Too much CGI

Rating: Null/10 (16 June 2003)

I enjoyed watching this movie but it was disappointing as a follow-up to the first installment, which was original and thought-provoking. This movie was more about action;it seemed that the goal was to make everything bigger, faster and more exciting visually rather than to make the storyline more intriguing. I even found myself laughing at some of the action scenes such as the one where Keanu fights the multitude of Hugo Weavings by going vertical on a steel pole and basically running along all the Weavings as they surrounded the pole in a circle. That's the kind of thing I'd expect to see in a PARODY of The Matrix! I hated that I could clearly see which scenes were CGI- I sometimes felt that I was watching a video game where a too-smooth, perfect-looking Neo was battling too-smooth, perfect-looking enemies. Oh, well. I still had fun.