The Matrix Revolutions
| The Matrix Revolutions | |
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| Directed by | |
| Produced by | Joel Silver |
| Written by | The Wachowski Brothers |
| Based on | Characters by Andy Wachowski and Larry Wachoswki |
| Starring | Keanu Reeves Laurence Fishburne Carrie-Anne Moss Hugo Weaving Jada Pinkett Smith Harry J. Lennix Harold Perrineau |
| Music by | Don Davis |
| Cinematography | Bill Pope |
| Editing by | Zach Staenberg |
| Studio | Village Roadshow Pictures Silver Pictures NPV Entertainment |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
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| Running time | 129 minutes |
| Country | United States Australia |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $110 million[1] |
| Box office | $427,343,298 |
The Matrix Revolutions is a 2003 American–Australian science fiction action film and the third installment of The Matrix trilogy. The film was released six months following The Matrix Reloaded. The film was written and directed by the Wachowski brothers and released simultaneously in 60 countries on November 5, 2003. While it is the final film in the series, the Matrix storyline continued in The Matrix Online.
The film was the second live-action film to be released in both regular and IMAX movie theaters at the same time.
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Plot[edit]
Neo and Bane lie unconscious in the medical bay of the ship Hammer. Meanwhile, Neo finds his digital self trapped in a virtual subway station – a transition zone between the Matrix and the Machine City. In that subway station, he meets a "family" of programs, including a girl named Sati, whose father tells Neo the subway is controlled by the Trainman, an exiled program loyal to the Merovingian. When Neo tries to board a train with the family, the Trainman refuses and overpowers him.
Seraph contacts Morpheus and Trinity on behalf of the Oracle, who informs them of Neo's confinement. Seraph, Morpheus and Trinity enter Club Hel, where they confront the Merovingian and force him to release Neo. Troubled by visions of the Machine City, Neo visits the Oracle, who reveals that Smith intends to destroy both the Matrix and the real world. She states that "everything that has a beginning has an end", and that the war will conclude. After Neo leaves, a large group of Smiths assimilates Sati, Seraph and the unresisting Oracle, gaining her powers of precognition.
In the real world, the crew of the Nebuchadnezzar and the Hammer find and reactivate Niobe's ship, the Logos. They interrogate Bane, who claims to have no memory of the earlier massacre. As the captains plan their defense of Zion, Neo requests a ship to travel to the Machine City. Motivated by her encounter with the Oracle, Niobe offers him the Logos. Neo departs, accompanied by Trinity. Bane, who has stowed away on the Logos, takes Trinity hostage. Neo realizes that Bane has been assimilated by Smith. Bane cauterizes Neo's eyes with a power cable, blinding him; however, Neo discovers an ability to perceive the world as golden light. Neo kills Bane, and Trinity pilots them to the Machine City.
Niobe and Morpheus set out for Zion with the Hammer to aid the human defenses against the Sentinels. In Zion, the fatally wounded Captain Mifune instructs Kid to open the gate for the Hammer. When it arrives, it discharges its EMP, disabling the Sentinels but also the remaining defenses. The humans are forced to retreat and wait for the next attack, which they believe will be their last stand. Neo and Trinity are attacked by machines, causing them to crash the Logos into the Machine City. The crash kills Trinity.
Neo enters the Machine City and encounters the "Deus Ex Machina", the machine leader. Neo, warning that Smith plans to conquer both the Matrix and the real world, offers to stop Smith in exchange for peace with Zion. The machine leader agrees, and the Sentinels stop attacking Zion. The Machines provide a connection for Neo to enter the Matrix. Inside, Neo finds that Smith has assimilated all its inhabitants. The Smith with the Oracle's powers steps forth, claiming to have foreseen his victory. After a protracted battle, Neo baits Smith into assimilating him. The machine leader sends a burst of energy into Neo's body in the real world, causing all the Smiths in the Matrix to be destroyed. The Sentinels withdraw from Zion, Neo's body is carried away by the machines, and Morpheus and Niobe embrace.
The Matrix reboots, and the Architect encounters the Oracle in a park. They agree that the peace will last "as long as it can", and that all humans will be offered the opportunity to leave the Matrix. The Oracle tells Sati that she thinks they will see Neo again. Seraph asks the Oracle if she knew this would happen, and she replies that she did not know, but she believed.
Cast[edit]
- Keanu Reeves as Neo
- Laurence Fishburne as Morpheus
- Carrie-Anne Moss as Trinity
- Hugo Weaving as Smith
- Nathaniel Lees as Captain Mifune
- Jada Pinkett Smith as Niobe
- Harry J. Lennix as Commander Lock
- Harold Perrineau as Link
- Mary Alice as The Oracle
- Helmut Bakaitis as The Architect
- Lambert Wilson as The Merovingian
- Monica Bellucci as Persephone
- Tanveer K. Atwal as Sati
- Collin Chou as Seraph
- Nona Gaye as Zee
- Ian Bliss as Bane
- Gina Torres as Cas
- Cornel West as Councillor West
- Bernard White as Ramachandra
- Anthony Wong as Ghost
- Clayton Watson as Kid
- Anthony Zerbe as Councillor Hamann
- Bruce Spence as Trainman
- Tharini Mudaliar as Kamala
- Maurice J. Morgan as Tower Soldier
Actress Gloria Foster, who played the Oracle in the first and second films, died before the completion of her filming for the third.[citation needed] She was replaced by actress Mary Alice. Her changed appearance is addressed in the film's plot, and the directors stated they had coincidentally explored such a change early in the script's development.[citation needed]
Production[edit]
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Filming occurred concurrently with its predecessor, The Matrix Reloaded, and live-action sequences for the video game Enter the Matrix. This took place primarily at Fox Studios in Sydney, Australia.
