2 out of 5 stars

Rating: Null/10 (5 November 2003)

This movie is no where near the caliber of what the first Matrix was. The first Matrix was exsistential, philosophical, constantly putting in my head the question, "Could something like this possibly be true? Could there be an alternate universe?"
You learn everything you need to know about the Matrix in the first movie. The fun was discovering the splinter in the back of Neo's mind. That was the Matrix for me. I don't want to see crappy dialogue and bad attempts at trying to explain things further while being sprinkled with fight scenes that furthered the story no more.
And why have Agent Smith and Neo become Immortals? You know it's true. There is no way to defeat either. Agent Smith, in my mind, was like and anti-virus program and Neo and company were the virus. In Reloaded we see that Agent Smith is copying himself and copying himself. Great. We have Neo fighting 50 Agent Smiths now. Pointless.
Why bother having the Oracle in Reloaded? "Zion will fall." No crap. The people in Zion are cyber-geeks. Intelligent. Could they not figure that out for themselves.
Matrix Reloaded wanted to be much more than it was. It seems that the Matrix now has fanboys like Star Wars Eppy 1 and 2 had. The first Matrix was brilliant. The second one WAS ANYTHING BUT.
Someone below said that it was the best sequal ever. Better than "Godfather II"? Better than "Evil Dead 2"? Not even close.