Stunned and amazed

Rating: 10/10 (25 May 2003)

I went into this movie yesterday late night with quite high hopes and Matrix absolutly delivered, actually excelled. 24 hours later i still have troubles to grasp how good it was, still thinking about all the aspects.
IMO, it blasts the first movie away (wich was very good as well). You have to go open minded thru the first part until the break in order to really enjoy the second part.
It's the Star Wars of a new generation, and it's 10x better.
10 stars
I'm a bit sorry for the people who didn't like it and all i can say is: watch it again. Try not to be too much distracted by the action. It's a terrific, epic tale with great philosophic implications to think about.

<<<>>> Before the break i had some doubts. It was certainly promising, but at that point it could still have gotten very bad. The scenes in Zion where the highlight until then. Morpheus' speech made my skin crawl "WE ARE STILL HERE". The huge party afterwards is impressing. (Probably) a quarter Million humans dance in trance, enjoying each other. The only way to step out of the brutal and desperate reality at hand.
The second part is a stunner. The story totally pulled me in. I loved the idea of independend programs, doing their own thing. This made it possible to introduce some very weird entities. There are loads of innuendos, strangely abstracted characters and scenes. The keymaker for example, making old style keys. The action and FX are beyond anything i have ever seen. Huge explosions, beautiful fires creeping thru hallways and rooms. During the Highway chase my palms became sweaty, the fingernails clawed into the seat. The stunts and the speed, together with the very cool trance/techno sound made this a real rollercoaster.
<<<< MAJOR SPOILERS >>>> Towards the end the story became mindboggling. The scene in "The Source" with Neo and the "Father of the Matrix" where shocking. All what the humans (and the viewers) believed in was ripped apart. Suddenly they lost all hope, the prophecy. They are now on their own. I kept thinking how are the going to pull this thing together in reasonable time ! Well, they didn't. The movie basically suddenly stops. Amazing.
I'm absolutly hot for the 3rd part. Will the humans manage to break this vicious cycle they are in ?? No idea, it could be anything from Happy End to total destruction. Bring it on, i wanna know !
Thanks for making this movie.