HORRIBLE organization

Rating: Null/10 (17 May 2003)

The Matrix Reloaded starts off by giving us a half-hour of seemingly random scenes and dialogues. It was all a confusing mess. There was some of the worst editing I have ever seen in all the scenes that took place in Zion. I did, however think that the set design for Zion was very cool, with the exception of the dancing cave(shudders). The BS philosophical discussions get SO obnoxious after a while, they sound like the the things people from my high school talk about. The fight scene with the 100 Smiths was cool, but I could easily tell the difference between when they were using live shots of Keanu and when they were using a CG Keanu. That was distracting. The car chase scene was INCREDIBLE, especially when the two semis hit head-on and you could see the viscousness of the flames erupting from the explosion. The freeway scene was frought with violent, almost pornographic car crashes, which were all awesome. I also thought that the spiraling trail of cars behind Neo when he was flying in the city was neat. Then back to the incoherent editing. It was never clearly explained what was on that particular floor(63rd?) of the skyscraper, or what exactly the keymaker is doing. Action scenes: 9/10 Rest of movie: 6/10