The problem is, Revolutions isn’t supposed to be the series’s Empire Strikes Back. In fact, The Matrix Revolutions arguably had the potential to be the Empire Strikes Back to The Matrix’s Star Wars, had the Wachowskis not squandered that opportunity six months ago with Reloaded. The pseudo-philosophical gibberish is mercifully lighter here, and the outright sleaze of the earlier film’s rave-sex scene isn’t repeated.īeyond that, unlike Reloaded, which featured an impressive but hardly groundbreaking freeway chase scene as its biggest set piece, Revolutions has startling new sights to offer, notably a spectacular siege scene that recalls the first act of The Empire Strikes Back with its Walker attack on the Hoth Rebel base. Seraph, etc.), the action actually matters this time around. Instead of pointless exhibition matches (Neo vs. The good news is that The Matrix Revolutions gets right a lot of what its predecessor got wrong.
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