The Matrix Revolutions
The Matrix Revolutions | |
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Directed by | The Wachowskis[a] |
Written by | The Wachowskis |
Based on | Characters by The Wachowskis |
Produced by | Joel Silver |
Starring | |
Cinematography | Bill Pope |
Edited by | Zach Staenberg |
Music by | Don Davis |
Production companies |
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Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 129 minutes[1] |
Country | United States[2][3] |
Language | English |
Budget | $110–150 million[4][5] |
Box office | $427.3 million[5] |
The Matrix Revolutions is a 2003 American
The film was released simultaneously in 108 territories on November 5, 2003, by Warner Bros. Pictures. While being the final entry in the original trilogy of the series, the Matrix storyline was continued in The Matrix Online video game. It was the first live-action feature film to be released in both regular and IMAX theaters at the same time. It grossed $427.3 million worldwide, making the eighth highest-grossing film of 2003. It received mixed reviews on Metacritic and negative reviews on Rotten Tomatoes, which criticized it for focusing on special effects over characterization.
A fourth film, titled The Matrix Resurrections, began production in February 2020 and was released on December 22, 2021.
Plot
Picking up immediately where Reloaded ended,
In the real world, the crews of the Nebuchadnezzar and the Hammer find and reactivate Niobe's ship, the Logos. They interrogate Bane, who says that he has no recollection of the earlier massacre. As the captains plan their defense of Zion, Neo requests a ship to travel to the Machine City. Motivated by her encounter with the Oracle, Niobe offers him the Logos. Neo departs, accompanied by Trinity. Bane, who has stowed away on the Logos, takes Trinity hostage. Neo realizes that Bane has been assimilated by Smith, and a fight ensues. Bane burns Neo's eyes with a power cable, blinding him. Neo discovers that he can still "see" machine source code in the real world and uses this ability to kill Bane. Trinity pilots them to the Machine City.
Niobe and Morpheus rush toward Zion in the Hammer to aid the human defenses. Zion's shipyard is overwhelmed by a horde of Sentinels, and the fatally wounded
The Logos is attacked by a wave of machines outside of the Machine City. To avoid the onslaught, they fly above them to open sky, and then crash into a building, fatally wounding Trinity. Neo enters the Machine City and encounters the leadership of the machines in the form of the "
The Machines plug Neo into the Matrix, whose population has now been entirely assimilated by Smith. The Smith with the Oracle's powers steps forth, telling Neo that he has foreseen his victory against Neo. After a protracted fight, Neo appears to concede defeat and allows himself to be assimilated. Outside the Matrix, the machines send a surge of energy into Neo's body, which inside the Matrix causes the Neo-Smith clone, then all the other Smith clones, to be destroyed, restoring the Oracle and killing Neo. The Sentinels withdraw from Zion, Morpheus and Niobe embrace, and Neo's body is carried away by the machines.
The Matrix is rebooted, and the Architect meets the Oracle in a park. They agree that the peace will last "as long as it can" and that those humans who desire it will be offered the opportunity to leave the Matrix. The Oracle tells Sati (who created a beautiful sunrise for Neo) that she thinks they will see Neo again. Seraph asks the Oracle if she knew this would happen. She replies that she did not know, but she believed.
