They shoulda pulled the plug

Rating: 4/10 (23 June 2003)

Psst... Larry, Andy... I hate to be the one to tell you this, but nobody actually gives a toss about your precious plot. I felt the urge to shout "Get on with it!" at least four times during this bilge. Honestly, I've never heard as much po-faced, pompous, philo-sloppical claptrap coming from a cinema screen in all my born days.
Don't get me wrong, I thought The Matrix was great, but the Wachowski brothers appear to have forgotten to employ an editor on this one. They keep saying that Reloaded and Revolutions were 'one sequel split into two parts', and that's what this feels like - half a movie. What's criminal is that I was genuinely bored for much of Reloaded - even some of the action scenes felt bloated (have Neo and Agent Smith not realised that they'll NEVER beat one another in a fistfight?).
It's all more Xerox than Matrix. But thank heavens for Carrie Anne Moss and PVC.