Heaven help me...

Rating: 2/10 (2 June 2003)

...for Gods sake it's over.
I really was never a big Matrix fan from the beginning. The first movie was kind of cool, but the story was by far not that new - to be honest, reality not being reality has been a well known Science Fiction concept for over 50 years.
But there had to be a sequel - big money was waiting. So no matter how thin the story was in the first installment of this series - the Wachowski Brothers succeeded in providing even less story and putting together a movie which consists of two main "devices":

Endless (and after a while incredibly boring) Kung Fu fighting scenes

Tons of utterly meaningless monologues by nearly every character but Neo.

While the action sequences in spite of their seeming endlessness sometimes had an entertaining element in them, the monologues really made me (and many viewers around me as I could hear) yawning. I still can hardly believe what a huge amount of total gibberish the Wachowskis expect us to swallow in Matrix: Reloaded. It seemed that every time they did not know how to explain what was going on, they chose to say: "It's destiny". But when you sit in a movie theatre and have to listen to ridiculous characters from Jacques Chirac to Sigmund Freud talking about nothing but destiny - then that particular story device is certainly overused... and the Rocky Horror Picture Show comes to mind: "Booooooring!"
All in all I was very disappointed and totally unnerved. Do I believe in destiny? Well, I believe in entertainment, and this movie certainly is not entertaining - at all!