as useless as expected

Rating: 1/10 (4 February 2006)

The second movie of the Matrix trilogy is as worse as expected. Whereas the first movie had a story and allowed its characters to evolve slowly and build up something like a decent storytelling, this movie does not have anything like it.
It begins with a scene of nicely orchestrated kungfu fighting of a random character (was it trinity?) that fights against overwhelming enemies. After a while, a few words are said. Then fighting again. Music scenes, it looks like a giant new york disco. Sex. A little love thingy. Fighting, more fighting. Ah, a 30 minute car chasing scene (with fights). A scene with the oracle: Words are like "hm, you know why you are here" "Yes, who are you?" "That is not important. Important is the why" "So why?" "you will find out" "When?" Agents come. Fighting. More shooting. Some explosions.
Ah, by the way: 250000 robots attack zion. Luckily, we will not see this useless fight, we have to watch something else. Oh, kungfu fighting, didn't expect that.
At the end, Neo (the main character, but all characters look same, move same and talk same anyway) finds god, the architect and the architect says: "Yes, who are you?" "That is not important. Important is the why" "So why?" "you will find out" "When?"
You might guess it: You will know it when you pay the producers the entrance fee for matrix 3. So all in all, If you really think that Matrix one is a nice movie and has some deeper meaning or a good story, don't even think about watching Matrix Reloaded, it is a spoiler of the first Episode. Matrix one ended in a point that gave some good feeling: neo will free the people, one by one, life is good. Don't watch this movie, do something else, better idea is: match matrix one again. Perhaps watch matrix one with directors comments or watch all the special sections on the DVD, but if you see Matrix two, you will like to throw away the matrix one DVD also.