..with a whimper. I was one of the few folks I know who enjoyed the second one – ultimately pretentious but still interesting and visually compelling. I went to see the finale to the trilogy this weekend and left….underwhelmed. It didn’t out and out suck, the effects are still fun to watch on the big screen and the movie has the best punch in the history of cinema (I laughed out loud when I saw it), but the plot is basically a big let down and the dramatic, supposedly poignant scene near the end was dreadful. The secondary characters can’t act and the centerpiece of the film, the huge defensive battle at the heart of zion, took too long to get to. If you dig the effects and can stand bad acting and a poor resolution to the central story, it’s worth seeing on the big screen, but if the second one pissed you off the third one’s likely to do you even worse.