Awful beyond imagination but still manages to blind millions of fans from the truth

Rating: Null/10 (17 June 2003)

This movie is painful. Fast but still second-rate martial arts scenes, 1 surprisingly mediocre car chase scene, lots of 'nice' and not-so-'nice' special effects are the least of this films problems (but flaws nonetheless). Intolerable dialogue, and acting, and a pathetic excuse of a story is mashed convolutely in between seemingly exciting action scenes and scenes of boring 'nothingness' really, with all the uninteresting chitter-chatter you can handle, and then some.
The Wachowski's have done two things with this film- one surprising, one not so. Firstly, they've managed to make me hate, no despise, the first film (note to self:go see 1997's Dark City instead) which even in the most incompetent hands I didn't think anyone could do, but Kudos to you Wachowskis, Kudos to you. The less surprising thing they've managed to accomplish is having millions of die-hard fans convinced what they just payed for, and spent nearly 3 hours in the cinema for, was not only worth it, but was the greatest movie event of their lives. (A similar thing happened with LOTR, but any disdain I felt for either LOTR movies have been completely wiped away and replaced with this excuse for entertainment). People who call this the greatest WOULD piss me off more if I didn't know that (most) people like that, shallow as they are, change their opinion every few weeks or months, according to what's hot.