A magnificent film spectacle

Rating: 10/10 (7 June 2001)

This is a movie where it seems that the whole and the sum of the parts are different and yet are both big. The story is often confusing but not irritating and one wonders about its flow at moments. Yet it is never boring and always has something new to draw you into it. It is difficult to sum it up as a whole. Some of its parts: 1. The Chinese desert - simply breathtaking and different from any other desert seen on film. 2. The cities - those aerial views are something else! 3. The fights - the action scenes in "The Matrix" were great and original; the ones here are incredible and way beyond those. A must-see movie, for the story or the cinematography or any of its parts. I regret seeing it so late in its showings locally, as I wanted to see it again. It is hard to imagine it being so effective on a TV screen.