Sound design[edit]
Sound editing on The Matrix trilogy was completed by Danetracks in West Hollywood, California.
Soundtrack[edit]
In contrast to the movie's predecessors, very few "source" tracks are used in the movie. Aside from Don Davis' score, again collaborating with Juno Reactor, only one external track (by Pale 3) is used.
Although Davis rarely focuses on strong melodies[citation needed], familiar leitmotifs from earlier in the series reappear. For example, Neo and Trinity's love theme—which briefly surfaces in the two preceding movies—is finally fully expanded into "Trinity Definitely"; the theme from the Zion docks in Reloaded returns as "Men in Metal", and the energetic drumming from the Reloaded tea house fight between Neo and Seraph opens "Tetsujin", as Seraph, Trinity and Morpheus fight off Club Hel's three doormen.
The climactic battle theme, named "Neodämmerung" (in reference to Wagner's Götterdämmerung), features a choir singing extracts (shlokas) from the Upanishads. The chorus can be roughly translated from Sanskrit as follows: "lead us from untruth to truth, lead us from darkness to light, lead us from death to immortality, peace peace peace". The extracts were brought to Davis by the Wachowski brothers when he informed them that it would be wasteful for such a large choir to be singing simple "ooh"s and "aah"s (according to the DVD commentary, Davis felt that the dramatic impact of the piece would be lost if the choir was to sing 'This is the one, see what he can do' in plain English). These extracts return in the denouement of the movie, and in Navras, the track that plays over the closing credits (which may be considered a loose remix of "Neodämmerung").
Reception[edit]
Box office[edit]
The film's budget is an estimated US$110 million,[1] grossing over $139 million in North America and approximately $427 million worldwide,[2] roughly half of The Matrix Reloaded box-office total. The Matrix Revolutions was released on DVD and VHS on April 6, 2004. The film grossed $116 million in DVD sales.
The Matrix Revolutions grossed $83.8 million within its first five days of being released in North America.[3]
Critical reception[edit]
The film received generally negative reviews from film critics. The Matrix Revolutions received a score of 36% on Rotten Tomatoes.[4] The film's average critic score on Metacritic is 47/100.[5]
The film was criticized for being anticlimactic.[6][7] Additionally, some critics regard the movie as less philosophically ambiguous than its predecessor, The Matrix Reloaded.[8][9] Critics had difficulty finding closure pertaining to events from The Matrix Reloaded, and were generally dissatisfied.[10][11] The film's earnings dropped 66% during the second week after its release to theaters.[3]
References[edit]
- ^ a b Allmovie. 2010b. The Matrix Revolutions. [Online] Rovi Corporation (Updated 2010) Available at: http://www.allmovie.com/movie/the-matrix-revolutions-v282917 [Accessed 19 February 2010]. Archived at http://www.webcitation.org/5nfGxGihq.
- ^ "The Matrix Revolutions (2003)". Boxofficemojo.com. Retrieved 2012-07-11.
- ^ a b http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=weekend&id=matrixrevolutions.htm
- ^ "The Matrix Revolutions Movie Reviews, Pictures – Rotten Tomatoes". Rottentomatoes.com. Retrieved 2012-07-11.
- ^ "Matrix Revolutions, The (2003): Reviews". Metacritic.com. 2003-11-05. Retrieved 2012-07-11.
- ^ "Time to pull the plug on The Matrix. – By David Edelstein – Slate Magazine". Web.archive.org. 2010-07-27. Retrieved 2012-07-11.
- ^ Clark, Mike (2003-11-04). "– 'The Matrix Revolutions': This big finish isn't The One". Usatoday.com. Retrieved 2012-07-11.
- ^ Scott Foundas (2003-11-06). "LA Weekly – Film+TV – The More the Murkier – Scott Foundas – The Essential Online Resource for Los Angeles". Laweekly.com. Retrieved 2012-07-11.
- ^ "''Baltimore Sun'': 'The Matrix Revolutions' makes it a little easier to believe". Web.archive.org. 2004-05-06. Retrieved 2012-07-11.
- ^ 'Matrix:' Neo-nonsense[dead link]
- ^ Movie Review|'The Matrix Revolutions': The Game Concludes With Light and Noise, archived at http://www.webcitation.org/5tCdIaww9
External links[edit]
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- The Matrix Revolutions at the Internet Movie Database
- The Matrix Revolutions at Box Office Mojo
- The Matrix Revolutions at Rotten Tomatoes
- The Matrix Revolutions Explained – a comparative-literature-style exegesis of selected parts of Matrix Revolutions.
- Lyrics to Neodammerung, including translation (archived)
- Understanding The Matrix Revolutions – A comparative guide to possible meaning and interpretations of The Matrix Revolutions
- The Matrix Revolution October 27, 2000 draft script by Andy & Larry Wachowski
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