Worthless piece of eye candy

Rating: 1/10 (6 November 2003)

This movie was positively awful. First off the actors failed miserably to deliver a convincing performance. Their complete ineptitude combine with the poor
writing and terrible plot constituted no emotional involvement whatsoever for the audience. In order for any type of theatre to be successful it must draw the audience into its world and this movie absolutely did not do that. For a movie that involved the annihilation of the human race I found myself, in the end, not caring which side won. The special effects were impressive, but battle scenes were all far far too long. We can only watch a person stand and shoot things out of the sky for so long and for incredibly sophisticated war machines the robots strategy of never attacking and flying around in a large swirling cloud while the humans slowly pick away at their numbers sure didn't seem very effective. Plus why don't any of the machines have any sort of projectile weapons? As for the final battle of Neo and Smith it resembled a very poor rendition of a Dragon Ball Z battle and was again either far to long or repetitive to keep our interest. On the whole this movie was terrible and definitely worth full price. If you feel you must see it then go to a matinee, but I wouldn't pay a dime to watch it.