restraint is lost on the brothers

Rating: 10/10 (5 November 2003)

after all is said and done, the trilogy completed, the genie back in the bottle- all i have left to say is I wish the Wachowskis never got the big budget and freedom to get crazy and stroke all their fantasies, because apparently one thing that they lack in great strides is restraint. they just did not know when to stop.
ultimately we have all seen kick ass special effects and many explosions, sex scenes, cute secondary characters and punch lines- what we wanted was the tight rhythm of pure cinematic magic that the Matrix was. but oh no- there had to be the fluff, the "look-what-we-can-do"!
who cares about zion, and zee and protracted machine fight and pilgrims and little girls when we had the solitary flight of the One, the rabbit hole in wonderland, the destruction and the utter emptiness of the human world which still survived?!
this movie had it in it, had the directors not given in to eye candy- they only needed to weed out the rubbish and the great sequel was there. It was beautifully shot, it had the mood of the original film, it told a great story.
makes me so mad and cheated and disappointed