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Rating: 9/10 (21 November 2003)

SPOILERS
I was genuinely anticipating the second installment of the Matrix trilogy. I was expecting, once again, to be exhilarated beyond my wildest dreams. But instead I was bored witless. I expected to see fights with Smith and Neo every twenty minutes or so, instead there was mostly talking all the way through the film.
I will grant it a few good things though. The special effects are still real-to-life, the gunplay is still good as well as the fight scenes. But there was just to much talk and not enough blasting. I was also expecting to see Niobe (played by Jada Pinkett Smith) in action, to which I was badly disappointed. The film is more about Neo and his quest to save Trinity from a dark and sticky end. Once again Hugo Weaving steals the show with his excellent performance as Smith.
Probably my best scenes are the fight with the thousands of Smiths and the Highway chase in which you get to see Morpheus fighting with an agent atop a huge truck and Trinity on a motorcycle speeding down rush hour lane.
Overall, disappointing.