not enough and too much

Rating: 6/10 (15 May 2003)

Remember Back to the Future, Part 2? Remember how it seemed to serve no purpose other then to set up the cliffhanger for the third part? Well, here you have the same, a little shinier, a little louder, but still just a glorified cliffhanger. ...too much Zion silliness. The opening half hour could simply be cut from the movie, and the sex scene between Neo and Trinity seemed more like an excuse to show Carrie-Anne Moss' butt then an expression of actual feeling. ...too much zen mastering from Morpheus. ...too much eye candy. You read that right. The first Matrix struck a very fine balance in the action scenes between what was possible and what was just outside of possible. Seeing Neo fly around like Superman is a little to far outside of that, as is him fighting 100 Smith's. Cool, yes. Good, no. ...not enough mystery. The first Matrix was a story of Neo discovering who he was, among other things. Now that Neo is god, what do you do with him? Turn him into a comic book super hero, apparently. ...not enough plot. Between sweaty church raves, emotionless sex, dialouge reminicent of a middle school Hamlet, rougue programs who of course chose to be french, more silly dialouge, headache inducing action scenes, and more stilted dialouge during the headache inducing action scenes there is about 5 minutes of story. And even THAT isn't very good.
Oh well. Give me the blue pill. Please.