The Wachowskis may have something in their theory that the world is simply a complex operating system humans are simply virtual programs.... Their dialogue feels written by a computer program, and for that matter acted by a collection of CGI figures.

| Sep 9, 2023

Perhaps it’s wrong and narrow-minded to hope that the Wachowskis would only live up to their original film, but their brand of mythology expansion narrows the possibilities and limits the viewer’s enjoyment of this universe.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 12, 2022

Just as much as the last entry was a piece of a story, this one is a fragment, telling so little of the yarn that it’s the least complex and most inessential of the series, save for the fact that it finally wraps up character loose ends.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Jul 11, 2022

There are things to like in the opening moments and the final showdown but the rest is either dull or visually unappealing CG bullet-fest scenes... or both, I guess.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 22, 2021

One only trusts that some of those who made vast and overextended claims for the first part of the trilogy have been awakened to reality by this latest nonsense, with any luck by the sound of their own howls of laughter.

| Feb 15, 2021

Billed as the final chapter, the [Wachowskis] cop out and leave hints of a potential fourth film. Here's a suggestion: Dump the franchise, because this series has clearly overstayed its welcome.

| Nov 15, 2019

The original Matrix was full of dizzying surprises. But it's turned out that the Wachowskis didn't have many more tricks up their sleeves.

| Mar 12, 2018

There's great storytelling - some of Hollywood's best ever. The story takes jaw-dropping turns.

| Original Score: B | Jan 4, 2018

The Wachowski Brothers kept true to their original story.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jan 12, 2016

Averages out to be a mildly better film than The Matrix Reloaded, mostly on account of being neither as good nor as bad in its peaks and valleys.

| Original Score: 5/10 | May 31, 2012

Finale with same heavy violence, weaker script.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 28, 2010

Ah, the Wachowski's were one trick ponies after all.

| Apr 29, 2009

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 7, 2008

Some of this stuff is just cheesy in the same way it's been cheesy in dozens of cheaper, less cultish films.

| Original Score: C- | Mar 11, 2008

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 14, 2007

It's amazing how such a brilliant opening film can devolve into nothing but uninteresting fight scenes and unnecessary visual effects.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 8, 2006

Not in my memory has a film been filled with such a succession of ejaculatory FX shots that cover any semblance of story in goo.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 6, 2005

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Dec 6, 2005

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 5, 2005

Zzzzzz.

| Original Score: C | May 4, 2005