Disappointing

Rating: Null/10 (30 May 2003)

If the Matrix had been this mediocre there would have been no sequel.
The first hour or so is dull: Zion would have best been left unseen as a metaphor rather than being shown as tacky and sub-Star Wars. Had it been left as a paradigm it would have been far stronger and I might have cared: as it happened it looked like a night-club straight out of Bad Boys / Basic Instinct.
Interesting to note that all the baddies are (without exception) white and the goodies are (with two exceptions) black. Why? Had this been the other way around there would have been cries of racism.
The fight scenes are technically good but are flat because there is no sense of any vulnerability .
The movie is pretentious, so far up its own bottom you can see out through its nostrils.
Some good action scenes, but the next one needs to be The Matrix Redeemed.