too early to give it a high classification

Rating: Null/10 (26 May 2003)

Having see the Matrix about a 100 times. my expectation were of course rather high like most of you. Looking now Sci-Fi films nearly 25 years, I still cannot get enough, never!!!!. But some films are clear missed chances, and this one is. Ok, for comic-lovers and pure action-fans M-R1 it is nice, but not better than the first, in many ways the Kung-Fu in part one is mostly credible to me, in this film it hardly was. A good film, -my personal opinion of course- independent if Sci-Fi-genre or not, has: several layers of storylines, credible villains and bad guys with motives (remember the difference who got fame in all the James Bond films, and who you have forgotten an hour after you left cinema) , not too many pseudo-instant, artificial looking lovestories,and not too much to be forseen 'what is coming next?' parts, etc. But M-R1 has this all, (WHY????) and that made it too me in fact very boring. I still like most the mainchararters, and it would have been a pleasure to get more 'higher, psychodylic' clues what our life is about, could be about. Agent Smith, is he still 'thinking' he hates our smell? Are we like a virus? PLease let him have his quotes again!
But I did not find much to remember in it Like in Kubricks Space Odyssy or Scotts first Alien, Neo meets as predictad his own 'HAL' and 'MOther' in one person, a well dressed santaclaus with of course grey beard. Why not an intriging supersmart looing child, in stead of an anchor from the old, disappeared world?
The fighting with the 'new'collegues of Agent Smith is this time much more credible, than the Donald-Duck images of Smith himself. So I think in several directions the Wachowski Brothers owe the public and me, a M-R2 (MAtrix Revolutions), that let me forget the absolute boring parts this time. Being more anarchistic than conventional filmmakers, I just hope the Wachowski's will find again a clear statement against the establisment in M-R2 If you look well, we live in a total disordered and too violent world. If they choose for the easy way, easy to consume and digest, I think the elder audience like me, will pass and only part 1 will become a classicer ! But if they see, they can make a good point, I hope it will be as good as the first. (.......... there is no point, haha) All in all I'm still and will forever be a very big fan of the old crew, and the W-brothers what they did for the genre!