From: http://www.popcultureshock.com/reviews.php?id=2601 PCS REVIEW The Matrix: Revolutions Release: 2003-11-05 Director: The Wachowski Brothers Starring: Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, Laurence Fishburne, Jada Pinkett-Smith, Hugo Weaving, Monica Belucci, Harold Perrineau Jr., Michelle Rodriguez When PCS provides you with exclusive content we mean exactly that, exclusive. Thanks to my close partners in crime, John Leigh and Deneice Phan, we抮e able to bring to you the first Matrix Revolutions review to hit a website! Be sure to check out pics from the celebrity after party here. So without further ado press on below for the review: My girlfriend and I had the pleasure of attending the premiere of the final chapter of the Matrix trilogy. After running into the likes of Will Smith, Clair Forlani, Joel Silver and Keanu Reeves on the red carpet, we went into the Disney Concert Hall where the movie was being shown. After a brief speech acknowledging the Wachowski抯 and Joel Silver, the movie theatre room went dark and the revolution began. Believe me when I say this, it is very difficult describing this movie without giving the story away. The movie starts exactly where Reloaded ended, on the ship with Neo and Bane unconscious while Morpheus, Trinity, Link and a few others try to come up with a strategy to get back to Zion. Suddenly, the movie jumps right into the action and starts to supply answers to all the questions the prequel, Reloaded, has created. The pacing of this movie is excellent, much better than its prequel. The special effects have been turned up ten fold along with the acting, sets and music. This is the final chapter, all truly ends here. There will be no more sequels so this movie holds the climax to the Trilogy. As the plot starts to unfold and as the purpose of each character is discovered, you\'ll start to realize how grand and epic this movie truly is. The battle in Zion for example is simply put, spectacular. The machines invade and rip the city apart as the humans do everything to hold them off and protect themselves. The people of Zion, who I didn抰 care about in Reloaded, started to draw close to my heart as I saw the bravery of humans battling foes many times superior. This battle makes the sequences in \'Attack of the Clones\' look like a cartoon. It was brutal, dynamic and very unpredictable. The fight between Neo and Smith that we all know from the trailers is something I could never have imagined. It抯 a cross between the final fight in 慒ist of the North Star?and 慏ragonball Z? They fight on the floor, in the air between the buildings, in the buildings, in the sky and in a crater created by Smith to which I won抰 tell you how! As revolutionary as 態ullet Time?was in the first Matrix more, this time the special effects have clearly stamped the mark of excellence and turned such a feature from in-famous back to famous. Slow motion punching creating huge ripple effects, camera panning round the characters reacting to every inflicting blow with the rain falling down; breath-taking! Is this it? NO, there抯 a lot more... The action sequence between Morpheus, Trinity, Seraph and 6 other bad guys in the club lobby is another out-of-this-world sequence. The bad guys are on the ceiling while the good guys are running the right way up. The camera turns in every direction and bullets fly in slow motion. There is another sequence of Niobe piloting a ship through a very narrow air duct while the gunner tries to keep the sentinels off as they make a run for the gates of Zion. The scene was nothing but high speed, full blast adrenaline-pumping action. Bottom line, this is one of the best movies I have ever seen to say the least. It is everything we hoped for and more. A new standard has been set in everyway a movie is made. Please note that what I have described above is only 20% of what you will experience watching The Matrix: Revolutions. I wished it didn抰 have to end but as we all know, everything that has a beginning has an end! -- Gavin Matheson |