Good and Strikingly Similar SPOILER

Rating: 8/10 (21 May 2003)

SPOILER
Well I saw the film today and thorougly enjoyed my experience. I thought the fight scenes were incredible especially when there were all of the agent smiths and Neo kicked their asses with that bar. I have a few negative comments to make but I want to emphasize that this is still one of the best movies i have seen in a long time.
First off, i would like to deal with the matter of the lack of originality of the film. 1) Why is it that it seems that every movie made after 2000 has car chase scenes? I thought it was great eye candy and all, but why?...why did they find their ways to cars...it just seemed like it was written in to fit the current mold of movie pop culture. The same was true when trinity got on the motor cycle...it was like..yeah..like we didnt see that one coming..and do they REALLY keep gas in those cars/bikes they transport on trucks...hmmm... 2) I thought the entire color and lighting sceme as well as the way the council interacted was strikingly similar to Star Wars Episode II Attack of the Clones. 3) I thought the ending was also strikingly similar to the ending of Star Wars Episode V The Empire Strikes Back. It seemed like the entire movie was similar to empire strikes back in that the machines were striking back but the fact that Empire Strikes back ends with Luke, rehabilitating with his new arm in a white room of a space ship with the evil still lurking on the distant planet with Leia by his side was strikingly similar to Neo's laying on a white table in a white room with evil on the table next to him and Trinity by his side. 4) Of course it is dificult to not be similar to the Terminator Movies because both deal with machines taking over humans in the future but come on..i mean an organized resistance movement with a leader like Neo that everyone looks up to and knows the same way they know John Connor...lets get serious.
More general problems: 1) OKay...not to criticize too much but sheesh...that whole sex sequence was just disgusting. I found that during that part my brow frowned and i began to wonder why this was happening. I mean nearly seeing Keanuo Reeve's ass was not appreciated in any way whatsoever. That gets back to copying the same type of love sequence between Han and Lea in Return of the Jedi... So maybe a love story is necessary for an epic...but still i dont think it is necessary to see man ass! 2) The same was true with the whole sexual tribal attitude of the dancing people of Zion(why did they choose this name...i mean i know zion means homeland or whatever but still...the whole time i was thinking about israel and bob marley). The entire thing looked like brittney spears' slave video and took away from the film. And it didnt really explain how all of a sudden Morpheus is such a celebrity. And i agree with the other guy that said that he seemed too much like Yoda except that he never took a break to make a joke. hey..i like jokes so go ahead and put them in. 3) The special effects were amazing no doubt...but since i am being an anal little nerd about this i feel compelled to point out that at times the people looked quite fake. You can tell by when their movements suddenly become a little too fluid such as when Neo flies around with the bar. and another thing..why the hell doesnt he just rocket himself and knock all those b*****ds over anyways?! 4) Why did the architect think he was so damn smart. He pretended to use all this expanded vocabulary that was quite unessesary and was not even all that profound anyways. If you are going to try to sound so studious and only use words of at leaste 2 sylables that end in "ility" or whatever then go ahead and use words people actually dont know. It just makes the writer sound like he needs a vocab check because there were no words in that thing that i didnt know, it just took a while to understand his sentences because they were all run ons and he talked too fast. but i did like the going in and out of screens and stuff 5) I enjoy seeing the picture when it is all green code...they could've done more of that. Why doesnt Neo use his healing power more often? 6) Since when is Neo Jesus?!?!!?! Masses of people in tattered clothing were flocking to him like Jesus and he stayed to heal them...wtf?...writers you got some splainin to do! 7) Where did that general guy and the whole rest of the council come from? I never heard of there being all those people that had been freed before and if it had actually happened in betweeen films as inferred by morphius when he says something like they have freed as many people in 6 months as 6 years then why didnt it explain that more? 8) Overall it seemed like this movie was more about the eye candy of action scenes and attempting to connect the first and last films together than anything else,..so director brothers, if that was your mission, then more power to you I would like to conclude by saying it thought that French chick was damn hot and i think Neo should switch her up for trinity...im sure there will be some sort of struggle like that in the third film. I thought the movie kicked ass and everyone should definitly see it. I was thorougly entertained and suspended in awe throughout the duration and commend the makers for an excellent job. I also thank anyone who is still reading...its been a long road to finish this critique but i think im ready to call it quits. Thank you for your time.
Until we meet again, Chris Wadsworth, USA (if you are looking for an awesome guitar player send me an email!!!)