Like watching someone else play a video game

Rating: 3/10 (27 October 2003)

The Matrix is an incredible movie. The subtle philosophy, the intense but not overstated action, the original ideas: all these were wonderful. So why oh why did they have to ruin them all with a piece of crap sequel that takes everything good about the first Matrix and ruins it by making it obtuse and overblown. It's been said before, but I'll repeat it here: The Matrix Reloaded is like watching someone else play a video game. It doesn't matter how good the game is, it's still boring to sit and watch it.

Now we fight (For 7 & 1/2 minutes against agent Smith and about four hours on the freeway) Now we talk (In convoluted psudophillisophical language that doesn't actually tell us anything.)
The real difference between this movie and the original Matrix is that the original told us something about our world. The movie had a point to make, and it was something deeper and more important than "Hey we have millions of dollars to spend on bullet-time animation scenes and we're not afraid to use them!"
Bottom line: Matrix Reloaded - see it once out of respect for the original and hope for part III, but never see it twice. It sucks.