One line summary? Well... BORING might work.

Rating: 4/10 (8 July 2003)

Where the first MATRIX movie kicks off (literary) with a nice action scene and then goes on to become an interesting and very original story, this film, MATRIX: RELOADED, has nothing but ugly CGI-effects and... nothing else at all.
The first act (first 30 minutes) are painfully boring. Then the action starts. However, those who think that 1000 Smith's are fun to watch, well, sure they are, for a while, but it soon gets dull. The scene with the 1000's Smith's are overlong and it feels like watching a PlayStation 2 game since the computer animations are so obviously computer animations. It doesn't feel or look real for a minute, which makes the scene lame.
Then we have the so much talked about car-chase. "It's the best car-chase scene in film history", I've heard people say. Well, it is not. MAD MAX (1979), MAD MAX 2 (1981) and several other movies had far better car action, with real cars, I might add. The car chase/crash scenes in MATRIX: RELOADED are mostly computer animations mixed with slow going cars, which makes the scene, once again, dull. And overlong.
The film itself seems at a first glance, filled with information, but that is an illusion. The film is a boring mix of overlong computer animations and uninteresting live scenes, and some firearms-action scenes.

Where MATRIX was a good film, the sequel is a bad film. Sad, but true. This could have been done so much better, but they choose not to.
4 out of 10.