More of the same

Rating: 6/10 (1 October 2008)

This endless story of The Matrix has got here one further episode. The only merit of this movie consists of a series of well made sequences (computer made) which are breathtaking indeed and very successful. But I don't include in these the long, dull, boring and repetitive ballets of martial arts fights already much seen and reseen in this kind of movies without bringing anything new or original. This story of two parallel worlds (with ubiquitous characters present sometimes in them both at same time) is told in a confusing and incoherent way (even taking for granted the fanciful movie script itself) which is aggravated by some speeches of cheap philosophy like those uttered by such characters as Merovingian or The Architect the latter near the end of the movie. When we get to the end we realize that the story is not finished yet and another movie is announced with more of the same. Well, if it were not for the good technical direction we would have here a negligible movie that intrinsically is neither better nor worse than the average movies of this kind.