Bad film. Very bad film!

Rating: 1/10 (6 July 2011)

Matrix: awesome, revolutionary, epic, challenging, pretty much the perfect sci-fi flick.
Animatrix: continues fine work started in the matrix. Continues the sense of paranoia and threat.
Matrix reloaded: wachowski bros take the ideas expounded in the first flick and drown them in so much rhetoric and hyperbole that you struggle to follow the plot between pointlessly extended special effects blowouts. Primary characters become redundant, secondary characters are under-developed/unlikeable. Shambles of a movie and comes close to destroying the whole franchise.
Matrix revolutions: decent attempt at a rescue, characters play their parts in the plot well, secondary characters are still douchebags but overall a fairly decent flick.
In short: watch reloaded because you have to to enjoy the whole story. Awful standalone film though.