I'm going to hang up this phone. And then I'm going to show these people what you don't want them to see...The Matrix Reloaded, or better yet, The Matrix Regurgitated.

Rating: 4/10 (15 May 2003)

There is NO EXCUSE FOR THIS, except laziness and complacency.
**SPOILERS**
I own The Matrix on dvd - movie making at it's best. Highly entertaining, high energy level, ground-breaking special effects, great storytelling, campy humor, great soundtrack, solid character actors, interesting and thought-provoking plot...thrilling and fun to watch every single time. The Matrix raised the standard for this genre....
Reloaded is not even in the same league. In typical Hollywood fashion, the Wachowski brothers have sold out and there is no evidence of the creativity or originality they showed us in Bound and The Matrix. The dialogue is insipid, the acting is emotionless, the soundtrack detracts from the film, it is poorly edited, the action sequences have brief moments of greatness that lapse into boredom, too much CGI that is often choppy and obvious, a storyline that is insulting.
Mankind could be wiped out in 72 hours...let's dance! We need the magic key to see the architect...let's kiss a pretty girl to get it! Ad nauseum...
Did the Wachowski brothers forget about the `realities' they established in the first film? At the end of The Matrix, Neo realizes there is no spoon. He is able to bend the matrix to his will - literally warping the space around him - guns and bullets have no effect. In Reloaded, why does Neo need to dodge weapons when he has the power to master his environment? Why not go forward and blow us away with never-before-seen action involving his newly acquired skills?
Why is Hugo Weaving's talent wasted? Give the man some dialogue!
Why is Fishburne's delivery annoyingly slow? As if that could save the dialogue.
Why all the unnecessary secondary characters?
Why are the agents suddenly rendered weak and meaningless?
Why waste, in Darth Maul fashion, the potential of the evil twins?
Why make a sequel if this is all the effort you are going to put into it?
Are we nothing more than mindless lambs, fattened on this type of garbage, lead to the Hollywood box office slaughterhouse??
Perhaps I am being too critical, after all, the Wachowski brothers are...only human.