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Directed by
Andy Wachowski, Larry Wachowski Written by
Andy Wachowski, Larry Wachowski Cast
Mary Alice, Tanveer K. Atwal, Helmut Bakaitis, Kate Beahan, Francine Bell [more]
Release Date
• USA: Nov 7, 2003
• UK: 5 Nov 2003
DVD Release Date
• R1: Apr 2, 2004
• R2: 2 Apr 2004
Budget $110,000,000
Official Website:
The Matrix Revolutions Website
MPAA Rating
Rated R for sci-fi violence and brief sexual content.
Running Time
2 hours, 9 minutes
Country USA
Production Companies
Warner Bros., Village Roadshow Pictures, NPV Entertainment, Silver Pictures
Studio NPV Entertainment, Silver Pictures, Village Roadshow Pictures
More info on IMDb.com
Other Titles
• The Matrix Revolutions
• The Matrix 3
• The Matrix Revolutions: The IMAX Experience
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The Matrix Revolutions Reviews |
Revolutions is more action flick than either of its predecessors. While that may spell big box office, it doesn't spell long-term staying power, and of the three films in The Matrix trilogy, the final installment may well go down as the biggest disappointment of them all. [read review] 
--Leigh Johnson (Hollywood.com)
Noisy, repetitious and bloated with the Wachowski brothers' jumbled, digital-age philosophy, "Revolutions" picks up exactly where this summer's "The Matrix Reloaded" stopped, and after a plodding first hour it hurtles at video-game speed toward its spiritual climax. [read review]
--Jack Mathews (New York Daily News)
For some geeks, the movie's justification will be in the final showdown between Neo and Smith - a digital-effects extravaganza with an audience of thousands of Smiths watching as the two go at it on the ground and in the air, through lightning and a pouring rainstorm. [read review]
--Lou Lumenick (New York Post)
The fuzzy religious aura that has always surrounded Keanu Reeves's dude avatar Neo hardens into overt symbolism, and the upshot is both ridiculous and entertainingly fruity. True believers will be reaching for the red pill, but it's still not quite enough to convert the heretics. [read review] 
-- (Boston Globe)
“The Matrix Revolutions” is the final, essential movement of the Wachowskis’ vivid imagination for their series. It doesn’t quite answer all the questions, but it delivers the thrills and the reverence. This final chapter is sure to be debated for years to come. [read review] B+
--Brian Orndorf (FilmJerk.com)
Complaining that this film is short on concepts and heavy on action is moot; the Wachowski brothers really had no choice, considering the myriad of open-ended storylines introduced in its predecessors. Revolutions is the payoff movie, devoted solely to wrapping things up, though the film falls painfully short when it comes to providing the answers we really want. [read review]
--David Nusair (Reel Film Reviews)
Still, in a basic and undeniable sense, this is a good movie, and fans who have earned their credit hours with the first two will want to see this one and graduate. To the degree that I was able to put aside my questions, forget logic, disregard continuity problems and immerse myself in the moment, "The Matrix Revolutions" is a terrific action achievement. [read review]
--Roger Ebert (Chicago Sun-Times)
I did like this film a little more than RELOADED, if only because all of the hogwash psycho-babble is replaced by wicked CGI shoot-outs, but if I had to compare this one to the first film, or better yet, to any other sci-fi doozies that have come out over the past 20 years or so, it wouldn't even be a fair fight. [read review] 6/10
--'JoBlo' (JoBlo.com)
In this installment, the intelligence and ideas that formed one of the cornerstones of the original The Matrix, and were still in evidence in The Matrix Reloaded, have been shunted aside in favor of computer-generated action that makes about 1/3 of this movie look like a video game on the big screen. [read review] 
--James Berardinelli (ReelViews)
Regardless, now that trilogy is finished, I have to say that it’s been one hell of a ride. No, there’ll probably never be anything like it again and it’s interesting to think what it would’ve been like if Isaac Asimov was born right now and took Foundation in to Joel Silver or somebody as a pitch for a movie franchise. [read review] 6.5/10
-- (CHUD.com)
So when the climactic battle comes, it has no anticipation, no suspense, and not even any surprise. The Wachowskis have already used up their entire bag of tricks on the first two films, and they've even been out-CGIed this year by the likes of "Finding Nemo." [read review]
--Jeffrey M. Anderson (San Francisco Examiner)
