worthy sequel to the Matrix

Rating: Null/10 (4 November 2019)

The second part of the Matrix trilogy is neither as great as the first film nor as serviceable as the third one- Its just a good sequel to the original with some cool sequences. Although there are things about The Matrix Reloaded that I like, the movie is so open-ended and riddled with gaping holes that it's virtually impossible to view this as a finished project. The Matrix Reloaded delivers what a segment of the viewing audience expects - visually dynamic action sequences separated by interludes of wordy, often pretentious exposition. The only real intellectual titillation comes at the end, when the storyline lurches forward in a moderately unexpected direction. There are, of course, a large number of fight scenes. These include some relatively "simple" (and not terribly energetic) ones - Neo fighting a few agents, Trinity trying to survive a vicious onslaught, Neo "proving" that he's "The One" to a skeptical guardian, etc. But there are also three big ones.