Lost of track

Rating: 5/10 (10 April 2006)

The Matrix had a perfect ending: it left something to ponder and and it was nicely goofy. And I thought it didn't need a sequel of any kind. But then again I knew, that because the film was a hit there would be at least one. And there was two.
Reloaded has a nice beginning, after that the movie falls flat on its face and churns itself as a tensionless pseudo philosophical mumbo jumbo about Jesus wannabe Neo (Reeves) and his prophet Morpheus (Fishburne) and Neo's apostle Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss). And of course Mr. Smith (Hugo Weaving), the evil agent extraordinare.
The biggest problem of the film is total lack of tension: as Neo is this godlike being in the matrix you know, that no matter what, he prevails and that makes the film as tedious to watch as a computer game when you are not playing it.
The second problem comes directly from the philosophy of the film: in where the first Matrix the whole thing was more of an existentialism view on world, in Reloaded it all turns out as a bad religious (mainly Christian) reference. It's far too obvious, that The Wachowski Brothers were trying to create something similar to Star Wars.
Reloaded turned me off so efficiently, that I still haven't seen the last instalment of the series from the reason I really don't want to. I doubt it will get any better.