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FanFix September 03, 2014 29270
Overall rating
 
9.8
Audio/Video Quality
 
10.0
Audio Editing
 
10.0
Visual Editing
 
10.0
Narrative
 
10.0
Enjoyment
 
9.0
An amazing edit.

As decent as the story of the first film is, it is (by and large) an introduction to the main story. The fact that we don't even see Zion in the first movie at all is telling, and after rewatching it before this movie it felt more like a TV pilot than ever before. When The Matrix ends, the story is just getting started.

The problem is where it went from there. The story of Reloaded has its moments, but was bogged down in mumbo-jumbo and a way too complex structure for its own good. Revolutions is terrible in almost every respect, and all the central parts - the Messiah story, the war movie, and Bane - are uniformy awful.

Although this is a really radical edit (Bane removed, and a completely different ending), it still stays true to the movies' main stories, apart from the vastly superior new ending. Despite cutting most of the war movie snoozefest, it's still recognisably about the attack on Zion. The fact that so much deadweight can be cut without creating continuity errors or plot holes, is a testament to how padded the story was with badly written stereotypes we were supposed to care about.

I probably enjoyed The Matrix DeZionized as much as I enjoyed this, for the simple reason that Zion is just not enjoyable in any form, not even with the deadweight removed. This edit, however, makes a lot more sense as a film, and is easily the better edit overall. It's as good as this extremely flawed story can get.

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