Over-Hyped Action Fest.

Rating: 2/10 (13 October 2003)

I'll start with the plus points...The action scenes in this film are up there with the be stand the special effects can't be called bad. Sadly that's where the good bits end. This film is terrible. The acting isn't great [the one-liners are laughable], the plot is poor and the script[!], awful! I don't think there's anyone out there who understood what was said by the Oracle and the Architect or why they said it. The Bullet Time sequence with Trinity looks horrible and why, oh why, was it shown 3 times?! [answers on a postcard please]. As was Trinity's motorcycle fight [again, answers on a postcard]. The whole Neo being able to fly idea is just stupid and the whole rave/orgy scene in Zion is the pinnacle of patheticness. Speaking of patheticness, at the end when Neo removes the bullet from trinity, that could possibly be one of most appauling scenes in cinema history...Right up there with the whole dodgy French guy scene.
The amount of anticipation that preceeded this film, and the amount of expectation that fans of the first film held, was increased cleverly by Joel Silver and co. because I think this film must have relied the hype to gain it's box office takings, as it definitly falls well short of what i call "entertainment". So overall, a much hyped successful failure - as hordes of people went to see it and so it generated lots of money making it a success for the production company, but i don't think that the majority of viewers will be rushing to buy the DVD. Oh, and i'm just going to add that Revolutions looks poor too.