The studio and director Bryan Singer, best known for X-Men, struggled to findthe right tone for the film to keep it edgy but not so dark that it scared off younger children.
The recent signals coming from the Bush administration so angered Congressman Donald Payne that he, another Democrat and two Republicans wrote to Secretary of State Rice to find out why the US is changing its tone on Darfur.
"Revolutions" does find, however briefly, a desperately needed change of tone in the heartfelt heroics of Jada Pinkett Smith's Niobe, a courageous pilot who is joined on an ostensibly doomed mission by Laurence Fishburne's stalwart Morpheus.
Mr Blair has a good story to tell - and to sell as a possible model for more struggling economies in the EU. But to do this, he must first find a new and more constructive tone when dealing with Britain's EU partners.