Where is the heart?

Rating: Null/10 (25 October 2003)

A while ago, I written a review on this movie when I saw it in the theater. Now that it's available for DVD I would like to revise a few things. As I was trying to watch it, I kept blinking out. No matter how hard I concentrated and how much I wanted to watch the movie, it just couldn't hold my interest and I now know why. The movie is lifeless. It has no soul. I compare it to watching your best friend play someone else on a video game and you are observing. Sure it's fun to them and for you it's semi-interesting, but after awhile you become bored with it because it doesn't involve you. The Matrix Reloaded doesn't bring it audience in with it. It doesn't seem like it is interested in presenting characters that you care about. Neo, Trinity, Morpheus and even Agent Smith are just cardboard cutout of their previous self from the previous movie. Morpheus and Neo have become deities (for lack of a better word) and Trinity is there in order to give Neo a purpose, but she doesn't do much. Zion, the last free city, doesn't seem like a city worth fighting for. It's more like an elaborate cave dwelling. But the one thing that stands out like a scab is the obvious looking fake scenes. Everything is so obvious CGI. At least the first film final battle seemed as if there was some serious since of urgency and danger. But this one hits you with so many stunts and CGI effects that after awhile, it becomes dull. I still give it props on what it is TRYING to achieve, but I have to toned down my earlier glowing remarks. Hopefully Revolutions can wrap things us for us and make this film a better film. I know it's a better film, but until Revolution comes out, the trees indeed are blocking the forest.