Tasteless, Pointless, and Ultimately Bad

Rating: 1/10 (16 May 2003)

The film was the worst sequel I have seen since the Alien Trilogy took a nose dive to the interplanetary dump. The films main purpose was to amaze who have been desensitized over to years to special effect and sex. Geared away from the intelligence of the original, this overly fast paced Wachowski orgasm lends itself if to the `Fast and Furious' and `American Pie' type mentality. Showing zero respect to females, Reloaded treats women like meat (with lines like `Where's my pu...') and exploits them as sexual objects with the tasteless Cake Scene. However, the bad tastes all begins in a music-video type orgy scene intercut with a pointless love seen gear towards horny men who dragged their girlfriends to the movie so they too can get off on Andy and Larry's fantasies. Not only were the special effects bad, but there were way too many of them. The faces of Neo and Trinity in the `improved-bullet-time-not-really scenes' do not look anything like Reeves or Moss. Now, if the scenes were less that three minutes (a time which no action scene in the original went over) people might not have been able to identify the poor work of the special effects crew. But since the entire movie was filled with action scenes easily passing 10 minutes, your find time to see that Morpheous does not look like him, and Neo's coat has absolutely no texture or rendering to it. Was it me, or did Neo go from having a fairly tame mouth in the first one to a mouth like Joe Pesci in Goodfellas? Between the orgies and the violence, we tried to get a grasp of a possible story line, but it was coded in a sea of wordiness by a guy who I think was an architect (Not sure...CAUSE NO ONE EXPLAINED IT!) and the over zealous speeches by Lawrence Fishboune. I foresee this movie taking the same path of Star Wars: Episode One. It was the greatest film ever when it came out, but when we look back now, we can clearly see, it is a film based on the pure one dimensional plot that it has disguised by too many special effects, and bad acting.