Craptacular!

Rating: 2/10 (22 May 2004)

While Reloaded may have been simply a disappointing sequel, substituting story and originality with gonzo effects and 'coolness' so beloved in the first film, this film is a spectacular disaster. it is horrible on so many levels. The music in reloaded was derivative and lacked the energy of the first, but this film's music was just flat out bad. As in like annoyingly bad. Like I wanted to shoot somebody bad.
The 'plot' is pretty non-existent and the film takes place mostly in the 'real world' and doesn't even involve the main characters. It's as if Keanu, Carrie-Ann and Lawrence filmed this around their golf schedule. well over half the movie focuses on minor characters who lack personality or development and none of whom we care one iota about. The film is so bad it even resorts to using the horrid cliché of the bumbling young recruit saving the day.
I would rank the film as "horrible" if just for not answering a single question posed by Reloaded, however, the abysmal storyline, acting, music, editing and dismissal of main characters make it impossible for me to rate this film anything over a 2 out of 10 (and those 2 points are solely for a couple of impressive effects shots). This film is an F in every way, as bad and laughable as cinematic catastrophes like Battlefield: Earth or Showgirls.
Perhaps the Wachowski's were truly just 2-hit wonders (Bound & the Matrix) and after that have nothing left to say.