What the heck?!?

Rating: Null/10 (22 June 2003)

I consider myself a great fan of the first Matrix Movie. So my expectations to the sequel were quite high. I was disappointed.
The Story in my opinion is trash. The first movie really got that special "kick" from the story. You got great action sequences, a good story, and some philosophical themes to think of.
Well to me it looks like the directors thought "well it worked so well the first time lets try it again" and packed a whole load of philosophical "stuff" and story elements into it. For me it just didn't work out. All the elements are not linked together and are highly confusing (especially the dialogue with the "Matrix Creator" ask 4 people about it and be sure that you will get 4 different explanations).

Well lets get to the highlight of this movie: The action sequences. They easily the best ones ever made. The often mentioned Neo-Smith sequence with "its computerish" look didn't really bother me. What is much worse in my eyes that those sequences mostly didn't make any sense. It's like Neo walks in a room and the first thing he does is beating up somebody. The fight sequences didn't evolve from the story, they were just there. Talking, fighting, talking, fighting, talking, fighting.
Finally if you loved Matrix you will watch Matrix Reloaded anyways. If you don't belong to that group think twice before you watch it.