10 Movie Franchises That Screwed Up Their Final Part
4. The Matrix Revolutions
How we loved it when the first Matrix film came out in 1999 and immediately made a splash at the Box Office by blowing our minds and leaving us pining for more. The first film was considered so good that sequels were always inevitable. What was not inevitable, however, is how bad those sequels were.
Releasing two films within the space of a year is bold. You’ve got to be so sure your movie is good that fans who saw the second will be eager to see the third, basically right away. There can be absolutely no room for error.
But while a Matrix trilogy sounded good 19 years ago, the reality is it turned out to be a bad idea. Not even Reeves, donning his stylish black coat with matching sunglasses, could stop the two films that followed going down like a sinking ship with the second angering fans and the third losing them for good.
By the time The Matrix Revolutions came out, most people already knew things were going downhill and only the optimistic decided to see it at the cinema rather than wait for it to come out on VHS and reduce in price before giving it a go.
And they had every right to, because it sucked. The third instalment breaks lots of the rules laid down before it so by the time audiences left the cinema, there was a hell of a lot of head scratching going on. Even now, more than a decade on, only a select few know what The Matrix Revolutions was really about.