12 Movies That Were Ruined By One Dumb Decision

11. Spending So Much Time In Zion - The Matrix Reloaded/Revolutions

What did you like about The Matrix? Was it the incredible wire action, the smart logic behind it all, the unique sci-fi setting or the clear philosophical questions it raised? If you answered yes to any of the above then you were probably let down by the sequels.

With a much higher budget, The Matrix Reloaded pushed everything that worked to the extent it was actually tiresome (you liked Morpheus' fancy talk? Well here's the Architect to say lots of words that mean nothing), while The Matrix Revolutions rushed to a vaguely meaningful finale in the most laughable way possible. By far the strangest preoccupation of Reloaded and to an even worse extent Revolutions was the amount of time spent in Zion, home of the human revolution. The second film saw us finally visit the oft-discussed city, only to discover it was a depressingly generic sci-fi locale, complete with that definitely-not-tired staple the mech suit, full of people with a love of sweaty cave raving. And, by the final movie, half the action sequences were set there, featuring characters we neither knew nor cared for.

What everyone loved about The Matrix was, well, the Matrix - that fake world where anything was possible. Why, then, was the decision made to spend half of the remaining time in the purposely depressing real world?