Take your $10, set it on fire, stay home, and be grateful you didn't waste 2 1/2 hours.

Rating: 1/10 (18 May 2003)

First movie: excellent! Second movie: never should have been made.
The Matrix Reloaded has NO STORY. Not a coherent one anyway. The whole first hour of the movie is nothing but repetitive doomsaying and characters trading off the "be careful...don't go..." speech. But hang on, it only gets worse after that. The "state of the art" camera techniques and digital effects that were interesting in the first movie are now overrated, tired, and overdone. But for some reason, they do it even more in The Matrix Reloaded. The great digital effects are so great that in the scene in which Neo is fighting scores of Agent Smiths, Neo looks like a video game graphic. Terrible. Then as I was staring at the ceiling praying for the movie to end, it did what I didn't think was possible. It got dumber. I can't imagine "spoiling" The Matrix Reloaded any more than the writers did, but for the dumbest parts, you'll have to see it for yourself. The storyline is like the talk of a bunch of drunk guys at a party..."Yeah, yeah, and then he almost gets knocked off the truck...yeah, but then he doesn't fall...yeah, yeah, then he catches the edge at the last second...yeah, then he does a flip to stand back up and a kick at the same time...yeah, and then he almost falls again..." and on and on. If you liked the first Matrix, then watch it again. If you like fight scenes, then watch a Bruce Lee movie. If you like digital effects, then go watch Star Wars Episode II. There's no reason on the planet to see The Matrix Reloaded.