Very cool, opens some new doors, but whats up with the pacing?

Rating: 9/10 (15 May 2003)

Just a brief comment... Having just seen the movie, getting home very late while following a trail of my own mail (including netflix dvds) on the way home because I was dumb enough to leave it on the roof of my car...... but anyway, its late and I really just want to say one or two things before I pass out.
First of all, this is a very good film. The action is of course visually breathtaking, but enough will be said about that. I found the scene with the oracle to be quite touching (considering the actress who played her has passed on shortly after filming). Many new doors are opened and the storyline (at first seemingly somewhat simple) has now become quite complex and can turn out many different ways. The one thing I would like to mention is: Did anyone else get the feeling that half the movie was directed by one person and the second half someone else? Did the Wachowski brothers take turns? It just seems to me that the first 1-1.5 hours had a very similar pacing to the first movie and then suddenly the second hour or so just went in total fast forward. I was dreading some kind of fatal deus ex machina, but they managed to avoid that. It just seemed rather odd how the pacing suddenly changed.
Still, all in all an excellent addition to the Matrix mythos and Revolutions (tho due to a theory I'm formulating, I think the next/last episode should be called "Evolutions") should be very interesting indeed.
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