strange but true...

Rating: Null/10 (13 October 2004)

This movie, along with Reloaded looks to have been an afterthought of the original matrix... oddly it is not. Matrix 1, 2, and 3 were all written one right after another, and initially pitched as one giant story. I find this mind boggling due to the fact that #1 almost sums up an entire story, and 2 and 3 hang on as if a last ditch effort to preserve the aura which obviously is failing. There was HUGE hype around the original, and for good reason, but 2 had less and 3 almost none.
Someone commented on here that the hacker image had been replaced by bondage etc. I agree. The original came out during a time where computers and computer phenomenon was at its apogee, and that is what helped to build the matrix; RELATION. On 2 and 3, people found it hard to relate to such a story. Instead of going on the original story, we are bombarded with an over-complication of philosophy bordering on religious symbols. They tried to make it TOO complicated, TOO deep, TOO twisty for the masses to really relate to it.
I have never, ever, seen such a wonderful idea go down in flames like the Matrix has. I honestly feel deep sorrow for such a waste of one of the most beautiful settings for a story ever created...