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The incredible visionary journey that started in the mid-'90s and crossed over
the millennium has reached its final, spectacular destiny. While Andy and Larry
Wachowski admittedly adopted Japanese anime and Manga style action, characters
and situations, they were the ones to perfect its seemingly impossible transfer
to live action (with the help of an incredibly competent crew, Eastern stunt coordinators
and FX teams). Revolutionizing film-making may not have been their ultimate goal,
but they surely did that together with creating a multi-layered trilogy which
integrated its narrative and philosophy to other directly related media (like
the PS2 game Enter The Matrix
and intense anime collection The
Animatrix - all story lines
directly relating to the trilogy, supplementing its already in-depth philosophical
tale of man-machine integration and rivalry). In this concluding chapter Neo's
powers are reaching its peak (as is the case with the relentless Agent Smith).
The machines are about to reach the human city of Zion where an intense and brutal
battle is to ensue. Digital or not, the robotic man-driven machines fighting the
horde of sentinels is quite spectacular. With the insane Agent Smith and his duplicated
army posing a threat to the survival of both the remaining humans and the machines
alike, Neo has to undertake a dangerous journey to fulfill his destiny as The
One, even if The Architect told him otherwise. While FX-laden, as an individual
film Revolutions
does not tower above its two predecessors, but keep in mind that it is the denouement
of a trilogy and should be seen as a whole.
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MATRIX REVOLUTIONS
