the matrix overloaded

Rating: 6/10 (16 May 2003)

the agent smith fight scene was laughable. it didn't look any different than a ps2 game for the most part. the dialogue doesn't improve on the first. for a series of films revolving around a character's quest to find and regain the human spirit, this movie shows a distinct lack of humanity or emotion. if they're supposed to be fighting the machines, why does the entire film operate like it was made by one? it might as well have been a sci-fi channel original. watch it. enjoy it if you don't fall asleep (as my neighbor in the theater did during the car chase). just don't expect anything ground-breaking (unless of course you are convinced that the technology used for "bullet-time" was created for the original matrix. afterall, it wasn't in Gap commercials years before....) it rehashes the same ideas from star wars, terminator, and countless other sci-fi films and just wraps them up into a nice, shiny, green, net-nerd package. admittedl y, this movie is at least a little above the average summer fare, it just doesn't live up to the overbloated hype it gets.