Slept Cheered Cheered Slept

Rating: Null/10 (4 November 2003)

Never has a movie toyed with me more. Nice action sequence to open, then what seemed like hours of waiting for something interesting, I mean the stuff in Zion is no Episode Two like "Obiwan goes to the library" kind of filler, but it's still filler all the same. Then we get to the promised land and Neo fights Smith after Smith after Smith. This delivered eventhough the scenes lacked the dramatic tension earlier confrontations had. The pacing was erratic in this flick. The fight scenes got almost monotonous. I still was held in wonder at the highway scene.
And I actually thought the Architect stuff was good mostly due to a nice performance from the actor playing him. This movie needed to be trimmed though, cut out most of Zion,
come up with a better storyline than "the keymaster" and cut down on some of the extraneous stuff, and it would have been a contender. As of this point the first movie is by far the more inspired and I really can't suggest this one for anything but a few choice cuts.