Decent, but it has its flaws

Rating: 1/10 (18 May 2003)

First off I'd just like to say that this movie was a lot worse than the first one. I'm not going to knock anyone for saying they liked it more, but anyone saying that it was a better movie is just ignorant. I actually didn't mind the movie. For the most part it was entertaining, but certain things started to get to me about half way through the film.
The overuse of CGI made me feel like killing someone. I believe that if it is not possible to shoot a scene using humans that they should change the scene. I didn't hard earned money to watch a cartoon.
What the h*ll were the Wachowski brothers smoking when they wrote the script. It seemed every scene they felt they had to put in a cheesy line and it became very annoying very fast. I mean, I love them for us the first one, I just don't know what was going through their heads when they put this crap together.
***SPOILER ALERT***
So now Neo can heal people as well? This is becoming ridiculous! Not only can he ward off hundreds of agent Smiths(only one of which nearly killed Neo in the first one), and not only can he fly faster than anything anyone's ever seen before, but now he can bring his friends back to life if they die, or heal them if they get injured. What the h*ll?!! And I can't believe what the whole Architect thing when he says that this is the sixth version of the Matrix. That ruined the whole trilogy for me. It essentially threw everything that was so compelling about the first movie out the window.
***SPOILER ENDED***
I thought that the film had its highs and its lows. I just feel that if they were going to make sequels anyway, which I don't think they should have ever done, they could have certainly done a better job on it. If you're looking for high paced action, wait until it comes out on video because you'll bore yourself with the filler if you see it in theatres. If you're looking for an intellectual film like the last one, stray away from this completely. If you're looking the jaw-dropping special effects that we got from the the first one, you'll be disappointed. But if you're in the mood for a good cartoon, check it out soon.