so unnecessarily convoluted, it approaches genius

Rating: 6/10 (18 May 2003)

The Matrix Reloaded has many flaws--flaws common to genre-crossing stories: what percentage of the movie should be action and what part should be narrative, or is there a way to combine the two. The first Matrix was able to combine narrative and action, but Reloaded fails to make these aspects seamless....but it does surpass the first Matrix in sci-fi theology: what is free will, etc.....not a bad movie, but the fabric of the story is thin in the crotch...