Just too much

Rating: 5/10 (22 May 2003)

(contains spoilers)
Knock knock Neo..... Man, I liked "The Matrix" a lot, not just because of the sterile style and the cool action-scenes but also because of the good script, which (what I read in secondary literature) was based on several books of big philosophers. In the final scene of part one you see Neo flying like Superman through the Matrix, and I thought "man, what a lame gag". Unfortunately the flying is all in all the only thing Neo does in "Matrix Reloaded" and the script is (with a few exceptions) pure crap. The idea of another Matrix in which Zeon exists which is only a higher security-level isn't that bad, but you cannot compensate a ten minutes dialogue of the oracle (which really doesn't make a sense) with 20 minutes non-stop-fighting. although the special-effects really kick ass, they get boring the longer you see it.
The fact that Neo saves Trinity from dying by massaging her heart IN her body is just too ridiculous. And the decorators? Oh god,please.... in Zeon everything is dark and metallic and kinda dirty, but no-o, the master-control-station is shiny-white and completely stolen from "Minority Report". I could ramble on with those things for pages and pages (for example: the 5 minutes raver-party scene? my, how bad!) but this might be kinda unfair. The movie has it's scenes and characters which are undoubtly cool, but that's it. That's really it. Watch "The Matrix", it's a good movie, but if you haven't seen "The Matrix Reloaded" I would wait 'till Revolution is in the cinemas. Maybe you have to see 2 and 3 in a row to realize that "Reloaded" isn't that bad.