One word "Hogwash"

Rating: Null/10 (25 October 2003)

(some minor spoilers included) I see so many people attempting to justify this movie and explaining why X means Y and why so and so says this and so on. - Stop fooling yourselves.
The W bro's try to play this movie up with some kind of mystery - to the whole Matrix theme infact. It's all a guessing game for the audience and therefore they get to make their own interpretation of the movie. Sure some may think they've established precisely what means what in each movie - but ultimately they don't know for sure. I like movies which make you think but this movie blindfolds you, beats you silly with *un-necessary* cgi fighting then expects you to like it.
The whole philosophical (sp?) angle taken by the movie and the preached out "big words which make us really smart!!!" stuff is just over the top.

The infamous rave scene is quite annoying and dragged out. I've always had an ability to immerse myself into a storyline and put myself in the shoes of the people in the movie - I get more out of it.
I honestly tried to put myself into the shoes of a few hundred thousand close people who are all opressed by the machines. I honestly tried to think how I would want to bond and get back to my roots, dance be tribal or something as a free human if I was one of the last survivors of such a thing - I really TRIED to give the rave scene some credit as bonding of the people of zion as a large free hippie like family. However,... unfortunately I couldn't do it - the rave scene just didn't fit at ALL - it was oozing sex and sleaze and just completely mainstream hollywood trash - that one BORING annoying scene really drags down the movie - UGH UGH and UGH.

Also I really sincerely doubt the third movie can pull the storyline back together to make it all make sense now (unfortunately) which is truely a shame.
So many un-necessary scenes - just why did the asian fellow have to fight Neo just to "make sure it was you" - then why the corny CORNY (cringe) line of "you could have just asked" was handed back by Neo - it's all so hollywood cheese if you ask me - nothing at all like the first film, I can accept a fight scene if it needs to be there - but many of the scenes in this were just plain not needed or not logical - which ruins the film. If Neo can fly away from a fight which he is obviously losing in the first 20 seconds why does he keep fighting for another 5?
I rate this movie a 4/10 at best - and possibly one of the biggest disapointments since Episode 1.