I liked The Matrix 3 when it came out, but it's just really hard to get around the fact they had a super compressed schedule (2 and 3 were the *same year!*) and *two* of their key actresses died. The filmmakers were in a really difficult position! The fact they were able to nail Reloaded basically without compromises (whatever you think, it was the movie they wanted to make) makes me think it was at the expense of Revolutions. If they'd had another 6, 12 months it could have felt more complete.
@mcc it is my personal opinion that they were hijacked a little by the pan-media universe thing, which you gotta think changed some priorities; they had a really tight simple resonant story with like 4 archetypal players in a boring version of Sydney to needing to greeble the actual proverbials off of everything they could get their hands on to get enough bits to hang video games and stuff off of
exact same thing as Star Wars actually, Lucas some money off toys and he’s like actually no the background guy browsing for space jibblets for six frames here is called Dix Jacko™ and he’s using a Plunk City™ hyperwallet™ and he’s listening to colostrum™ space music