Hey, how 'bout a little more polish... and direction?

Rating: 5/10 (14 May 2003)

Matrix: Reloaded is a disappointment. It suffers from a poor story, gaping plot holes, too many directing styles, and too many conflicting cinematography styles. The acting wasn't all that great either.
The special effects are cool, but are at some points overdone, to the point where you have one big CG cluster romp on the the screen. There is some really poor directing, most notably the cheesy "action-zoom" as I call it. There were so many units and directors for those units that the direction has no.... direction... to it. The movie does not have the same cinematography style that the first did, instead it looks like your average action movie, whereas the first had a dirty, green tint to it that really added to the experience.
One part I liked, much like in Die Another Day, and as opposed to Attack of the Clones, is the length of the battles. In M:R and DAD, the fighting seemed to go on for just the right amount of time to be satisfying, whereas AotC the final battle would have been a masterpiece had it been a few minutes longer.
6/10...