Another potentially great movie ruined by Hollywood hack writers.

Rating: 6/10 (21 May 2003)

*minor spoilers*
When will they get it... No amount of CGI effects can create suspence, tension, relief and joy in a movie. Hollywood screenwrites just don't get what they call in theater the "willing suspense of disbelief" which means that an audience is willing to believe the impossible or improbably but *only to a certain point*.
I can believe that they can hack the matrix to get superpowers. I can believe it when I see a cool CGI column of numbers turn into a person. I *can't* believe it when Neo fights a hundred Agent Smiths in an admittedly cool (if overlong) fight and then FLIES AWAY. What the hell was that all about? Throughout the movie he and others do this at any time...but they don't!
I can't believe it when characters stop in the middle of a fight to deliver a snappy one liner. I can't believe that a ragtag group of rebels would stand around in a dark room with cool designer shades on (there were no ray ban stores in sight..no hair stylists or tailor shops either). Or how about *fighting* with dark sunglasses. There were many times when I was quietly laughing or saying 'give me a break' to myself.
Please, *please* movie makers...if you're going to spend a couple hundred million on a screenplay...lose some of the effects and hire a whole team of great screenwriters to write out all of this unbelievable garbage. Some better actors would be good too...although it is probably hard for any actor or actress to be taken seriously with some of those lines...You will still make money if you make it more realistic...more of it probably! More importantly you'll be making good films.
I give this a generous 6 our of 10 stars because I like some of the jumbled philosophy and hey the fight scenes and effects were cool.