
There were some incredible fight scenes and there is enough eye candy in this to feed many science-fiction fans, but I hoped for more.
The Wachowskis had a chance to create something that was truly on the scale of a mythical epic.
Even the names of many of the characters are drawn directly from ancient beliefs and heroes.
Keanu Reeves’ character is named Neo, which is ancient Greek for new, as in the new hope Morpheus kept speaking of.
Laurence Fishburne’s character Morpheus – Morpheus is the Greek God of dreams, who better to awaken Neo and tell him the truth about the matrix.
Neo’s true love is Trinity, played by Carrie-Anne Moss, and everyone who went to Sunday School knows the Trinity represents the Father, Son and Holy Spirit in the Christian religion.
Morpheus’ true love is Niobe, played by Jada Pinkett-Smith, and in Greek mythology, Niobe is the name of Tantalus’ wife. Tantalus was sent to the Underworld by the gods and given a big thirst, and he was tied to a wooden post. When Tantalus held his head up, water would flow up to the tip of his chin but if he leans forward to drink, the water instantly disappeared.
Even in the beginning of “Revolutions,” we find Neo, seemingly comatose in sickbay
with a human named Bane, who has been taken over by the run amuck program, Agent Smith, and who is also in a coma next to Neo. Bane who now believes he is Smith wakes up and tries to kill everyone onboard the hovercraft. Bane in the old German dialect means death, killer or slayer.
Even the hovercrafts they flew evoked tales of ancient heroes. Morpheus’ ship, the Nebuchadnezzar, is named after the Powerful ancient Babylonian king who restored the land to greatness.
The hovercraft where Bane goes crazy and tries to kill Neo and Trinity is named Mjolnir (mole-near), that is also the name of the Norse god Thor’s magical hammer.
In “Revolutions,” Neo learns the truth behind the source of his powers and why he is able to use them in the real world. While Neo’s powers have grown, so have those of Agent Smith – to the point that he has become a bigger threat to the machines than the citizens of Zion.
The plotline of “Revolutions” begins with a huge battle.
The war between man and machine continues as the Zion military desperately battles to hold back the Sentinel invasion as the Machine army bores into their stronghold.
Facing annihilation, the citizens of Zion fight for the future of mankind itself.
Growing more powerful, Smith is beyond the control of the machines and now threatens to destroy their empire along with the real world and the Matrix.
The Oracle offers Neo her final words of guidance, which he accepts with the knowledge that she is a program and her words could be just another layer of lies in the Matrix.
With Niobe’s help, Neo and Trinity choose to a dangerous journey into the machine city.
Neo comes face-to-face with the ultimate power in the Machine world – the Deus Ex Machina – and strikes a bargain that is the only hope for a dying world.
The war will end tonight, with Neo’s destiny and the fate of two civilizations in the balance.
This movie has a lot of violence, some brief nudity.
