Matrix Revolutions Decoded, The

Jerick combines Reloaded and Revolutions into a better narrative then we were given by their makers. For me it's made Revolutions part of something really good. Before it was a film I could not watch through after seeing it first in the cinema.

Thanks for what must have been a huge job. Hope many get to see it.

What a great job. I've watched and enjoyed a bunch of Matrix edits but for me, this is the best. The editor and I share a sense of what was great in the sequels and what is completely useless. This is my definitive version of the sequels. I have this and the first Matrix next to each other on my shelf, in my "real" movies section. This is perfectly paced and I loved the ending. Thank you for reading my mind and making it real, apparently.

Technically, this is incredibly proficient. Very clean, no noticable cuts or wonky stuff. Great job.

I'm very impressed over all. I think the changes are great. I watched this with a few people and only one friend who is basically a matrix purest was disappointed with the end.
I thought down playing the martyr / messiah thing was great.
I hadn't seen the originals in a while so I was a little rusty watching this, which made the movie a little harder to follow. I think if you just saw the first movie and watched this you'd be a little lost, but you'd get there in the end.
The pacing is great, very fast and fluid.
I thought the use of the rave at the end made much more sense.
I thought keeping Trinity alive was a bit tricky but you pulled it off well. It does get visually a little awkward but overall if I wasn't looking for cuts and "mistakes" and was just watching this like a Hollywood movie I might not have noticed all.

I very much enjoyed this version of the Matrix parts II and III. The editing is perfect, except for a bit at the end. The narrative works great. I felt Dezionized went too far, Zion is a good part of the story. Eliminating Neo's power over the machines in the real world seems like a much more precise diagnoses of what was wrong with the originals.

Now to some nitpicking. The "your move" line makes no sense, as the next scene in Zion shows the machines about to enter the cave and wipe everyone out. The problem is we have no machine drills. Even if we did, they would obviously have spares. I'd simply eliminate that line.

I like keeping Trinity alive and eliminating Bane or whatever his name was. Terrible thing in the original, that role. Of course, it gets a bit awkward with the narrative and the editing in machine city. But I'll take it.

Very happy with all the creative choices made, overall, maybe I would have liked to keep the night club scene, which I enjoyed. But all the trainman stuff had to go and if that was the price to pay, so be it.

This was a sensational edit, condensing a sound portion of the second movie, and tightening up the muddled third act, rearranging key scenes and stumbling on very creative solutions to what would normally be narrative dead-ends (how to blind Neo without a struggle with Bane) , to create a very different and tighter sequel worthy of the Matrix's initial promise with fans.