over-done

Put in simple terms, the last two movies of the Matrix trilogy were warmed-over, pseudo-religious psychobabble which did just about everything wrong to forever taint the first movie's fish-out-of-water element and dazzling effects. I walked out of the theatre with a terrible taste in my mouth caused by the saccharine, fake ending and over-blown effects. Did George Lucas have a hand in these two movies? The grotesque sentinel war at the gates of Zion was just sick: as the machines stood firing at the sentinels pouring in, the Matrix saga was effectively pummeling itself to death.
The only redeemable scenes from these monstrosities was the car chase from "Reloaded" and the rain cinematography of the Smith-Neo fight in this one (the fight itself was rehashed). It seems sad that the last two movies did nothing to answer the millions of questions we had, but rather added more. But ultimately, we could not care less about the answers.
ps. the cover art is HORRIBLE!! I guess they realized that not many people will buy this DVD anyways, so what's the point? What a sad end to a hugely promising sci-fi trilogy. Stick with Lord of the Rings.

a letdown from the first 2.

well if you like bullets,lasers and explosions,this one is for you.problem is,thats it too.they go to the central core of whats holding the computer world together and rage war on it.then these millions and millions of robotic squid things come out.theres a big bunch of shooting and boom boom boom.the end.its too violent for kids i think.it seems as though they spent so much money on the squids,they forgot a storyline or anything else that goes with a movie.just boom boom boom.outof the 3,it basicly just wraps the first two up.in the first 2,there were stories,chicks,plots,scenes,and places.this had a dark place filled with squids.of the 3,this one is a distant 3rd.if you like sci fi and action youll love this one.this one black chick does some awesome pilot work in one of the movies most exiting parts.the hype was better than the movie actualy turned out to be.not to discredit it though as an excellent movie.this is keeono.uuuuhhhhhhh.....teds third best movie ever.ill give you one guess what the other two are.the trilogy ends here.it is a bit long,but good.

Brilliantly Written, overly special-effected

I would give this movie 4.5 stars if I could, but I can't. It like The Matrix Reloaded wasn't quite as good as the original, but still is a brilliantly written and important piece of sci-fi literature. Although it starts out directly where Reloaded leaves off, the situation is completely understandable and not confusing to a non-Matrix person. Like the others, its soundtrack of classical music with a blend of rock gives a nice feel.

Mind-boggling conversations between characters sieze to get old and Keanu Reaves gives his best preformance in the trilogy. It ends strangely, with Buddhist-Christian philosophies that balnket the sad ending with a happy, touching feel.

My only problem with this film is that the battle scenes are to elongated, and after a while become tedious, and just blurres of flashing light and loud noises.

Overall, I thought this was a great ending chapter to a science-fiction masterpiece.