Great fight scenes interupted by a bad movie

Rating: 4/10 (24 June 2003)

Like most viewers of the film, I was absolutely awed by the intense fight scenes in the movie. Unlike some, I was not really bothered by certain fight moves looking fake or anything like that. I felt they were beautifully produced, and the result was outstanding. Unfortunately the few great scenes were interupted by an annoying little thing called the rest of the movie. Hardly ever have I seen such pointless dialouge go on and on and on. There was simply too much talking, and not enough plot variation.
My three issues with the movie were the following - 1) A highly random dance scene, which looked like some sort of hip-hop music video (in the mud) placed in the center of a rather serious/intelligent action movie. Cool for a video, but misplaced in the movie. 2) too much talking for a movie of this sort 3) the last 20 minute of the film felt like it was being fastforwarded. I felt that they spent way too much time on the first couple hours, and then tried to cut down the last section of the movie which to me was the most interesting.

A decent attempt at a sequel for Matrix, but it failed in too many department for me to give it a good score. 4/10 for great fight scenes, nothing else.