The Matrix Reloaded just another Hollywood Blockbuster movie

Rating: 6/10 (22 May 2003)

This FILM is the best ever.......... for action scenes, the rest is over dialogued, poorly acted, and quite frankly pointless and pretty stupid. Ok I admit it wasn't the biggest fan of the first Matrix, I liked it but I didn't think it was all that it was hyped up to be and it certainly wouldn't get into my favourite movies of the 1990's, let alone the history of cinema, so I have to admit that I was going into this movie with a very sceptical view, some might say I had already made my mind up that it was going to be a disappointment, well in some ways I can't argue against that as I always think of a film as something that you shouldn't have to enjoy but rather make you enjoy.
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For me the film had too many bad points to overshadow the superb action scenes, these action scenes are better then the first and probably un-challenged by any other film, the fight scene between Neo and Agent Smith? Absolutely brilliant, but pointless. The thing is Morpheus, Neo and the rest of their crew are in a race against time, remember that back in the real world the machines are already approaching Zion (the only living city in the real world) so they need to do what they have to do in the Matrix and then get back to Zion and help out their people as soon as possible, so why do we see Neo take ten minutes to fight twenty or so Agent Smiths when the end result is no deletion of any of the Agent Smith's but just Neo flying away, why couldn't Neo have done that nine minutes earlier? The reason? Its entertaining, for me it is entertaining but also pointless. The fact that Neo is God in the Matrix is the main problem with this film and a problem that the Wachowski brothers don't seem to address. There are so many pointless events that happen when the crew are in the Matrix that with Neo in tow could be easily avoidable. There are other things within the film that provides me with more evidence to say that this is just another mediocre Hollywood blockbuster film. The rave scene, yes a celebration of life overcoming repression etc. which is fine by me but the people of Zion can't be that repressed if the women can still manage to shave their arm pits and the citizens look like they've walked straight off some cat walk from some grunge fashion show. But hey who wants to see ugly people or women with hairy armpits its a Hollywood film after all, to be honest I agree, so at this point the film is a typical Hollywood blockbuster. But what stops it from being that are the three or four over-dialogued scenes in which the Wachowski's try and make us believe that there is some deep philosophical shit going on in this film. The concept of the Matrix is very interesting and philosophical I have no problems with, the Wachowski's want me to take the theories discussed in these scene seriously, unfortunately I am unable to because of the 'Neo as god' and the other pointless scenes that come with it. Another problem I had with this film is the scene in which Morpheus is briefing the two crews (his crew and his former girlfriends Zion's) before they enter the big action finale which will see the war end, he begins talking about their fate and destiny that has brought them to finally finish the war against the machines, well I'm sorry 'Morpheus' but isn't the concept of fate, destiny and the fact that life for a humans being planned what they were fighting against in the first place? There are many other negative points that I could discuss further about this film e.g. the over usage of Neo is one, but unfortunately its only the action scenes and the 'concept' of the Matrix that I can say are positive within the film. This is a film with superb action scenes, better then any film ever made but for me the film is spoilt by the inconsistencies in the plot between the first and second film, the poor over dialogued script, the below then average acting (mainly Keanu 'Wooden' Reeves) and the directors eagerness in trying to force the audience into thinking the film is something that it isn't.