Looks like the brothers have been reading their press releases...

Rating: Null/10 (15 May 2003)

Spoilers -- (Just to be safe)
If I could sum this movie up into one word, that word would be: disappointing. I hate to see something like this happen. The trailer was literally the best thing to come of the whole movie.
It looks like the co-directing brothers have been reading too many of their own press releases and have come to believe that in order to create the ambrosia of movies they must stuff digital fight scenes, an extremely gratuitous sex scene, and all-around melodramatic dialogue into a 2 1/2 hour movie that (I believe) could have been cut down by at LEAST an hour. They succeeded in created only fodder for the masses.
Pinkett-Smith was pointless (although I REALLY liked her look). Her character was one of a few manifestations that I thought crippled the film as a whole.
I know I cannot be the only one who wanted large, and rather uncomfortable wooden post crammed down Merovingian's throat. I dubbed him affectionately, "The Thing That Wouldn't Shut Up"- he seriously doesn't. And what he DOES say is either (a) indistinguishable (b) melodramatic (c) pointless.
The fight scenes were so...animated. I just couldn't take it after the fourth...fifth...one-hundreth fight scene. The new digital fighting animation was more than I could take. I don't ever like to FEEL like I'm watching a movie. I especially don't like to feel like I'm watching my computer monitor.
The Twins- WHY...oh WHY weren't they in the film more? Their whole creation was wasted on what must have been twenty minutes total screen time. I wanted more, more, MORE of them!
Don't get me wrong. The movie has "popcorn feature" appeal. I would recommend that you go see it- at the matinee price. It isn't worth the 7.50 I paid for it...and I found myself checking my watch more than once...something I never thought I would do at the Matrix sequel.