The Matrix: Revolutions… First Thoughts
The first day of the release and I’ve already heard a ton of negativity about this movie. I was expecting it though, because there was a great deal of it right after Matrix: Reloaded. People complain about the movie and the go and tell their friends that haven’t seen it that it wasn’t all that great, and occasionally… they post comments on message boards. These are sweeping comments like, “…and ‘true’ Matrix fan is going to be disappointed with the ending.”
Well, I’m a true Matrix fan. I wasn’t disappointed with the ending. (The credits were longer than any non-Matrix film I’ve seen, but that Silver Pictures logo is cool and… who ever gets tired of the WB logo, y’know?)
I think that there will always be people who are unhappy at the end of trilogies. The first two movies leave you with anticipation and expectation while the conclusion leaves you with that feeling that comes to us when we’re young children shortly after Christmas, (or any other anticipated gift receiving event.) I suppose that sometimes fans expected Daddy to get them a pony, so naturally they’re disappointed when they receive a dozen or so other gifts — fine gifts — gifts that are just not the pony or anything like it.
I enjoyed this movie. Certainly I had different strengths of attachment to the various characters, and so I had felt slight disappointment when my desire for more of them was not met, but I am not going to let minor disappointments accumulate and taint my view of the whole movie. Instead, I enjoyed getting to know new characters, seeing more of characters with small roles in the previous film(s), and I enjoyed experiencing the strong emotions I felt when characters bowed out. It was really great (enjoyable/worthwhile) to see Smith grow (in number and power,) but never really grow mature. He was so numerous, so powerful, but so lost and desperate too. If I were powerful and numerous I’d really relate to him — even more than I already do.
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