Humanity's Last Midnight

This video is one of my remake videos. As in, I made the original on Windows Movie Maker during my first two months of editing. The original was my last video of this era and it was one of my best, I thought.
So, when I started editing again with my Adobe, I was interested in going back and redoing some of my better music videos, this being one of the candidates. I started this is with one real goal in mind, to make a better video. I wanted the action to really sync up with the music and I wanted the video to move quick.
This song, "Mitternact", was introduced to me by my Uncle John. For some reason, I got this stuck in my head and couldn't stop listening to the thing. I would go to work, put the CD in, and listen to it for hours straight, wondering how I could use the song in any kind of video. It didn't help that my uncle showed me this video, leaving me thinking I couldn't do anything worth doing with the song. But then, I started thinking of the last Matrix movie, which had been a huge disappointment to me, but did have some pretty intense action shots that looked like someone had used the concept art straight in the movie.
I decided I wasn't going to focus on anything in the movies but the very last battles of the last film. I didn't want to focus on the heroes except for Neo and Smith. For Zion and the Nebuchadnezzar, I was just going to show how intense there struggle was, all the while the real fate is being determined by a one on one fist fight.
Syncing certain things in the video were unbelievably fun. Any instance I timed the Neo/Smith fight well was a joy. I loved syncing all the punches and water effects to the song's clashing. There were also a few accidental moments of syncing, such as the ship hitting two poles in time with the beat.
There is of course a very big problem for me in this video; the ending. I want to blame it one the fact that I was sick and I just wanted to be done, but the I had a pretty lame ending in the original version. There was just something about the way all the fights ended that I couldn't really grasp in showing well. It all seems a bit rushed in this video, as if I was ready to move on to the next video (which has been the case before).
Overall, this is another doodle in my sketch book. I learned some techniques and made a video that was somewhat enjoyable. I have gotten better at these things and without this video and its faults, I might not have learned.