Cast
- Keanu Reeves as Neo
- Laurence Fishburne as Morpheus
- Carrie-Anne Moss as Trinity
- Hugo Weaving as Smith
- Jada Pinkett Smith as Niobe
- Monica Bellucci as Persephone
- Lambert Wilson as the Merovingian
- Mary Alice[b] as the Oracle
- Helmut Bakaitis as the Architect
- Harold Perrineau as Link
- Tanveer K. Atwal as Sati
- Bernard White as Rama Kandra
- Collin Chou as Seraph
- Nona Gaye as Zee
- Gina Torres as Cas
- Bruce Spence as the Trainman
- Ian Bliss as Bane
- Harry Lennix as Commander Lock
- Anthony Zerbe as Councillor Hamann
- Nathaniel Lees as Captain Mifune
- Clayton Watson as Kid
- Cornel West as Councillor West
- David Roberts as Captain Roland
- Anthony Wong as Ghost
- Tharini Mudaliar as Kamala
- Henry Blasingame (motion capture) as Deus Ex Machina
- Kevin Michael Richardson as the voice of Deus Ex Machina
Production
The film's budget was estimated between US$110 million[4] and $150 million.[5]
Filming occurred concurrently with its predecessor, The Matrix Reloaded, and live-action sequences for the video game Enter the Matrix. This took place primarily at Fox Studios in Sydney, Australia. Most notably, the subway scenes were filmed at the disused tunnels of St James railway station, and the end sequence with the Oracle and the Architect was filmed in the Royal Botanic Garden.[7][8] Carrie-Anne Moss injured her ankle during the shooting in Australia.[9]
Soundtrack
In contrast to its predecessors, very few "source" tracks are used in the film. Aside from
Release
The Matrix Revolutions was released in theaters roughly three weeks after The Matrix Reloaded arrived on DVD, on October 14, 2003.[10][11]
The film had the widest release ever opening simultaneously in 108 territories at 1400 Greenwich Mean Time on November 5, 2003.[12][13]
Reception
Box office
On opening day, The Matrix Revolutions scored $24.3 million, becoming the third-highest Wednesday opening, behind The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers and Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace.[14] During its three-day opening weekend, it would earn $48.5 million.[15] In its first five days of release, the film grossed $83.8 million in the United States and Canada from 3,502 theaters,[16] but dropped 66% during the second week.[16][17] For three years, it had the highest five-day Wednesday opening for any Warner Bros. film until it was taken by Superman Returns in 2006.[18] The film would even compete against the newly released family films Brother Bear and Elf.[19]
Internationally, the film grossed $119 million in its first 5 days from 10,013 prints in 107 territories, with the third-biggest opening ever in Japan and Spain and the fourth biggest in the United Kingdom, Italy and Mexico.[13] Combined, it grossed $203 million in its first five days.[17] This made it the highest worldwide opening weekend for any film, holding the record until it was beaten by The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King a month later.[20] The Matrix Revolutions would also achieve the record for having the biggest international opening weekend for an R-rated film until 2015 when it was surpassed by Fifty Shades of Grey.[21] The film grossed over $139 million in North America and approximately $427 million worldwide,[5] roughly half of The Matrix Reloaded box-office total.
Home media
The Matrix Revolutions was released on
Critical response
On review aggregation website
Some critics criticized the film for being
Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film three stars out of four, despite offering criticisms of his own, on the grounds that it at least provided closure to the story well enough so that fans following the series would prefer seeing it as to not.[33]
Sequel
While making the Matrix films, the Wachowskis told their close collaborators that at that time they had no intention of making another installment after The Matrix Revolutions.
In March 2017, The Hollywood Reporter wrote that Warner Bros. was in early stages of developing a relaunch of the franchise, with Zak Penn in talks to write a treatment, and interest in getting Michael B. Jordan attached to star. According to the article neither the Wachowskis nor Joel Silver were involved at that stage, although the studio would like to get at minimum the blessing of the Wachowskis.[43]
Warner Bros. officially announced the development on a fourth film in August 2019, with Lana Wachowski serving as director and producer on it. Lana wrote the screenplay with
Notes
- ^ a b Credited as The Wachowski Brothers.
- ^ Gloria Foster, who played the Oracle in the first two films, died before the completion of her filming for the third.[6] She was replaced by Mary Alice. Her changed appearance is addressed in the film's plot.
See also
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External links
- The Matrix Revolutions at IMDb
- The Matrix Revolutions at Box Office Mojo
- The Matrix Revolutions at Rotten Tomatoes
- The Matrix Revolutions at Metacritic
- The Matrix Revolutions Explained – a comparative-literature-style exegesis of selected parts of Matrix Revolutions.
- "Lyrics to Neodammerung, including translation". Archived from the original on May 11, 2008. Retrieved September 20, 2004.
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