Disappointing

Rating: 6/10 (17 May 2003)

I thought it was nowhere as good as the original, and was a pretty bad movie in itself.
*minor spoilers*
The first hour and a bit was full of repetitious fight scenes that quickly got boring, and didn't really advance the plot at all. I guess I'll be one of the few who found the 100+ Agent Smith vs Neo scene to be completely superfluous.... he just flies away at the end? Why didn't he do that at the start?
But I have to say that after they found the keymaker, the movie took a turn for the better (freeway chase :D). Pity it took them so damn long to get there, and a pity this scene was one of the few good ones of the entire movie!
Then things get confusing. I thought I basically understood what was going on, but then the movie just ends? So everyone walks out, uttering a collective "what the....", having to wait another six months for all the events at the end to be clarified in Revolutions. This cliffhanger fails its purpose of making people "excited" for the next film, it just makes people irritated that the movie built up to a spectacular finale... that wasn't there.
Very disappointing. 5.5/10
I'll still, of course, see Revolutions, but my expectations for it have been lowered somewhat.