Story lacks originality, hammy acting and dialogue.

Rating: Null/10 (28 May 2003)

Matrix was cool, the sequel sucks. Some of the dialogue is the worst I've ever encountered. The originality and freshness of the first film are gone as the sequel steals from movies such as Planet of the Apes, Superman and Terminator. This movie has tons of cheesy scenes. A word of warning, some of the following may be percieved as spoilers. One of the cheesiest ideas is the Keymaker. Finding the Keymaker is one of Neo's main quests in Matrix Reloaded. The Keymaker turns out to be, you would never guess it, a key maker just like you would find at your local hardware store! Unreal!!! Even a 5 year old kid would do better than that! Somebody actually got paid millions of dollars to come up with this sort of crap! Monica Bellucci shows up in one of the stupidest scenes I've ever seen, where she coerces Neo to kiss her in front of Trinity. If he doesn't kiss her then she won't cough up the info Neo needs to find the Keymaker. The catch is that the kiss must feel like he genuinely loves her, he needs to kiss her as passionately as he would kiss Trinity. How could anybody think that this scene would look anything but idiotic. The entire film reeks of directors gone wild with a bunch of super-stupid ideas and no one there to stop them. Avoid this film like the pest.