Did not stand up to the Hype?

Rating: 6/10 (17 May 2003)

I was one who saw the movie on Wednesday at 10:00 in the evening and was anticipating quite possibly one of the best sequels I have ever seen next to T-2. Not to mention I have forecasted this movie to have the biggest opening weekend of all time.
1 out of 2 aint bad, we'll see on Monday whether I got one right. As far as Matrix Reloaded goes I was disappointed. The first movie started out with confusion, what the hell is the Matrix?, but by the end of the movie even the "not so bright people" knew what the matrix was and what was going on. Then comes Reloaded which my first impression is that this movie is part of a trilogy and not a sequel, hence the Wachowski brothers could have taken a page from George Lucas on how to end a movie that will lead into another installment...the "to be continue" was like watching a mini-series, most people know that there is one more movie to come, so not everyone gasped when that "to be continued" came on the screen. Regardless if I'm wrong with the whole sequel / trilogy comment, it still could've ended better.
Back to movie as a whole, as much as I thought the "partying scene" in Zion was a little Corny, I understood that this movie was about "life", I get it, yet I felt like the scene carried on too long.
Finally, the architect...the people that have supported this movie and have pointed the finger at the ones that didn't like it, say it's because they didn't understand it...they are 100% correct, I will admit that the architect scene threw the wrench into the machine and I derailed. I felt like I needed to have cliff notes to follow what he was getting at, not that I was totally lost, yet this was the moment we were all waiting for in the movie and I would say that 90% of the movie theater was like, "what the hell did he just say?" So for all the fans that understood completely what the hell was going on at the end of that movie...kudos to you...you special
Positives: Great action sequences, yet nothing we weren't expecting considering the trailers showed quite a bit of what to expect. I wish I could say more. I haven't given up yet on this flick, I plan to see it again and maybe I can catch more the second time around. I notice that this website and rottentomatoes have given this movie a helluva rating, a must see, so I sit and ponder and read what everyone has to say, and ask myself how could all of you be wrong?
A great movie is for "most people" to follow in my opinion, but that was the magic that was missing from the second film that people saw in the first.

Thanks for your time
Zoo