Terrible

Rating: 1/10 (15 May 2003)

This after the great first movie? We've got a case of 'Jaws 2' here...
From the 'Caligula' scene to the 'Frenchman' scene, where you actually see code travelling up a woman's skirt and causing a pseudo-orgasm (a Matrix super-fan's fantasy, I suppose), this movie is too much sizzle with no steak.
If you do see it, play this fun game-- actually try to listen to any of the dialogue from either the French guy or 'The Architect' and see how the sentences don't make sense by themselves much less together. It seems like two C- scoring Philosophy 101 essays, one on causality and the other on free will/determinism, were plagiarized at random for most of this dialogue. Painful.
Even the effects don't pack the punch they should, and the one really visually impressive scene (the playground duel with many 'Smith's' vs. Neo) is undermined by a terrible musical score (so is the rest of the movie).