Ever been put to sleep by a Hurricane? Reloaded will do it!

Rating: Null/10 (20 May 2003)

Spoiler alert I went to see Matrix Reloaded with a friend and his 12 year old son. We are all fans of sci-fi and especially the first Matrix movie so we pre-bought tickets to opening day. Thankfully my friend paid. Not enough room here to really critique this big budget garbage. This movie is a fiasco! Here are only a few points. How many times can we see focus on the shoes stepping from the car? What was it with the sex stuff? Insert sex scene here? Why? It added nothing, and was one of the worst shot I've ever seen. Then the chocolate cake thing was like a 17 year-old's sex fantasy. It just smacked of some producer's "improvement". Oh, was that STOMP doing a cameo in the cavern? Hey, we already saw that big dance/party scene with the Ewocks, it was bad then and it's bad now. Wow, Such pacing! Let me see, car crash, gun play, car crash, .monologue monologue, .car crash, gunplay, car crash,.. monologue monologue. Oddly enough, I preferred the monologues, as they were a break from the monotony and repetition. An hour could have been cut out of this movie. You would not have missed anything you had not already seen, both two minutes before, and in any number of other films. I was certain that Carrie-Ann Moss's "death" scene was her agent getting her out of there. Alas. When the only thing a 12 year-old (who has every Matrix product) can say is "well the highway scene was exciting." You know they bombed. These guys need to go back to Aristotle and look up Plot, Thought, Character, and Language. There is a reason he put Spectacle and Music last. Too much of everything, none of it good! 1/10