Watch this for the laughs

Rating: 1/10 (4 May 2006)

Way to take a distinctive, fascinating, thought-provoking movie and totally defecate on its legacy.
Mr. Hollywood Studio is looking to ride the gravy train and make some money on the reputation of the original Matrix film - and after all, the thing everyone loved about the original was the special effects and action scenes, right? Who needs 'plot', 'character' or 'logic' when you've got fancy graphics and violence - such was the thought process used in the making of this atrocity.
The work of art that was the Matrix is duly dumbed and watered down for mass consumption, striving desperately to be moving and appeal to everyone but in the process being stripped of all that made the original great and becoming one long, painful cliché - oh the irony, given the innovations of the original.
Characters we don't give a toss about are forced down our throats, special effects scenes become the crutch upon which the whole film leans, dialogue can be predicted a full 5 conversation exchanges before being said, and fight scenes become the focal point of the entire exercise - the film tries so desperately to maximise its appeal and move as much of the audience as possible that in actuality much of its impact is lost, the film falling flat on its face in even its central aim, like the pathetic abomination it is.
So cheesy was the ending of this that it literally had me in tears of laughter, but I shall not disclose it, that pleasure is yours to be savoured, this film is worth seeing if only for the humorous effect of its intrinsic awfulness.
The definitive Hollywood cash-in. A long, painful, unintentionally hilarious piece of crap.