The Matrix Reloaded? Or matrix unloaded?

Rating: Null/10 (10 June 2003)

The film revolves more around the city of Zion this time rather than freeing minds from the matrix. The machines are digging down the city of the humans, and it seems again that only the ONE can save the day. Neo has to go in the matrix and do an assortment of things to get in to the matrix mainframe and disable the machines. I will say no more on the story line, so not to spoil it for you.
If you were to discuss what this film had, you would have to say it had it all. It had romance, Extreme action, fast bikes, faster cars, guns, sex and suspense. The only thing it missed was a point. You watch the entire film and then the explanation of what has been going on for the past 2 hours is a load of jargon that you will have to be an English, and mathematics major to even get the gist of. The best advice I can offer you is 'take a dictionary' because no normal person will understand a word. Don't pay for someone else's ticket for this film because you will need that additional fee to pay for yourself to see it again. If you think you will be able to watch this once and fully understand it you will be horribly wrong, you will have to go back about 4 times to understand it all. Anyone that says otherwise is LYING to you!
As usual Keanu Reeves (Neo) is as cool as ever and kitted out in his new agent killing gear, and Laurence Fishburne is acting as if he is the legendary Morpheus and making a very good job of it. All the agents make a return, even the very controversial 'Agent Smith' who we all thought was the first to fall after Neo discovered he was the ONE makes a return. In a big way!
The fight and action scenes were, as you would expect, breathtaking. However I feel the makers will have to think of something a little different for the third instalment of the series to keep the interest still there. You watch the first matrix and think 'God!! This is unbelievable' but you watch this and feel its just the same old style of fighting over and over again, and no amount of special effects will be able to change that. I feel that too many enemies were added which in the long run, made great action scenes but very hard to keep up with. The only problem is that the fighting scenes do at some point's flaw the films story line. At one point Neo is struggling to keep up with fighting some of his enemies, and the next he is flying at the speed that has never been seen before by the ships new navigator. I just wish they would make up their minds about how fast Neo really is.
As for the special effects, they were up to the sort of standard that we have come to expect from the big blockbusters of the modern day. It was full of explosions and a very good scene when Morpheus and crew are fighting agents on the high way, at extreme speeds.
When I was watching this film I thought to my self 'I wish I was a woman so I could enjoy this film more'. Not being sexist, it's proven that women like Romance more than men, and this was a little over done in the romance department. Obviously this film had romance written all over it after what happened at the end of the first film. However, it has been layered on far to think.
The Matrix was probably one of the best films made. It had the best fighting scenes, the greatest special effects ever seen to that time, and a truly unforgettable story line. But Sorry I have to say that the matrix: Reloaded was definitely more like Matrix: Unloaded and was no where near the high standards of the original. However, there is still life left in the series yet, with the 3rd and final instalment coming some time later this year. When you read a good book it always has a beginning, middle and end. Sometimes though, not all of the 3 sections are great, but the book is still a work of genius. So basically what I'm trying to say is, if the 3rd part of the series is anywhere near as good as the first, it will go down in my mind as one on the best films ever made.
My Rating 7/10 'Definitely worth going to see, but compared to the original, it lacks in the story line'
Final Comments This could and should have been the best film ever made, but I don't even rate this as film of the year. It's not that bad, it just is a disappointment after the first film, and all the media hype that this film was given. My tip for the rest of this year is 'we have had two of the four biggest films of this year so far which are X-men 2 and Matrix: Reloaded. However I feel the ones to watch this year will be Terminator 3, and the newest conversion of the marvel comics, The Hulk. Watch this space!