Don’t believe what the reviews say. The Matrix Revolutions is fantastic.
I saw it this Saturday, which is a week later than my brother, and much much later than my cousin BG who saw the premiere show, but I saw it in style. Balcony tickets at Priya. A wide screen and Dolby sound. The way Matrix Revolutions should be watched.
True, it doesn’t match up to the original, but then, what could? On the other hand, it leaves Reloaded gasping in the dust. The action sequences and music are every bit as good as in the original Matrix, and so the CGI effects are superior. Matrix Revolutions is every bit as kickass as the Real Star Wars Trilogy.
Story? Story’s awesome too. It’s nice and accessible if you’re a layman. If you’re a CS person who’s finished a course on Theory of Computation, than it’s even better. Determinism and nondeterminism, baby. That’s the key. If you’ve done NFAs and DFAs, then the story isn’t just nice, it’s wow. You’ll leave the theatre understanding why everything happened, but not exactly how it happened. It’ll take you a couple of days (and maybe a couple more viewings) to understand that. And if you’ve got a book on the general principles of chaos (I recommend Does God Play Dice, by Ian Stewart), you’ll be just fine. That’s what happened to me, anyway.
Next, I’m going to watch Kill Bill. Live action anime. Yeah!