Good but dragged on way too much...

Rating: 5/10 (4 July 2003)

When I first entered the theatre to see this movie I was expecting this to be the greatest action film of the year. But, I was disappointed.

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I guess what I was dissappointed the most in the movie was the action scenes:
1) Too much bullet time. It was overused and it made the action scenes longer than they should have been.
2) Why does Neo HAVE to strike a pose every time he is about to fly? If anything they were a waste of time and money for the extra effects added in.
3) Why does it seem like every action film these days require the hero to know kung fu nowadays? It's being used way too much and quite frankly I'm sick of it.
4) Like I said before, they were just too long and pointless ie. If Neo could fly anytime he wanted why didn't he just fly away when all the agents came after him? Instead he just sat there and fought them all making that particular fight scene a lot longer than necessary.
5) I want fight scenes that are pure slugfests not ballet like.

Other things that annoyed me:
1) The fashion in the movie really annoyed me. Neo looked like a fairy prancing around in that trench coat. He didn't look intimidating at all. If I saw someone dressed like that in the streets I'd sooner laugh at him than fear him. It's like everything is so elegant these days why can't we just have good guy that just looks bad ### with that 'don't mess with me' demeanor?
2) More relating to #1 and the gripe with the action scenes. We need heroes that are just willing to brawl and not afraid of getting their clothes dirty and ripped.
3) Trinity not dying was very lame. As a matter of fact when Neo was holding her in his arms I was actually laughing because I so wanted Neo to get p***ed and fly into space and make the world spin backwards to reverse time like Christopher Reeve did in Superman. Even that would have been a lot cooler than reaching into her, taking out the bullet, and then 'magically' healing her.
4) Morpheus' speech in Zion was lame... Bill Pullman made it sound better when he said it in ID4.
5) They tried to make the movie intelligent with the writing but all it did was made the movie unnecessarily longer.
6) The end of the love scene was very disturbing.
7) The rave scene was unnecessary.
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Keep in mind the gripes listed above are purely personal. Regardless of the faults mentioned above the movie was still enjoyable. I did like that chase scene minus the Morpheus and Agent fight. Monica Bellucci looked amazing and the French Guy was cool (he would have been cooler if they cut down his dialogue a bit. It just dragged on too long in the restaurant). Definitely see it if you have the time but don't go in expecting it to be great.