Over the top

Rating: 6/10 (17 May 2003)

I had such high expectations of the movie that it could only disappoint me. And it did. Of course the action scenes are overwhelming and never seen anywhere before, but it is just too much. After five minutes we've seen all the kung-fu moves there are. Why the **** do they all fight like Bruce-Lee? If Neo can stop bullets with his hands, he has such a great momentum in his arms/hands that he should be able to erase a person with a single blow of his arm. And not be fighting for minutes. The whole movie thrives on two action scenes, of which the last is, though cinematic-technically brilliant, stupid. Why would they chase each other in cars if, for example, the 'ghost twins' can fly. I mean there are a lot of these inconsequent things ( it is a matrix, a visualisation of numbers in which every move and position can be predicted, so there is no need to chase or fight each other, the outcome is already known). But overall, I enjoyed the last hour of the film most and there are some nice ideas displayed. I like the corridor with 'back doors' idea. The first 30 minutes are sometimes toe-bending (what is that in english?) I mean very sh**ty. Like the pseudo-psychological nonsense of Morpheus and that whole Zion party that looked like one big 'Bacardi commercial.'