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

Finale with same heavy violence, weaker script.

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

Zzzzzz.

| Original Score: C | May 4, 2005

''Everything that has a beginning has an end,' says the tag line. Not in financial terms it doesn't.'

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 22, 2005

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 24, 2004

The Matrix Revolutions is where I sadly fell out of love with the whole exotic franchise

| Jan 15, 2004

An impressive closing to the cycle.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 9, 2003

Unlike Reloaded, the storytelling in Revolutions is far more streamlined and self-assured. It's also a clunky, colossal bore.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Nov 8, 2003

The Wachowski brothers have rendered their chronicles into banality, as if trying to imitate the qualitative tailspin of the Star Wars series.

Full Review | Nov 7, 2003

There's nothing even resembling a surprise in the third and weakest installment of the trilogy.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 7, 2003

Neo's messianic abilities, the war against the machines, the freeing of mankind, the irrelevant characters — practically nothing pays off in a satisfying way.

| Original Score: C | Nov 7, 2003

No less than the rankest demagogue, The Matrix Revolutions insists on the primacy of faith over knowledge. Once it locks and loads, however, the triumphant visuals short-circuit anything resembling abstract thought.

Full Review | Nov 5, 2003

One of the most original concepts in recent fantasy movie history has devolved into something perfectly ordinary.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 5, 2003

As an action movie, it's talky, but it rocks.

Full Review | Original Score: A- | Nov 5, 2003

Over all, The Matrix Revolutions, the third and last of the film cycle envisioned by Andy and Larry Wachowski, mostly feels as hackneyed as the first film felt fresh.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 5, 2003

This isn't revolution, this is devolution.

Full Review | Original Score: D+ | Nov 5, 2003

The Matrix Revolutions is not a bad movie. It's just a maddening one.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 5, 2003

Noisy, repetitious and bloated with the Wachowski brothers' jumbled, digital-age philosophy.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 5, 2003

What Gertrude Stein famously said about Oakland applies equally to Revolutions -- after all the secrets are revealed, there's no there, there.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Nov 5, 2003

The more thought you give the film, the less it deserves.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 5, 2003