Hopeless People Can't Dance

Rating: 8/10 (7 April 2007)

The one thing everybody seems to agree on is that the Rave scene was unnecessary. I beg to differ. We'd only heard about Zion in the first film. In this one, we see the city itself, but only a smattering of its purported 250,000 citizens at first, so we needed to see what the stakes were: Ergo, a massive gathering. After they've been given the news that they might all be dead within the next day or so, we needed to see that they haven't lost hope, yet keep them together in the same space, rather than let them disperse and find their own fun activities. Well, pretty much the only display of unity that can be performed with athleticism by an individual in-place while standing shoulder-to-shoulder with thousands of others is dancing.... Club-style! (Tango & Waltz take up too much room!) And hopeless people can't dance! Next time you're feeling suicidal, give it a whirl, you'll see what I mean.
I actually found the kiss between Neo & Persephone to be more objectionable.
(Oh, and if Neo & Trinity hadn't made love the night before the Big Battle, I'd've never fully believed that there was a physical attraction between those two.)