The Matrix Revolutions

The Matrix Revolutions 2003

• Director: Lana and Lilly Wachowski
• Based on book: no.
• Cast: Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Ann Moss, Laurence Fishburne, Hugo Weaving, Harold Perrineau
• Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
• Keanu Reeves – John Wick, The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Lake House, A Scanner Darkly, The Matrix Trilogy, Sweet November, The Gift, Feeling Minnesota, Johnny Mnemonic, Speed, Much Ado about Nothing, My Own Private Idaho, Thumbsucker, Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure
• Carrie-Ann Moss – Humans, Matrix 2 and 3, Snow Cake, Chocolat
• Laurence Fishburne – Man of Steel, Contagion, Bobby, Akeelah and the Bee, Mystic River, Matrix 2 and 3, Othello, What’s Love Got to Do with It, Boyz n the Hood, Class Action, The Colour Purple, Rumble Fish, Apocalypse Now
• Hugo Weaving – Mortal Engines, Strangerland, The Hobbit etc, Cloud Atlas, V for Vendetta, Little Fish, Lord of the Rings etc, Matrix etc, The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert
• Harold Perrineau – 28 Weeks Later, The Matrix Revolutions, Romeo & Juliet, Smoke
• Why? Because
• Seen: Probably once before. Now 20 December 2019

             This has got to better than the second one, right? I’ve promised Hal that it would be, or he refuses to watch it. Me too, for that matter.

       It starts with a big question: is Neo (Reeves) in the Matrix or in a coma or what? Bigger question: are we going to care?

       Well, actually, yes.

       The battles are too long, as always, but amazingly exciting. I don’t even fall asleep. It seems very old-fashioned with all the clunky robot weaponry and despite the Kung Fu superman fanciness, a fist fight is still a fist fight (= boring).

       Otherwise it’s visually stunning with quite a lot of emotional moments and a story that makes more sense than the first two. Quite a satisfactory ending too, despite some loose threads, so luckily my promise to Hal was kept.

      

3½ * of 5