2 Powerful Flaws

Rating: 7/10 (29 May 2003)

I don't want to be negative, I really did enjoy the "Matrix Reloaded", but there were two inherent flaws that broke the movies back as far as living up to the first. 1. The "Reloaded" and "Revolusions" should be one movie. I haven't seen the third installation, but I can oly imagine that if it has as much fat as the second did, it's mandatory. 2. The reason the first Matrix was so wonderful is that it didn't spell every single thing out and it made us care about it's hero and whether he was going to succeed or not. In this one, I didn't care about Zion. Honestly, the movie over sold it to the point that it was all for not. We all know evil will fail so get to it already. Talking about it over and over again doesn't make me care. Morpheus was right about Neo, why wouldn't he be right about this. No suspence. As far as Neo. We know that he can do everything. We now know he can overcome. The only thing interesting in this is how will he overcome all those Agent Smiths? Cutting all the fat from the second so that everything doesn't go on and on about how important Zion is.....we get it!...and making it one movie would have kept it's reputation up as a smart science fiction. Too much and not enough but still a worthy effort.