Flop

Rating: 2/10 (4 December 2003)

I find it hard to believe that this film was even allowed to be released, as it totally ruined everything that the first film tried to achieve, but again as with many films that come from Hollywood with lots of financial backing the inevitable has happened, throw money at it and hope a film would some how appear and be amazing like the first film was. The film spends more time on how can we put as many effects into the short space of time, rather than actually thinking of another new concept of the original storyline. For example what was the point of the car chase scene, all that it shows is that wow you can fight and bend the rules of the matrix and fight some more, but again missing the point because it never explains what for, throughout the film there is never any reason for why the characters are doing what they are doing. I know that the first matrix is always going to be a hard film to follow, but it seemed as though a storyline was not even thought about.
In the first matrix film the scene is set, and the matrix along with the other concepts of the matrix are explained, leaving the second film more than open to take the idea further, but it just never happened instead the film just ends up flying off in all directions with mini plots. I find it hard to see how any person could have done worse with this film, by all means if you want to see a film all about the latest effects then this is the film, but other than that there is nothing else to the film, 3/10.