The Matrix Overloaded

Rating: Null/10 (15 May 2003)

If you are reading this review you are like countless others who have waited four years for this event. You wouldn't be at this site researching if you didn't want to double check others opinions. So fellow imdb user, you want to hear hype. Sorry you will get none for matrix 2.
Think of it this way. 135 minutes of running time. The first 75 minutes is dialogue and a little bit of action. The next 60 minutes is super duper action. Watching it in the 3rd row of a packed theatre in Chicago, it was almost too much. Gaeta keeps the camera spinning around the characters, that you think you are in an "ER" episode gone awry. Constant circling of Neo fighting 100 Agent Smith's in the Burly Brawl.
I wanted some closure with the fight scenes. It was this constant hit, hit, hit, deflect, deflect, deflect...and both combatants are still standing because each is impervious.
What gave Matrix 1 the edge is that Neo kept evolving with his powers. Like when he fought Smith the first time and broke his glasses. Or of course the final scene when he could "see" the Matrix and destroyed Smith. How come the story didn't develop that aspect? It would have been more intriguing in this reviewer's opinion that if he were able to reach the "Architect" he could then master a new move or see the Matrix in a new way...since this is just an overblown video game.
In regards to the dialogue, it reminds me of a scene from "Amadeus" where when the court conductor explains to Mozart that his opera contains "too many notes". Mozart was dumbfounded. This movie has "too many words". A perfect example that the Wajchowski's were given absolute license without anyone "destroying their vision". Don't worry Larry and Andy...you'll understand your blunder of not using an editor once the word of mouth gets out about this train wreck.
Save your money. Wait for DVD. Lightning in a bottle is hard too catch a second time.