Juvenile Sci-Fi Techno Drivel

Rating: 4/10 (29 November 2003)

The other night I watched "The Matrix Reloaded". This movie was bad in that special way that the Buffalo Bills are bad at winning Superbowls. Really bad.

It is not uncommon for a movie to present the viewer with an alternate reality. That's great; it's part of the fantasy. However, a reasonable movie will stake out territory and then be consistent within that new reality. In "The Matrix Reloaded", anything can make sense, at any time, and you're just supposed to accept it. Neo has the ability to stop bullets, but not punches. He has the ability to "go superman" and leave any situation he wants, but he sticks around to fight 50 guys who never get hurt, no matter what he does to them. If no one gets hurt or stays down, is it really even a fight? It looked more like dancing to me.

Another theme of the movie was people trying to make sense of their purpose. If you want to watch someone find their special purpose, I suggest Steve Martin's "The Jerk".

Apparently, this movie's primary objective is to get you to watch the third one. Personally, I've got a long list of things that will need to happen before I ever do that. On my life's big "to do" list, watching the third Matrix movie falls somewhere between going to Branson Missouri to see the world's biggest ball of string and learning how to "swing dance".