Am I alone here?

Rating: 1/10 (18 May 2003)

Watching this movie for me was the cinematic equivalent of being dumped. I loved the first Matrix. I came into theater saying "I love you!" "Be good to me" and it spit in my face. The first Matrix was dark, mysterious, suspenseful, and surprising. The Matrix reloaded had nothing to offer me but rehashed, unmotivated special effects, mind-numbingly boring tirades about good programs, bad programs, free programs, and a layer of philosophical waxing that falls just below fortune cookies in my hierarchy of relevance. Don't tell me you're thinking about philosophical questions, make me question them by rocking my world like you did in the first one. I can not believe they did not show Neo free one mind. That's what I want to see. I want to see Neo become like Morpheus. He should be teaching people how to fight like him. I don't care about Link, or Morpheus' love triangle (which was horribly written) or some 15 minute orgy in Zion. What the hell, was that????? Even the special effects were not special. Granted a few were cool, but I didn't care. When Neo finds the ability to dodge bullets in the first one, that is a huge accomplishment. Nothing here is an accomplishment. No suspense means you can fight 100 agent Smiths and it doesn't mean anything. There is no way to express in 250 words how much I hated this movie. I'm still reeling from the ball crushing experience of seeing this film.