A hard one to judge.

Rating: 8/10 (23 June 2004)

Neo: Why are you here? The Oracle: Same reason. I love candy.
Everybody was shocked and surprised after they saw The Matrix (1999). It had an amazing opening, jaw-dropping special effects and an original plot to die for. Agent Smith (Hugo Weaving) became a well known modern bad-guy and Keanu Reeves was turned in to a true Hollywood star. I'd doubt that anyone hated the first film. It was just far too unique and amazing and could be compared to the likes of Star Wars. Now it seems the sole film will become a trilogy within a year, and the question many people are asking is if it was a decent idea. The Matrix: Reloaded answers any questions you have about the film. What was the answer?
A new plot is started in Reloaded. As told in The Matrix, there is only one surviving human city named Zion. Zion is heavily relied on as it preserves 250,000 humans who survived the start of the war (Machine VS Man). The story of Reloaded begins in the mini series, Animatrix. A ship and it's crew, named Osiris, are chased up to the surface of Earth where they find the machines are beginning to drill down towards Zion along with 250,000 sentinel machines. One sentinel for each human. The Osiris crew quickly alarm Zion before falling from sentinel attacks. This is where the film, Reloaded, starts. While on their way back to Zion, Neo (played by Keanu Reeves) begins to have dreams of his lover's (Trinity played by Carrie Anne Moss) fate, which doesn't seem to be a great one. Morpheus (played my Laurence Fishburne) begins to rely on the proficy to save mankind from the threat the machines are sending, and a time limit is set for how long they have to save Zion. Unfortunately for Neo, Morpheus believes Neo is the only person who can save Zion, as Neo, now The One, has complete power over The Matrix. And so they set off on their adventure, meeting new enemies and even more Agents and introducing a new operator named Link.
Reloaded takes a while to start the action, beginning with a 30 minute segment where Zion and other crews are introduced to the viewer. But once the 30 minutes are over the viewer is pretty munched, with Neo, dropped in to an all action movie with kung-fu fighting, inspired by comics and other films, and the greatest special effects and CGI you will ever see in a decade. There are fight scenes which honestly could compete for the greatest film scenes ever. However, it seems the movie has been slightly hyped up. There are some scenes which seem to go on forever, pretty much explaining every single little detail about what the film's based around and having static lectures for roughly 10 minutes, which isn't really very thrilling at all. I also realized, except for Neo's dreams of Trinity's fate always flashing back, there never seems to be much suspense. The end is also slightly confusing for the dim-minded.. As well as putting on a cliff-hanger which will make you want to swear at the Wachowski Brothers. Although most of the action scenes make up for this anyway.
I honestly don't think i can judge this film properly, as the follow up to it (named The Matrix: Revolution) needs to explain what the hell was going on in Reloaded as the plot simply just cuts off at the end with a nice "To be concluded" message. Reloaded has many ups and downs. Mostly ups, but the downs are quite big mistakes. However, i don't feel let down because i understand what was happening. While the action may of been excessive, it was all beautiful and amazingly crafted. None of it could be predicted, so came as a large surprise. BUT, there's too much static discussion and the story is incomplete which may let down people a lot.