Movie Gazette

Reviews Featuring Jada Pinkett-Smith

The Matrix: Reloaded
While you can’t help but be impressed by the computer-aided stunts and FX, the fact remains that this sequel isn’t fit to clean the original movie’s boots. A major disappointment.

The Matrix Revolutions
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.

The Matrix Revolutions
A Cartesian exploration of the relationship between man, machine and god. A vast epic in which three world collide. This seamless merger of thought and action which has made the ambitious Matrix trilogy so successful is continued in 'The Matrix Revolutions' - and while it inevitably suffers from following two films that have set an impossibly high benchmark, 'Revolutions' is an effective ending to the cycle. Apart from including Zion's last stand against the machines, and Neo's final battle with Smith, it is full of reflections on endings, and itself ends, appropriately enough, with a new beginning. I think I hear the pitter patter of three new Matrix films...

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