Fuck revisionism. The Matrix sequels were like the original movie, just devoid of all the things that made it any good at all. The sense of wonder and possibility, the pacing, the relative simplicity, the use of the Matrix itself as a setting, even the story, as standard "Hero With a Thousand Faces" as it was. They were bloated, boring, and hilariously overplotted. The only movies that compare are Lynch's Dune and The Chronicles of Riddick.