Jigga What?

Rating: 6/10 (16 May 2003)

First off, if you haven't seen this movie see it. Make sure you judge for yourself what you think of, it this is imperaitive with ALL films, if you have the time.
**May Contain Spoilers**
Jigga What? Can anybody please tell me what was going on during that whole trance-like rave/sex scene. Hell, i think the future put forward in the Terminator movies is less bleak. The speech by Morpheus in the caves was weak, seemed insincere and overdone, i felt like i was watching Jim Carey re-enact a Churchill spech. I definitely expected more from him.
One thing i liked about the first was it that everything made sense!!! I understand that they "feel" couldn't fit everything in to a three hour segement, and i like to thank them for not making us sit through a extended version of the Postman, but that's no excuse for giving us two and 1/2 hours to simply set up for the next movie.
Keenu Reeves should have somehow been replaced. The only reason he fit in the first one is because he is clueless, not because he's good at acting clueless, and he should stay out of any movies that require more then one facial expression.
One thing this movie did was make me appericiate the soundtrack of the original. The music during the most of the fight scenes literally sucks, in my opionion. The fight with a thousand agents seemed so lacking for this reason.
Wait, there were two reasons that scene seemed lacking, the other was that it eventually turned into merely a cgi movie. This is one way which both the recent starwars movies and reloaded disappoint me. Many Modern filmmakers have begun using cgi for almost eveything. I remember one scene in the beginning of Phantom mence where our heroes have escaped thier first brush with death in a fairly kick ass scene only to cut to a cgi image of them droping simply from an airduct which could have easily been done with a stuntman and an airbag. This just makes it seem so tacky. Yes, i am sorry we can tell what's cgi and what's not. The same thing for the "unprecedented" chase scene in reloaded. As one other reviewer put, that's why Ronin's is so cool. Every car you see smashed.....is smashed!!!
As far as special FX, i don't think there's nothing really new(unless i missed something) and if you want martial arts go see Tom Cruise's "The Last Samuri"...please don't take that seroiusly. One final complant....why, why, why would you ever end a movie with "to be concluded"? That tacky phrase is meant for bad tv minis.
In the end i gave this a 6/10...maybe i still love the last one too much or i'm hoping that the next one will make all the philos bullcrap make some sorta sense. I was generally entertained, and besides did you really expect it to be a revolution in filmmaking? maybe you did ......to be concluded......