This movie has no right to be so good!

Rating: Null/10 (15 May 2003)

This movie is better than the original. This movie is better than 95% of the movies out there right now. This movie is cooler than anything that is on the big screen right now. This movie is the visual synthesis of a pure testosterone drip. For those of you who didn't quite follow what I just said, this is one of the best films I have ever seen in my life. Before seeing it, I was afraid that it might be just a bunch of disconnected, unnecessary kung-fu sequences strung together by something that might kindly be called a plot. I thought that since everyone knew that it was going to be a monster success no matter what it contained, they may have focussed more on the coolness than on the story (which, while the effects and kung-fu were awesome, it was always the story that kept me coming back to the film over and over again). Fortunately, I was wrong in my suspicions. If anything, this movie has more; story to it than the last one. We get to find out more about the Matrix itself, Zion, the human resistance, and the characters that we came to love in the first film. If there was a rating higher than five stars, I would give it a rating higher than five stars.