90% complete waste of time

Rating: 3/10 (30 August 2003)

I've just watched Matrix Reloaded and I am hugely disappointed. I am not the biggest action movie fan but I enjoyed The Matrix when it came out back then. It was an action movie that - despite its flaws - tried to come up with an interesting storyline. It was visually fresh and made an immediate impact in popular culture. The sequel is plain crap. The Wachowski brothers seemed to be contend with just copying themselves. Whenever they tried to introduce something new outside the action scenes it reliably backfires. Scenes like the one in which Morpheus delivers one of the most pathetic speeches in film history that transforms a frightened congregation into a rave party make me cringe. Not to forget the most cliché ridden rendering of a frenchman (yeah, yeah he's a program blabla) ever. According to this movie evil frenchies can prepare/ program a mousse au chocolat that is so filled with wickedness that vaginas of unassuming women will explode. Well monsieur, that demands satisfaction! In
retaliation we will smash your house full of achievements of french culture to pieces! Who's your daddy now?
My advice: Cut out some of the decent action scenes (mass brawl, freeway) slap a good soundtrack on it and show it on MTV. Bin the rest. Do not demand money for it. Put the Wachowski brothers on probation.