One of the poorest sequels in recent memory! Absolutely terrible, and DULL DULL DULL.

Rating: Null/10 (18 November 2003)

I enjoyed 'The Matrix' enough to buy it, but while I thought it was an entertaining action movie, I didn't buy the ridiculous hype surrounding it. I'm much too familiar with Philip K. Dick, Robert Anton Wilson, Grant Morrison's mind-blowing comics "The Invisibles" and the other source material that inspired it to think that the Wachowski brothers are innovative thinkers. Now I'd avoided 'The Matrix Reloaded' until now because I'd been warned that it was a major disappointment, but I finally relented and watched it... Boy, BIG MISTAKE! I could never have guessed how terrible this was going to be. Easily the poorest sequel in recent memory. I can't think of ONE thing I liked about it. The three main characters from the original bored the crap out of me, all the new ones introduced were even LESS interesting, and the whole Zion thing, well, I couldn't care less what happened to these people. On top of that you have some of the most stilted and nonsensical dialogue you'll ever hear and I'm sick of saying this but it's true - CGI SUCKS! The two "big" set pieces, the car chase and the fight with multiple Agent Smiths, were just SO boring to me... If you want to see REAL excitement just compare the latter sequence to the Crazy 88 fight in 'Kill Bill'. I'm sorry I thought 'The Matrix Reloaded' was AWFUL. As I said, I think the first movie was overrated but it was still entertaining, and at least it had some ENERGY. But this! I had to force myself to sit through it until the end. DULL DULL DULL!