I wasn't impressed

Rating: 6/10 (18 May 2003)

I was having a very hard time when I was in the theater. After 4 years of falling in love with The Matrix, I found myself trying to like Matrix Reloaded as I was watching it, convincing myself that Matrix Reloaded did not suck, and I was not bored by the special effects, or the one-liners, or the story line. But who am I kidding, if it was really such a great flick, I would be spending 100% of my time enjoying it, loving it. But I wasn't. The story was the most disappointing part. After we learned what was the Matrix four years ago, the movie was trying to throw in some extra twists to complicate the plot, and to explain certain concepts that were better left un-explained. The fight scenes were not any better either, most of them were overly pretentious and LOOOONNNNG. I was so unimpressed by them that I was constantly asking myself "Is it gonna end anytime soon?" The highway car chase scene... yes, a lot of car stunts, a lot of fighting, and tons of bullet-time... but you know what? I prefer the good old Ronin-style car chase.
Ronin = white-knuckle excitement.
Matrix Reloaded = Yawn... are we there yet?
Forget about the Matrix. Remove my expectation and anticipation. Just consider this movie as a separate entity that has no relationship with the Matrix what so every. I would give the movie 6/10. In hind sight, if I had known the quality of this movie, I would have waited for the release of the DVD and wouldn't bother to watch it in the theater.
My 0.02