A friend had a spare ticket for an afternoon screening of Matrix Revolutions at Mann’s Chinese. Hmm, well, I’m glad I didn’t have to pay $10 to see it, I guess. Not as bad as Reloaded, but man, what happened? These sequels happen in a completely different world from the original. Anyway, no spoilers here, you might even really like it. Some comments:
- better integrated, but still a lot of talky scenes, but again, so much dead time with surprisingly little character development
- most of the scenes that are supposed to make you care about these people… don’t
- head. hitting. over and over. – well except for most of the important stuff, that’s left a bit too vague
- for example: where’s the resolution? i just didn’t buy the whole ending sequence
- Random thought: Morpheus’ character as metaphor for the movies
Ahh well, it is what it is (and for the most part, it works as a spectacular spectacular sci-fi actioner). Totally different note, on the way, I caught a snippet of today’s Bookworm show w/ Chuck Palahniuk. I really enjoyed the parts that I caught.