Not up to the original

Rating: 5/10 (20 May 2003)

First, there was way too much hype about this film...and it definitely does not live up to the hype. I guess I could sum up my feelings in a single word: " Disappointment"...I'm disappointed that the Wachowski brothers took a brilliant movie, decided after it became a hit that it was actually a trilogy, and then bastardized the concept into this lame mish mash of semi-philosphical lectures and video game quality CGI fights. If I want to see CGI characters duking it out I'll play a video game, not go to a movie...
"Disappointed" that the fights in "the Matrix" that seemed so different and, well, cool, have been rendered incomprehensible by trying to take them to the nth degree...instead of "cool" we have a confusing mish-mash of characters bashing each other around in a huge, and rather pointless, melee...and lets face it, they couldn't be any more obviously computer generated - all that was needed was a "player status bar" and score to complete the video game feel...
All in all, an unworthy followup to a great movie.