»Revolutions according to me, me, me (spoilers!)«

Right. Barring the inevitable disappointment when something is so hyped, I did have a few gripes about Revolutions. For what its worth, here they are:

1) First and foremost, I felt that the entire trilogy (and extras such ani/enter the) hinged upon the relationship between Smith and Neo. Both were mirrors of each other, and Smith of course was the reason the One in question was different from his predecessors. I would have liked to have seen less Zion and more Neo/Smith. I mean, it all seemed to come quite abruptly.

2) More than 22 seconds of time devoted to Smith taking over the Matrix. The only reference to this is when it all goes a little screwy when they're charging the Logos. It would have been great to see what was happening in there as Smith took control.

3) Better scripting for Smith at the end. 'It's my world! Mine!' seems a bit like the wicked witch of the west when she dies 'what a world, what a world...' The monologue about why Neo continues to fight was great, but the line about already knowing he beats him was lame in my opinion.

4) The punch. Made a pivotal moment comical, tainted the trilogy as much as 'I love you too damn much!'

Having said all that, I feel that despite these shortcomings it was a fine finale. Of course, if I had written it I would have had Neo and Smith being forced into an alliance and rerouting the source back into the Matrix mainframe, therefore connecting all the machines to it and then shutting it down, but oh well...here's my pros:

1) Flight of the Hammer- great chemistry between Niobe and Morpheus.

2) Trinity dying- masterstroke.

3) The style of the set/costumes for the Smith Neo finale, as well as the effects. Besides the gripes mentioned above, the fight itself (from 'beats you' to 'my world mine') was near perfect.

4) Neo's conversation with Rama-Kandra- great parallels drawn between human and machine psyche/ 'emotion'.

With all the above taken into account, I thought it was fantastic, if a little rushed. As soon as we knew that Zion was a creation of the machines, it ceased to matter in the overall plot and therefore the battle for it was irrelevant. I mean, did anyone really care if Jason Locke lived or died? We wanted Neo and Smith dammit, and the movie simply did not focus on them enough. Their relationship, why Smith was so different- I know it was because part of the One was imprinted on him, but why did this not happen to Smith's predecessors, who presumably would have had the same thing happen when the One was realised.

Perhaps I am biased toward Smith but he was the protagonist after all, not 250,000 squiddies swarming upon a city that we already knew (by the fate of previous Zions) could not achieve victory.

Anyways, nobody can have everything they want (we already know that entire crops would be lost if this were the case), so what have I got to complain about? At least the thing was made- imagine a world where the Matrix was sitting on some script scrap pile, or where Ewan McGregor had actually taken the role of Neo when it was offered to him? I'm simply happy to have been a part of it, albeit only as a fan.

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2) More than 22 seconds of time devoted to Smith taking over the Matrix. The only reference to this is when it all goes a little screwy when they're charging the Logos. It would have been great to see what was happening in there as Smith took control.

That would cost alot for the procuders and why? All we would see is him sticking his hand in people and saying: me me me!

The only thing I would have loved to see was Smith visiting the Mero at club Hel. But this would also cost alot (just imagine all the Smiths walking in such a wide area is again hard to film).

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3) Better scripting for Smith at the end. 'It's my world! Mine!' seems a bit like the wicked witch of the west when she dies 'what a world, what a world...' The monologue about why Neo continues to fight was great, but the line about already knowing he beats him was lame in my opinion.

I don't know. This unveals his true purpose. He IS the system fighting the unwanted Neo-factor.

The Oracle tells us in the park that weird programs like vampires is the system assimilating programs which are doing things they aren't supposed to be doing.

Now what is Smith doing?
He is assimilating!

Now what is Neo?
He is the sum of a bunch of people that denied the program, which equals programs that aren't doing what they should have been doing.

So Smith is the system trying to assimilate Neo, to balance out the equation.

Now either two things can happen:

1) The One fears the crash that Smith is heading to and he decides to comply to the Architect. His code would then temporarely disseminate. Disseminating means spreading through the Matrix; in this proces Smith will be neutralized as the negative when Neo's code, as the positive, spreads through the Matrix.

2) The One confronts his darkser side and they resolve together, returning both to the Source, solving the equation, bringing harmony to the Matrix again.

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4) The punch. Made a pivotal moment comical, tainted the trilogy as much as 'I love you too damn much!'

It was just cool! And still misleading us! With such a punch you might think that Neo is still heading for a victory by destroying Smith.

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but why did this not happen to Smith's predecessors, who presumably would have had the same thing happen when the One was realised.

I personally think there was such an Anti One each time. It makes sense regarding to the logics of the system/equation.

i totally disagree with you about the punch. it was simply awesome! thats how i would want to get punched in the face.

hi all
i think that M2 and M3 is one movie and they had to be seen at once like you watching one 5-6 hours movie - but even in this case M1 is very-very different - scenario, directing, all:-) they are so different that man can think authors are not the same people:-) /local "conspiracy theory"/ M1 is tight, next two are decomposed - just my 2 $0.01; I think if I was on the WB place I would avoid effect scenes like machines attack to Zion and ridiculous scene when obviously computer-generated Neo fighting crowd of Smith's - and many other that seems too artificial to me - in M1 effects was really realistic:-) I would make M2and3 more realistic, more earthly /incl. scenes with computer generated effects/.
I think also that M4 may come - but not with the same characters /i.e.: the next One - who is he? where is he?/ - or with the same characters but BEFORE M1.
Excuse me for my bad english /if it is english at all:-)/ I hope you'll understand what I wanted to say.
If anything more comes to my mind. I promise - I'll let you know.
thanks

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