I liked it better the first time, when it was called Â‘Superman'

Rating: 4/10 (19 May 2003)

***Spoilers contained in this rant*** The most over-hyped movie I can think of in the last few years. An unoriginal, uninspiring action flick. I did not misunderstand it. I knew going in that it didn't have an ending and would be continued, that did not bother me (The LOTR didn't have an ending either and I liked it). The fact that it did not have a plot and relied completely on the first movie for everything is what bothered me. With the whole "What is the Matrix?" gimmick out of the way, what's left? Not much is the answer.
It's funny is how a film with no story is so full of pseudo intellectualism. The endless parade of new characters to explain what just happened if you're too stupid to `get it.' I got it alright; I just didn't care by that point. A feel sorry for the actor who played the French guy for all the hate mail I'm sure he'll receive. I hate to think of how much money was wasted on filming the chocolate cake scene.
Several of the fight scenes looked as if they had been lifted straight from a video game. The Matrix fight scenes were fresh when it came out, but now that so many movies like MI2 or Charlie's Angles have copied the fighting style we need something more to impress us. I feel that computer animated sfx should help a movie, but movies that rely on it entirely bore me. Why even get actors to play the part? What's the point? It looked so much like a cartoon too often and when it didn't it looked like a rip off of another movie: Superman, T2, Die Hard, etc. The party and sex scene made me feel as if I was watching a video on MTV.
At the end I burst into laughter as Neo (who swooped in ala Superman) tries to massage Trinity's heart to bring her back to life. I felt like yelling, `Why don't you just fly around the Earth backwards?!' since it looked like he was massaging her breast with the computer animation. Plus, she was dying of a bullet wound, not a heart attack!
The whole time I was jealous of the people I saw asleep because I was so bored but not tired enough to go sleep!