...made me angry

Rating: 2/10 (18 May 2003)

For the first time ever, my husband and I left a movie feeling angry. We loved the first Matrix and looked forward to seeing Reloaded, but the ending was a cheat. At the ending, someone in the audience said "What!?", in surprise that that the whole movie had only been part of a cliffhanger and didn't make a whole lot of sense standing as a single feature. (Understandably, you have to see The Matrix for background to even have a clue of what Reloaded is about. ...but it seems to have to see the next sequel in this cliffhanger to understand was *this* movie was about. ...there were way too many disjointed statements and loose ends for most audience members to keep up.)
Anyway, just to be sure we weren't the only ones feeling angry, I asked another couple walking to the parking lot. They agreed. The movie made *them* angry and they agreed it was, on the whole, a cheat.
My theory is that the producers are so into cross-marketing the video game and Powerade, etc. that they forgot to give us a good movie. (Our navy son said he only understood the movie because he had bought the video game. In fact, MUCH of the action in the movie *felt* like a video game - a little over the top to be sci-fi believeable.)
Also, though the action scenes were good, most scenes ran way too long. When I began to get *bored* with the highway chase scene, with it's muliple high-impact crashes and 18-wheeler roof fights, I knew the scene has just run too long. I also got bored with the mulitple agent fight. ...too long.