8 Overhyped Movies We Can Consider Fairly Now The Dust Has Settled
1. The Matrix Revolutions (2003)
The Original Reaction...
rating: 2.5
The Matrix Revolutions felt like a movie built around answering questions nobody wanted (or cared) about finding out the answers to. With the second movie, The Matrix Reloaded, the Wachowski siblings opened up the world of The Matrix and gave audiences a little more than they had bargained for in the process: too much information. Sitting down to the third movie in this bloated franchise felt like sitting down to a live-action fanfic. Though the action is piled on (to ridiculous levels), it was impossible to escape the feeling that it was all so unnecessary. Yawn. Now The Dust Has Settled...rating: 2
The point of this article was to go back and look at some of cinema's most overhyped flicks, to judge them not on prior expectations but on what's actually up there on the screen. In most cases, you'll see that I discovered new aspects or ways to enjoy some of the movies that I revisited .Not here: The Matrix Revolutions proved worse than I remember. At the time of my original viewing, I was a teenager, and probably found stuff to like for no other reason than "The Matrix." But watching this one again, it almost felt as though somebody else was forced to write this movie from notes that the Wachowski's had scrawled on the walls of their apartment succumbing to a suicide pact. They get horribly lost in their own logic, and it's boring. Worse of all, though, after everything we've witnessed over the course of the trilogy, it's all so... anti-climatic. I really couldn't find anything redeeming about Neo's third adventure: even in actively disliking it, it became rather clear I had actually given it too much credit - this is a particuarly poor movie, through and through. Like this article? Agree or disagree? Let us know in the comments section below.