5.3/10- okay sequel

Rating: 5/10 (25 April 2009)

The Matrix ain't my fave movie, but I'll review it anyway, real short and sweet...
I'm not a big fan of Hollywood movies. Most, like the Matrix are rip offs of Japanese animes. *The Matrix rips off Ghost In The Shell and Golgo 13, Van Helsing rips off Vampire Hunter D. Ben Stiller's character from Dodgeball is ripped from the Dragonball Z character Mr Satan (his film Zoolander rips off the Bret Easton Ellis novel 'Glamorama').
It's got a lot of explosions and fighting and this that and the other. I think the tried to cram so much into this one though, that at times you weren't able to focus properly on the performances or other aspects of the production... basically they must think that anything can look good if you film it with green tinted lenses! XD some of the sexy Hollywood glamorama crap really got on my tits too- like the scene where the Frenchman is talking philosophical bullsh't and then the camera goes into the black and green Matrix mode and zooms under the table up to a girl's crotch, and the scene where the token black sub-character gets back to his quarter and is about to say 'hey where my pus--' ssy, but then suddenly sees the women with the kids (I can imagine that one was intended to make audiences roar with laughter, though the effect is actually more cringe inducing).
5.3/10 -most action movies are crap mindless pieces of entertainment, made for the kind of people who listen to songs like 'Let The Bodies Hit The Floor,' who usually don't have a brain... that have people like Jean Claude Van Damme stuck in the straight to video industry, and a alcoholic, and Stallone staring in remakes of his own movies out of pure desperation for work. The Matrix offers a more creative approach to destruction, and has a lot of cool (slightly WTF) fight scenes that have been carefully orchestrated. In terms of originality though, it's nothing new...