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Rating: 6/10 (10 November 2011)

This one comes following the first. Neo is now a hero between the Humanity, now that the final and decisive battle is approaching. He and the crew are trying to get crucial questions answered but all they get is more questions. The movie is notably weaker, but there you go, as in everything, when something impresses by innovating, it's almost impossible to keep up with the expectations.. There's an attempt to recreate another existential scene, not as successful but eventually interesting, when Neo has to decide between automatically saving humanity and losing Trinity, or going back to save Trinity, putting Humanity's survival at risk. The cast is almost the same, despite some new faces. The only one worth mentioning is really Monica Bellucci as Persephone. Naturally good. It makes absolute no sense when watched separately from the first, and leaves even worse predictions for the quality of the final one, but it does in fact leave you with the natural feeling, typical of heroic movies, when good is fighting evil in great disadvantage, everything is seconds way from falling apart, the usual crap. Technical aspects are very good, maybe better than in the first one, balancing for plot inconsistencies. Recommended if you really liked the first one. Ande please, don't commit the foolishness of watching this one first. 6/10