my review (contains spoilers)

Rating: Null/10 (16 May 2003)

ok so far ive only read the first 100 or so reviews but i wanna take my shot. it seems those who focused on the effects gave this movie a high rating and those who focussed on plot gave it a low rating. it is my intention to use what most are using as a negative and turn it around in a positive light. people are hating the scenes in zion. i loved them. morpheus' speech, the club scene, the chancellor, etc despite slowing the movie down (hey you negative reviews were saying the fast parts didnt add anything to the plot) really spoke to me. they showed the religious fervor of the residents of zion and morpheus himself. now i give you the fishburne did mail in this performance, and if he had more of a feel of morpheus from matrix one, or the best one could hope for, the fishburne mentor role of higher learning, the film would have been better, but you need to realize how fanatical these people are about the oracle and the one. this is all to set up the last 20 minutes of the film. the goal of the wachowski bros. was always to create a new super hero franchise, but one where the hero was believable. the first matrix movie set the scene as to what the matrix was and just how powerful neo could be. this movie's goal seems to be two-fold. 1) to explain why all of the characters such as neo, the oracle, and the agents, are as they are, to get a feel for the motivations for all involved. 2) to pull away from the overused super-hero cliche of 10 billion people being nothing but damsels in distress while our hero saves the day again and again. the prophecy was nothing but human damage control, and now our heros, all of our heros, must fight tooth and nail for the salvation of what they believe to be their way of life. this is what i seem to gather from watching matrix 2 the first time, and after a few more viewings i may understand even better, but right now, i find myself 12 hours after leavingg the theater, still thinking about what happened, and that is a sure sign of a good movie. -don