Unnecessary continuation of a film that wasn't quite as good as some thought

Rating: 4/10 (27 February 2015)

Heavy philosophy mixed with great action sequences turns out to be no equal to old fashioned gun play and boy's-only adventure in this unnecessary and frankly boring continuation of The Matrix story.
All of the original cast return so that they can have fun at a huge orgy/ rave party in Zion and then run around the matrix having cool car chases and great fighting action while Neo makes out with an especially gorgeous looking Monica Belucci and then takes on 5 million different versions of Agent Smith before having a really weird conversation with a computer program, who reveals that Neo is the sixth "one" and that Zion has been destroyed 6 times (if he's the sixth wouldn't that make it 5 times?). And he has god powers to kill sentinels in the real world. By film's end, Agent Smith has escaped into our world using a human (!) and Zion is about to be destroyed.
This film was a real event when it came out and did great box office, but the third film didn't do so well, and I'd have to think just how underwhelming this was played a big part. Many people point out that this one and Matrix: Revolutions are basically one movie split in two, so you should watch both before you can fully judge their collective worth, but I just don't accept that argument. The same year this came out, we also had Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill split into two films which were both very different and good movies. In this case we get a lot cool action, a lot of daft philosophy and not really much to like.
Post script: to be fair, I rewatched Revolutions. After seeing both films I can state as a matter of observational science, that they both sucked. This never should have been a series.