You thought you knew The Matrix? Think again.

Rating: 10/10 (15 May 2003)

NO SPOILERS HERE!!! The closest will be things that were in trailers so you are very silly if you do not know. As you should have hopefully guessed, it was the 10:00 PM showing not 7.5 hours ago (has it really been that long?).
So... what was it like, you may think about asking to someone more physically close to you? In a nut-shell? Mind-blowing. Amazing. Semi-indescribable. Make that nearly-indescribable. You thought you knew the Matrix? Think again. They say this in all the reviews, but you can't understand it until you see the movie. Reloaded is to The Matrix as The Matrix was to everything before it (utterly- unlike it and amazing), only more so. I'd say much more so but I can hardly remember the first time(s) I saw The Matrix so my thoughts on that are semi- irrelevant. But believe the reviewers. It is UNREAL. Last time it was all Neo, one- on-one. Now Neo still of course has the spotlight, but Trinity, Morpheus and a few minors have their times in the sun. But this time for Neo it's more like one- on-five. Everything has changed.
The Matrix was simple; well, simple enough. You knew the good guys, Neo the star, and the Agents were the bad guys, Smith being the baddest of the three. The movie is, if you think about it, mostly them getting Neo out of The Matrix, taking him to The Oracle (where 5 of 9 died including Cypher who was the idiotic cause), than going back into The Matrix to save Morpheus. At this time Neo is unstoppable. I cannot begin to relate (if this were a spoiler-filled Email, that is) what happened in Reloaded; my head is still spinning.
First of all are the baddies (minor spoilers for silly ppl who for some odd reason don't know a thing about it). There are the Agents, of course, but they are almost irrelevant most of the time. There are The Twins (who are never called such); they're... well, they play a slightly smaller role than I thought they would. Than there's Agent Smith (2.0). He is just freaky. No other word. What he does, how he acts, especially all his talking about his connection with Neo, who set him free (if said sentient program can even begin to grasp the meaning of such a word). There are a lot of minor enemies, as well. I don't mean cops either, they're second nature. Let's just say that Neo hasn't met his match, he's met several (within certain reason, of course).
There is a fight scene where Neo fights 100 Agent Smiths, btw, as ANYONE should know. It is as well UnReAl to epic proportions. In The Matrix, they had a much more limited budget (not that it was anything to sniff at) and an uncertain audience, as they had nothing to base The Matrix off of (unlike, say, Episode 2). As such they were careful not to confuse the audience too much and the fight scenes were in the mostly semi-impossible partly utterly-impossible fighting, which of course included three (3) bullet time sequences. In this one it was not so: They were brave and showed, for example what Zion is really like. The fight scenes have blurred the line between real and unreal. You instinctively know what's not real in a movie, because of the context or such. Lightsabers and such aren't real because they just aren't. They've gone beyond that now.
Also, there were about 3 kinda-long Bullet Time sequences in it. They did, however, add small clips throughout ALL of the action. (also unreal) It kind of startles you when it switches over to a dialogue part.
All in all, I'd call it The Matrix squared. There was an odd kind of tone to TM. It was set in the future/computer simulation, yet amongst them is The Oracle and The Prophecy and such. Kind two different feelings, ey? That's increased. The view of the Oracle is much different, but there are other things: destiny, choice, and rivalry (for lack of a better word). Last said feel (or whatever the heck you want to call it) is in Agent Smith; he is no longer part of The Matrix, and exists only to kill Neo. As I said his serious demeanor is all-together freaky and even funny at times, but it helps.
Again, this movie is amazing. Unreal. Fantastic. Words cannot fully describe it. Oh yeah, also, when you see it, make sure you stay towards the end of the credits, there's a very nice Revolutions trailer.
Hmm... I guess that's all. All that I can say, that is. I'm sure there are others who could improve upon it or such, but my vocabulary is weak (:), and without spoilers... ...I didn't know Sentinels could DO that...
Nat, Matrix-boy, Agent Nat, The One Nat, Architect Nat, Nat 2.0, Commander Nat.....

"Old men don't make points often. There's no point." -Counsel member "I've noticed there are no young men on the counsel." -Neo "Mmm, good point." -Counsel member
"You told me never to get on a freeway. stares quizzically at Morpheus -Trinity "Yes." -Morpheus "You told me it was suicide." -Trinity "Let us hope that I was wrong." -Morpheus
"Where are you going?" -Trinity "Another way, always another way. unlocks door and runs through it" -The Keymaker