Should have been 30 minutes shorter

Rating: 4/10 (3 June 2003)

My recommendation is to wait until it comes out on DVD so you can fast forward through the fight scenes once you get bored with them. With the exception of the ghostly albinos, every fight scene seemed gratuitous. Pointless. And yes, BORING -- if you've seen a fight scene from the original, you've pretty much seen all the fight scenes here, too. (Especially the one with all the Agent Smiths. Neo should have realized very quickly -- from past experiences with other Agents if nothing else -- that battling the Agents was futile.) The chase seen was at least a little interesting, but it ran too long as well.
The effects were disappointing as well, because they weren't better than in Matrix 1. Just more of the same. The fight with the Agent Smiths often looked like a video game. An awesome video game, mind you, but a video game nonetheless.
There was enough of a plot, which was good enough, to make a reasonable 100 minute movie. Some of the philosophical stuff should have been cut. (When the Keymaker said he knows some information because he's supposed to know it so he can tell Morpheus and friends, I just rolled my eyes. What a cheap copout.)
Had they reined in the fight scenes, I would have left the theater feeling entertained. But they didn't.