Boring and pretentious

Rating: 3/10 (28 May 2003)

Quite frankly, I was bored out of my mind. When is someone going to identify this as a pretentious and noisy piece of claptrap? Granted, the original was fresh and interesting in concept, but the joke --- or hoax --- is over. I thought the freeway sequence was insufferable. At no time during the movie was I enlightened, intrigued, amused or ---dare I say --- entertained. Nor did I find any passion or humanity in the film. It's not completely empty, just about 90%. Will it be successful? Sure. But look for the grosses to go down on Matrix #3. There will be many viewers like myself who, in the words of Sam Goldwyn, will want to be "included out."