Laughable

Rating: 1/10 (25 May 2003)

POSSIBLE SPOILERS I enjoyed the original Matrix, not as much as some, but it was a good film. The idea of the film was excellent and it established itself as one of the better films of the sci-fi genre. I went to see Reloaded expecting similar things.
Of course this is Hollywood and like most sequels to a successful film you are going to get an over the top, bigger budget film. This was inevitable. But what made the original Matrix stand out was it's clever story. Reloaded totally ruins the whole concept of the first without really moving the plot, if there is much of one left, forward at all. All we establish in this is that Neo being 'The One's only real benefit is that he can now do Superman impressions and that it will not be so easy for him to save Zion after all.
The freeway sequence is commendable but this like all the other action sequences lasts too long. I found myself laughing out loud as one poor plot device after another came along. I simply could not understand what the Richard Attenborough lookalike in the room full of swearing Neos on TV screens was saying because I was laughing so hard. Also did anyone notice the old guy at Zion making the point to Neo that old men like him never make any points! I detect a slight contradiction there.
Somewhere in the last few years the Wachowski's lost the plot, quite literally, and Revolutions needs to be some film to save this shambles.