If you don’t know about The Matrix then let me give you a brief overview: Human beings are being used as batteries for machines who have taken over the world as we know it. The majority of the population don’t know that they have been plugged into the world they are experiencing, that work, relationships and the day to day monotonies of life is just programming.
What they think is real life is actually The Matrix, a computer-simulated world to keep humans asleep. But not everyone is asleep. Some have woken up and are raging against the machines, unplugging anyone who dares to take the blue pill and join them in their fight.
Then there is ‘The One’ a person fated to end the fight between humans and machines once and for all.
The Matrix trilogy spanned the following movies; The Matrix (1999), The Matrix Reloaded (2003) and The Matrix Revolutions (2003).
The Matrix Revolutions (3/5)
The last and the least favourite of the three for me. The Matrix Revolutions was a direct continuation from The Matrix Reloaded, and because of this it didn’t have its own formulative narrative. It was an okay movie, but nothing new really happens. At this point I was tired of the vague hints from The Oracle, and the unsaid directions and plans the characters were on. The ending was both conclusive but also unsatisfying.
The Matrix (3.5/5)
I have probably seen this movie more than the others due to various attempts to rewatch the trilogy and not getting past the first movie. This time however I feel like I really took it in. Being a proper adult who works and is generally ‘part of the system’ I understood the commentary on ‘humans being controlled by the machine’ and us ‘being sleeping batteries who keep the system going’ more than I have in the past. With that in mind even though I would definitely be team blue pill, I really routed for Morpheous, Trinity and Neo in waking up and fighting the good fight.
The Matrix Reloaded (4/5)
It has been ages since I have given a four star review but I didn’t hesitate when it came to giving one to The Matrix Reloaded. As I began this film something clicked, I understood that The Matrix Trilogy was in fact a noughties styled, Sci-Fi, Martial Arts, Action movie, and with that in mind it became incredibly clean cut.
We came in already understanding the world and its rules were introduced to something new with Zion and then began preparing for the fight ahead. You really began to deep just what Neo could do, and answered your own questions about the rules within the movie with the knowledge you had gathered thus far. And some of those fight sequences were just 10/10.
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