Anticipation can be dangerous

Rating: Null/10 (15 May 2003)

Let's be clear at the outset. I am a huge fan of, well, the Matrix. That is to say, The Matrix. I am not, I regret to say, a huge fan of the Reload. Gravity defying kung-fu fights are cool; overly long repetitive gravity defying kung-fu fights are not. Kicking multiple Agent Smiths around is cool.....at first. Kicking multiple Agent Smiths around, and around,... and around..... and then flying off is not especially cool. Listening to Morpheus pontificate in a sort of Zen drone barely started off cool, and quickly descended into the Hollywood version of benign zealotry. Unless something really cool is planned for them in Episode 3 (The Matrix strikes back), what was the point of the Euro-Trash and his evil princess? Trinity, jealous? Are they kidding? Lest you think otherwise, the movie wasn't a waste of money. I enjoyed the special effects, and I settled for watching the film as eye-candy. That worked, just don't expect that the movie will enthrall in the way the Matrix did.