Better to wait until October...

Rating: 4/10 (18 May 2003)

This was one excellent follow up to what was a spectacular movie...but...I came away feeling that I had really only watched half a movie. With the release of the third in the trilogy due this October, I'm sure studio execs thought that the millions of die hard Matrix fans wouldn't mind paying $10 (plus popcorn, plus parking, plus babysitting...) for half a movie, then get us hooked for another $10 in October.
There were so many subplots that were left undeveloped at the end of this installment that I really had little idea what it all meant. What's up with Agent Smith? Who is this "sole survivor"? Why does Neo/Neil have this special powers against the squids? And on and on.
Now, I'm sure it will all be neatly and dramatically tied up for us all in October, and the studio execs were right that I'll be shelling out another $10 (plus popcorn, plus parking, plus babysitting...)in October to see how it all wraps up, but, had I to do it over again, I would have rented the Matrix Reloaded in October just before the third installment, watched it, then immediately gone out to see the new movie. Six months is a bit long to be left feeling so unfulfilled.