What is this? Wachowski brothers using prescribed medication?

Rating: 4/10 (24 May 2003)

Yeah, finally, Matrix Reloaded is here! That was the feeling I probably shared with a lot of other ppl out there standing in line to get a ticket.
Loaded up on candy, snacks and coke I entered my seat preparing to be blown away. I realized that a sequel to such a grand movie as THE Matrix could not be done with ease, but this is FAR below the first movie.
First of all; WTF was that sh*te with all the ppl dancing in zion about? A 5 minute propaganda sequence to do drugs and attend raves? And Morpheus's little speach? It felt a LOT like; -"doh, lets copy the speach in Independence day, it'll work for sure!". BUT SORRY! It just felt pathetict! Wrong place, wrong crowd, wrong character and extremly bad timing.
After this we got 'bout an hour of quite good fighting which was nice, but sadly Agent Smiths return felt a little bit thin. Recycling Code? Have the Wachowski brothers even seen code first of all? Everything in the Matrix is code, nothing excists there in reality (at least thats the way I figure it); its just virual. Its numbers, figures and letters not a beer-can. BAH!!
There is a lot of other insidents and pieces of the story that I could complain about, but I will not. 2 angry right now. I'll just give a short summary.
MANY mean effects (gotta give 'em credit for that). SOME Nice fights (some just felt 2 predictable). WAY to thin story (just felt "empty" when leaving the cinema). WAY to much meaningless chatter with no real content. BAD music (compared to THE Matrix). THE WORST ENDING EVER! (Felt like watching a episode of the X-files)
Finally I can almost smell the way Matrix #3 will turn out. A lot of gunfights against the sentinels (Alien 2 style) and the final cut will be NEO and some other humans standing on a hill watching out over a scorched earth in the sunset. BAAAAAAAAAAAH!