10 Movies That Had No Chance Of Living Up To The Hype

4. The Matrix Revolutions

The Matrix Revolutions Agent Smith Neo
Warner Bros.

The appearance of The Architect towards the end of The Matrix Reloaded might have been when the franchise jumped the shark, but Revolutions was when it disappeared completely up its own backside.

Just four years after the original had revolutionized the entire action genre, and six months after the highly-anticipated sequel had expanded the mythology and upped the ante in terms of large-scale action sequences, Revolutions sent the series out with a whimper as it devolved into a disappointingly banal series of pseudo-philosophical discussions driven by flat acting and clunky dialogue.

The relatively mixed reactions to Reloaded had already lowered expectations for the final chapter, but even then Revolutions was still a disappointment. What had the potential to be a groundbreaking sci-fi trilogy instead ended to complete apathy from the audience who responded with their wallets, as the movie earned $300m less at the box office than a sequel that had been released just six months earlier.

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