The Matrix Unloaded

Rating: Null/10 (14 May 2003)

I would have said this movie is okay, but I have been given the equivalent of a slap in the face: no one gives me a "To Be Continued" and expects the gloves to stay on. I encourage everyone, be they man, woman, child, animal, vegetable, or mineral to spend their money elsewhere then on a movie ticket for this thing. I expect "To Be Continued" when I am watching some pointless sitcom on television, throwing this into a film is just wrong. Your time and money should be valuable enough to expect some sense of resolution after spending two hours with a film. I don't care if a movie is two hours long or six hours long, I want to feel that I have accomplished something besides indebting myself another movie ticket to see the ending. This is a disgrace. A hard wipe to the credits would have been a thousand times more tactful.
That being said I must take a deep breath and tell you my other thoughts on this piece of work (It's a piece of something all right). At best, this is just a screensaver of action sequences. This would be okay if they did not pause every five seconds as if my computer were freezing up. It's as if the filmmakers did not think we could understand a car being smashed without seeing it occur over about five minutes. Action is action, and slow action is BOOOOOOOORRING. The rest of the film is a feeble attempt to coble a story together. You can throw in every word in the dictionary and use every trick of circular reasoning to try to make it seem intelligent, but no one is fooled: you could drive a truck through the plot holes in this movie. There are loose ends beyond count, and even one should be a travesty. I give this movie a to be continued.