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The first Matrix Movie tops my list of favorites, the second was done well enough to keep me waiting for the final. When I saw the the final, one time, I walked away thinking what a waste! I have both of the first two movies on DVD and will not be completing the set. This last "movie" was just STUPID! What where you guys thinking? With an established cast and foundation for greatness, there was potential to knock one out of the park. I would rather have teeth pulled than watch this disaster again. What a waste, so sad, such potential. *sigh*
It is very dissapointing
This movie was very dissappointing. The first one was good because it actually seemed like Neo was in some type of danger. Now he flies around like superman, can frfeesze bulets with a wave of his hand and is just immortal. The movie itself is very boring there is almost no fighting. And when there is a fight Neo always just blows them away with a wave of his hand. The only reason it got a star is because it's required. All in all the movie SUCKS. If your going to buy a movie but the original and thats the only good one in the series.
In some ways better, in others worse
3.5 stars, really
The Matrix Reloaded was a huge hit that I looked forward to intensely. I had thoroughly enjoyed the first installment and thought that the second would take the story to new dimensions. In some ways, the sequel far outdid the original. In terms of sheer adrenaline and eye-popping action, for instance. The patented bullet-time special effects return, but there's plenty of new eye-candy. The movie also offers even more insight into the Neo mythos. Nevertheless, the movie fails colossally in other areas. One need only mention the Neo-Trinity Romantic Chemistry (I am being ironic, of course: there was no chemistry) and the general self-importance of this more dark and stark film. In any case, what results is a mixed-bag that twists and turns unevenly to its enigmatic (and improbable) denouement.
'Reloaded' was a sequel that was destined to be made, and there are many parts of it that sparkle. The car chase scene, which pits Morpheus, Trinity and Co. against a duo of dreadlocked cyber-twins as well as a plethora of agents simultaneously on the 101 highway is one of the most jaw-dropping pieces of film that I have ever had the pleasure to see. It could quite possibly take the mantle as the most intense car chase scene ever. Bullitt, French Connection, I'm sorry, but your days on the throne are over. The sequence goes on for over 15 minutes, but it doesn't drag at all (unlike other parts). In fact, I would have liked plenty more. Another highlight is Anthony Zerbe's small role as a civil administrator in Zion. He added a nice bit of introspection into a movie that sometimes lacked it. The film had a number of fascinating secondary characters, including the keymaker, the mirolyngion (I have no idea how to spell it), the Architect ("God") and others. Speaking of the architect, his scene was the movie's most intriguing. He spoke so fast in some sort of mathspeak but he had a magnetic presence on the screen and his character remained a delightful mystery. Hugo Weaving was once again wonderful as renegade Agent Smith (although the much advertised fight scene with Neo against an army of Smiths was too long).
That seemed to be the central problem with this film. The Wachowskis, who had created a perfectly-paced action film in The Matrix, seemed to lose focus in some of the fight scenes. Most of them, while plenty mesmerizing, go on for far too long. The pacing of the film itself is uneven, the movie starts, then stops for exposition, then starts up again. The Zion sequence is much too long (seeing a pattern?) and the 'rave' scenes are repetivive and gratuitous. Trinity and Neo are not at all convincing as a couple, perhaps less convincing than that venerable couple from Star Wars, episode 2: Darth Vader and the Queen; even less convincing than Hemingway's duo in A Farewell to Arms. At least in the other two they said that they loved each other, however unconvincingly. I never for a second believed that Neo, with all his responsibility for his race, would give it all up for the girl, and this greatly hurt the film in my mind. Speaking of Neo, Keanu Reeves loses the tolerability, okay, likeability that he had in the first installment. He is cold as ice all the way through, no emotion or passion evident. And even more annoying was his continued flying. He became a deus ex machina whenever anyone was in peril, spending more time in midair than spouting meaningful dialogue. Too bad. All the way up to the supposedly cliffhanger ending he just seemed like he had lost touch with the character.
In short, this is a film that took some risks, some of which worked out and some of which didn't. The movie was entertaining, of course, and philosophically interesting (albeit less so than its predecessor), yet its characters don't quite come alive the same way. The producers just didn't know when to say when throughout the film, and as a result the movie seems somewhat bloated. It does, however, work as a film and as a sequel and is definitely worth checking out.
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