Visually stunning, intentionally confusing, lacking in real drama.

Rating: 5/10 (15 May 2003)

Reloaded boasts lots of spectacularly well choreographed kung fu fighting, gun fights and chases. The film is beautiful to look at and offers up a convoluted plot that after some initial dragging (including an embarrassingly out of place extended dance sequence) takes off at an accelerated pace. It introduces some interesting characters and puts all the players through a physical and mental wringer. After Morpheus makes all his dour pronouncements and a new character, the Architect gives an amazingly incomprehensible speech, the audience is left to wonder just what the @#$% is actually going on. That might be fun for some, for others not, but regardless the movie somehow failed to create any imperative in me to figure all this out. I never really feared for any of the principles and as one crisis after another was announced then knocked down I noted that the tension level, least for me, didn't really change. I did enjoy looking at the movie.