At the risk of understatement, The Matrix Revolutions sucks. It's not that the final chapter in the trilogy doesn't have stunts and visual wizardry to drop your jaw. It's just that it all adds up to a supersize nothing: "the big bubkis," to lift a bit ofYiddish from the script by Andy and Larry Wachowski. [read review]
-- (Rolling Stone)
OK, creating this trilogy was no mean feat. It is a major accomplishment and will go down in cinematic history -- for special effects and marketing, in particular. But when it comes to a film standing the test of time, the audience must have an emotionalattachment with the story. A bunch of emotion-free humans dressed in black, wearing sunglasses, and millions of computer-generated machines doesn't fill that bill. [read review]
--Paul Clinton (CNN Showbiz)
Gravity defying battle sequences, amazing style and grace, philosophical reasoning, intelligent ideas, and inventive story telling are just a few things that can be taken a way from what will probably go down as one of the classic trilogies of our time. [read review] A-
--Craig Younkin (Lee's Movie Info)
I left Revolutions rather angry, not blaming the Wachowskis for some pre-disposed elevated expectations that they couldn’t deliver on but for the ones they SHOULD have delivered on in terms of relationships, loose ends and emotive closure. [read review]
--Erik Childress (eFilmCritic.com)
Does the final film answer all the questions? Thankfully, No. Would anybody really be satisfied if all the answers were given to them on a silver platter with no thought put into divulging the film series’ secrets for themselves? No. [read review] 9/10
--Joseph Kastner (Movie-Vault.com)
As a final act and summation of the brilliant "Matrix" and the not-so-brilliant "Matrix Reloaded," it's utterly inconsequential; as pure spectacle it's almost a hoot but only a little more entertaining, finally, than the Redskins. [read review]
--Stephen Hunter (Washington Post)
The Matrix Revolutions is an ambitious human epic that provides spectacular battle scenes and a story with solid emotional reflection, and it remains one of the most climactic final chapters in sci-fi history. [read review] 
--Joshua Bertram (MovieWeb)
I was entertained, but I was far from enlightened, and the fact that “The Matrix Revolutions” is the least interesting and challenging of the trilogy is certainly not something that I had expected to report. [read review]
--Jamey Hughton (MovieViews)
Yeah, it is a great movie, but it's not as great as we all hoped it would've been, which is why some will consider this movie a failure, even though it doesn't fail to entertain on many levels. [read review] 
--Brian Gallagher (MovieWeb)
A fitting end to the second film but a far cry from what we hoped for after the first. Revolutions offers bowl fulls of kinetic action, but fails to answer any of its own questions. [read review] 
--Derek May (MovieWeb)
The final installment of the Wachowski brothers' science fiction epic features cheesy computer-generated imagery and stodgy action sequences. It is 'The Matrix Disappoints.' [read review]
--Carla Meyer (San Francisco Chronicle)
An improvement on the woeful second part, though that isn’t really saying much, this is pretty much a straight-up war film – still, at least they tie everything up nicely. [read review]
--Matthew Turner (ViewLondon)
A perfect ending to one of sci-fi's crowning achievements. Overshadowing the amazing CGI, great story, and intense action, this film has a gigantic beating heart. [read review]
--Stephen 'Kerouac' Lindsay (MovieWeb)
Visually stunning, but in every other way completely and utterly boring. I found myself rooting for the robots, if only for the sake of a swifter ending. [read review] 4/10
--Gary Panton (Movie Gazette)
''Reloaded'' was certainly a lumpy, gaseous treatise of a movie, but viewers of ''Revolutions'' may find themselves looking back on it fondly. [read review]
--A.O. Scott (The New York Times)
The first 20-minutes is an undefined mish-mash of recap, followed by some action that pales in comparison with the previous films. [read review] 63/100
--Mike DeWolfe (Apollo Guide)
Apocalypse now and Zen: The trilogy's gloomy finale ties up the plot's loose ends but leaves the imagination hungry. [read review]
--Andrew O'Hehir (Salon)
It felt like I was experiencing the first forty-five minutes of Reloaded over the entire running time span. [read review] C-
--Lee Tistaert (Lee's Movie Info)
Maybe the Wachowskis just ran out of things to say and special effects with which to say them. [read review]
--Ron Weiskind (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
Better than "Reloaded," but the thrill is gone. [read review]
-- (Hollywod Reporter)
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