Amazing special effects, but a bit unbalanced in other departments.

Rating: 8/10 (5 November 2003)

You can tell that this movie has some amazing special effects, and "Egg" room that was built to film in (giant green screen dome) got a lot of good use. Unlike Reloaded, there aren't any scenes requiring massive computer generation (such as Neo's fight with the Smith clones), so things are kept pretty realistic. Bullet Time was downplayed and used rather sparingly, which was a surprise. I was actually looking forward to it. I did think that a bit too much time was actually spent on the war in Zion scene. I liked the progression, but it seemed as if half of the movie was dedicated to it. Concurrently (sounding like the Architect :-p), very little time was spent in talking, vis-Ã -vis the second movie. A bit of a change, but a good one, since this is what most people disliked in the second movie.
The ending was also rather anticlimactic, but for a movie with this story, there wasn't much else to be expected. There was no way it could have ended in a simple fist-fight.
It didn't strike me until later, but seeing in the Oracle in the very last scene also didn't make much sense.