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I saw the first 20 minutes and the last hour of the
movie! I like it its awwsome!
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Date: Thursday,
November 06, 2003 04:30:36 AM
Subject: [Sndbox]
Movie Review: Matrix Revolutions
Critics by and large are unimpressed by the Matrix Revolutions
hype. Joel
Siegel on Good Morning America observed that Warner Bros. went
all-out on
everything except the movie itself. "I'm not saying that the
Emperor is
naked, but if he shows up this morning here in Los Angeles, he's
going to
catch his death of cold," Siegel remarked. In the New York Post,
Lou
Lumenick cites Gertrude Stein's words about Oakland as applying
to
Revolutions: "There's no there, there." "Pure smoke and mirrors,"
comments
John Anderson in Newsday.Jack Mathews in the New York Daily News
begins his
review by remarking, "At least it's over." And those are some of
the kinder
reviews. Consider by way of comparison Stephen Hunter's in the
Washington
Post: "The film is a soggy mess, essentially a loud, wild
100-minute battle
movie bookended by an incomprehensible beginning and a laughable
ending."
(Hunter had praised the original Matrix film.) Or take Mike Clark's
blast in
USA Today: "This come-down of a series capper is so arch and
pompous amid
its clanks and collisions that you can only snicker at the verbal
wind that
obscures the din of marauding machinery." Chris Vognar in the
Dallas Morning
News grumbles: "There's nothing like a batch of sequels to cheapen
a movie's
legacy, but the decline of Matrix stock is particularly
jarring."
And Manohla Dargis asks mournfully in the Los Angeles Times: "How
did
something that started out so cool get so dorky?" The film does
manage to
enthrall a handful of critics, among them Lisa Kennedy in the
Denver Post,
who remarks: "The Matrix Revolutions leaves us with something to
chew on for
years to come." And Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times concludes:
"In a
basic and undeniable sense, this is a good movie, and fans who have
earned
their credit hours with the first two will want to see this one
and
graduate. To the degree that I was able to put aside my questions,
forget
logic, disregard continuity problems and immerse myself in the
moment, The
Matrix Revolutions is a terrific action achievement."
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