Matrix Reloaded

Rating: 9/10 (16 May 2003)

Matrix Reloaded is good. It's more than good. It's an exciting and engaging movie that also sets up the next installment, Revolutions, into what will become (and I hope) the best cinematic orgasm ever. Think of Reloaded as very, very good foreplay. Which is not to say that it is not good. The movie is great and filled with enough action sequences, CGI and cyber-philosophy to make people who loved The Matrix to recall with
excitement their jaw-dropping moments after their first experience with the movie.
Reloaded requires more from the audience during the talking parts (which was the common complaints of early reviews over the Internet). I personally find that the psycho-babble works as it sets up Neo with some moral choices (or lack of) that he has to make at the end of the movie.
Watch "The Matrix" and then "Animatrix" for a refresher course. Pay close attention to Animatrix's first installment, "The Final Flight of the Osiris" (and I don't only mean the ultra sexy opening fight sequence) as it is a prelude to Reloaded.
And finally, don't leave your seat until the very last credit roll if you want a sneak peak of what's happening in the next movie.