Disappointed :(

Rating: 4/10 (15 May 2003)

Over the last few week, I was totally excited, reading reviews and looking at the trailers, eagerly awaiting the release of the grand sequel. Did the whole shebang - buy tickets to the premier show on wednesday night, get home early from work, get to the movie hall an hour and a half before the start of the movie, all set with the popcorn and soda.
When I came out a good 2 hours later, I was - to summarize in one word - disappointed. Sure, this movie has awesome special effects - I have hardly seen anything like this. The only similar effect was that of the ghost enemies in Matrix - these effects was similar to that of the teleporter in X2. Awesome fight sequences - come to think of it, there's hardly any span of 10 minutes without a fight.
However, what's missing is the integrity and the charm of the original. I can see the original a zillion times and not be bored. "Guns. Lots of guns" still rings in my ears. There was a heady plot, totally absorbing, and the mesmerizing transition between the real and the virtual worlds. Reloaded lacks all that. This is simply an action flick, without much of a storyline.
Towards the end, there is this big sequence of dialogs without fighting - I don't want to get into the details and make this a spoiler - but I think that was totally unnecessary. The movie ends with the world pretty much in the same state as it was when it started (the world in the movie, that is) - so it's like all ado about nothing.
Of course, this is a must see movie. See it at least once, definitely in a theater, and judge for yourselves!