Good, but didn't blow me away

Rating: 9/10 (15 May 2003)

Just some specific points....
Too much....WAAAYYY too much exposition. Sometimes it did sound like they were repeating themselves and I actually found myself glazing over and becoming impatient, simply becase I thought I'd heard it all before.
Agent Smith as always was a pleasure. I missed him when he wasn't there.
The action was good, but I didn't really discover anything new or groundbreaking, except for maybe the freeway scene, which was very exhilerating. But I just think back to when I experienced "bullet time" for the first time in the original, I was just blown away and left speechless. Nothing really did that for me in this one. Not that I didn't enjoy the action, though.
Some people didn't like the cliffhanger ending and wanted some closure. I must ask, why? The third one is coming out in six months. Relax. You'll have closure then. The cliffhanger is to build excitement and more anticipation for the third one.
So I enjoyed it, but I wasn't left speechless as I was with the original. 8/10