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Matrix Reviews!!
The Matrix
"No one can be told what the Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself." says Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne), the earnest, elegant John the Baptist figure in the Wachowski brothers' allegorical science fiction masterpiece. Well, we'll give it a shot.
He's talking to Neo (Keanu Reeves), a blank-faced computer whizz who's about to go through the looking glass - out of the late 20th century world as he knows it, into the real, post-apocalyptic "desert of the real".
It's a reality where robots rule the planet and keep humans plugged into a virtual reality matrix, living in a dream world, while their energy fuels the machines.
Morpheus thinks Neo is The One, the messiah figure who will destroy the Matrix and resurrect humanity. Fellow freedom fighter Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss) is convinced too. But Neo isn't certain, and will have to face the pernicious, powerful, Matrix meanie Agent Smith (Hugo Weaving) to find out.
The Matrix Reloaded.
How do you top "The Matrix"? You don't.
Are your expectations sufficiently lowered? If so, you'll enjoy "The Matrix Reloaded" a lot. It's smart, sexy, and action-rammed - it just can't equal its illustrious predecessor, or be adequately assessed until we've seen "The Matrix Revolutions" this November.
Picking up shortly after the original left off, we join Neo (Keanu Reeves) in the real world. Haunted by a dream in which his lover, Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss), is killed, he enters the virtual reality construct of the Matrix, to seek out the all-knowing Oracle (the late Gloria Foster).
Zion, meanwhile, is in danger. A machine army of 250,000 sentinels (tentacled compu-beasties) are boring toward the underground city, which houses the remnants of humanity.
Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne) is convinced Neo can save it, but to do so 'the One' has to locate the source of the Matrix, which proves a tricky business, with many enemies in the way.
Not least of these is Agent Smith (Hugo Weaving), who returns despite being deleted in part one. Other baddies include the seductive Persephone (Monica Bellucci), albino twins (Neil and Adrian Rayment), and Merovingian (Lambert Wilson), a funny Frenchman who provides the most memorable of the movie's many philosophical discursions.
These are somewhat portentous, but they never become monotonous in the way that the action sequences do.
Stepping on from the celebrated 'bullet time' photography of part one, the effects team go into overdrive in spectacular but overlong scenes. And whether battling multiple Smiths or "doing his Superman thing", Neo often - ironically - appears computer-generated.
There's still much to gape at, but here's hoping the concluding chapter will be leaner, meaner, and less grandiose. Bring on the revolution.
The Matrix Revolutions
The characters review The Matrix Revolutions: "This is asinine"; "It doesn't make sense"; "I can't believe we spent so much time and money on the pseudo-spiritual, dumb, videogame drooling of two guys who've read Derrida and think anime is profound."
OK. Maybe not that last one. Multiple meanie Agent Smith does, however, echo the sentiments of desperate, disappointed audience members when he asks, "Is it over?"
"GOSH, IS THAT THE TIME?"
The third and, please Lord, final part of the Wachowski brothers' sci-fi series starts where Reloaded left off, ie. with confusion battling boredom. The so-called saviour of the machine-dominated world, Neo (Keanu Reeves), is in a coma-style state, as is some bloke who popped up for about five minutes in part two (Ian Bliss). Meanwhile, humanity's homeland is threatened, by hoards of eeevil, squid-like sentinels tunnelling towards Zion.
"Will Neo wake up?" "Will humanity survive?" "What's for tea tonight?" "Gosh, is that the time?" are all questions you may ask during the first mind-numbing 40 minutes, with its rambling conversations and snoreful philosophical noodlings.
"YOU ROOT FOR THE MACHINES"
Best sink a couple of pints and turn up late, to "ooh" and "aah" over the big battle scene, which perks things up somewhat, even if you do start to root for the machines. Reminiscent of Ray Harryhausen epics, with its convincingly otherworldly effects, it's also heavily influenced by Aliens and The Terminator, without equalling either.
The main issue is that nothing is at stake. By extending Neo's powers to 'the real world' and overplaying the resurrection theme in Reloaded, the makers have removed all sense of danger, and, in fact, all sense at all...
The death of a major character elicits no emotion, the blinding of another brings sighs (you've read your Greek myths, lads - well done!). The more thought you give the film, the less it deserves, and when the (anti)climax rolls round, Smith's nihilistic diatribe sounds endearing. Thus, a would-be paean to the power of belief ends up meaning nothing at all.
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