Structured like a porn movie

Rating: 1/10 (26 June 2003)

This movie was so bad that the effects and fighting become hugely more important than the plot. The dialogue between the architect and Neo seemed like one of those things they shove into any plot when the directors actually found it lacked dialogues longer than 30 seconds, and even crammed all explanations history and reasons into one ridiculous 10 minute scene. The pattern became so obvious talk - bad look - fight -talk-dirty looks again - fight, that the plot structure seemed extracted from a porn movie, where dialogues are just to kill time between action scenes. The fact that mythology and some of humanity's problems and eternal questions are stuffed into it doesn't make it profound in the least, at best it seems like a badly stuffed, half-baked turkey. No interesting part of the plot actually developed and the rave party was plainly ridiculous. The Animatrix's short films had more depth and the subject was better told than in "Reloaded". Also, since the bullet time sequences were a success the wachowsky Bros. just gave everyone a whole lot more of the same, since surpassing the original installment was beyond (or at least it seem like that) their capabilities. The movie could have been a lot shorter, the actions sequences and their effects were very well done, but far too long and having like 6 or 7 climaxes, Morpheus almost fell from the truck almost 5 times. 4 too many. Frankly the story and dilemmas the first Matrix proposed was far better treated in the first than in this second one.