The wait was just too long.

Rating: Null/10 (27 May 2003)

I've just come back from seeing the matrix reloaded and am sad to say that i was dissapointed. Was the wait too long had my expectations been hyped too far by the cries of revolutionary effects and fight scenes to die for. All i know is that after 20 minutes i began to shuffle, you may comment that maybe i just had an uncomfortable seat and that this isn't exactly a high brow way to rate a film but all i know is that when i shuffle it means i'm bored. The whole thing just smacks of indulgence. The love scene cut with the dancing new age traveller looking zion people (How long?), the cake scene(Schoolboy smut), the over use of camera angles and cuts in the fight scenes that betrayed the balletic quality of the first film. And the shocking amount of animation that they've used to make scenes possible. Don't get me wrong, there are some awesome scenes, the motorbike scene in paticular was spectacular, but for every good point it was countered with a bad. Then i start too feel bad, maybe the wait had been too long, that i had let myself over hype the film in my head. Hoping for something close too perfection and then feeling let down when it failed to live up too expectation. Then i come round and realise that after all the hype i had a right to expect something more. That the brothers who made the film maybe have too much control and need to know when to reign themselves in, less of the computer trickery and more of the story telling that was displayed in the first film. I feel cheap, like some kind of cash cow thats just been milked, but hey, only another few months to go till Revolutions is released, i can dream all over again.