No Shock Value

Rating: 8/10 (17 May 2003)

THE MATRIX RELOADED, stylistically, was far superior to THE MATRIX, which, for all its greatness, exhibited some clunky filmmaking. This time around, though, the shock value and surprises coming from revealing the secretes of THE MATRIX are much less interesting and less developed. Definitely worth seeing ... probably twice ... but THE MATRIX REVOLUTIONS must wow-and-zow us to make up for the sporadic mediocrity of THE MATRIX RELOADED.