Jesus Christ! What total crap.

Rating: 4/10 (22 May 2003)

I must say the sequel to the Matrix is one of the worst movies I have seen this year. The first film left this series absolutely no where to go. The first film ends with Neo discovering his Superman-like abilities. So unless the writing is very creative and villians as badass as the hero, you will have a boring ass movie. There is no tension in any action scene involving Neo. He is indestructable, unphaseable and over all emotionally uninteresting. Why do any of the Matrix programs even bother to fight him? The uninteresting little dramas involving Neo aside, the film is still crap because there is nothing interesting to say or do. The movie tries to disguise the fact that it has nothing to do with a lot of action. I mean a lot of action. Did I mention there is a lot of action in this movie. Well there is so much action in M2 that it makes the film boring. Can you imagine that? Much of the action is pointless as are many of the f/x shots. It is really quite shocking that the Wachoski bros, who did so well in the first matrix, missed the boat so badly. They have forgotten if they ever knew, that fight scenes and special effects are only important if they move the story along, if they actually add to the story. In M2 they just act as filler, disguising the fact there is really nothing at all to the Matrix. What a disappointment.