a length problem

Rating: 7/10 (21 May 2003)

** potential spoilers **
In short, the matrix reloaded has a length problem.
It is no doubt a good movie, but geared toward audiences who are familiar with the first Matrix movie and/or fond of actions which you'll find plenty. I think the beauty of the Matrix series is not the action and visual, but the human-computer interaction. In that sense, most of the action scenes are simply too long. I'm very bored after Neo fights the Smith viruses for about 1 minute. I was thinking: why don't you just fly away, stupid Neo? You can't beat them, they can't beat you, no point in fighting, okay?
Even the Zion scene is too long, too.
On the other hand, "reloaded" leaves too little room for the mind-twisting logic. Does anybody understand 100% of what the oracle says? What is her motives on doing what she's been doing? Since she admits she is a program, what about the "creator" of the matrix? Is he a program too? Why does he call the oracle, a program running inside the matrix, the mother of the matrix? If "the one" is an anomaly of the system, does that mean everybody "functions" normally? Sounds like every human get a program downloaded into brain at birth.
There are a lot of un-answered questions, and maybe that's why I'll go watch revolution.
I just hope I'll get satisfied in the story then.