Visually great, but disappointing overall.

Rating: Null/10 (5 November 2003)

First, the overall visual effects are stunning in this movie, but not of the cool bullet time variety found in the first movie. This movie was done on a more epic scale though that does cause problems. Worth the price of admission just for this.
That said, this is a basic run of the mill action epic. Nothing more or less. No real thought is required before or after. A few points of "oh, that's how that worked", but far far more unanswered questions. This movie is basically an overly-long shoot-out and not much more. Just enough plot to bring the films to a conclusion, but nothing is all that unpredictable.

Too many characters the last two movies are just thrown in with no real purpose, and many of them come and go to no real effect. I guess in the end I have to say this film is redundant. Nothing really new was added in regards to cool weapons, characters, plot and the biggest disappointment is nothing much is revealed about the nature of the Matrix that we didn't already know. The ending itself was very predictable.
I never thought I would say this, but I was relieved when it was all over and I wish that I had stopped watching after two so that at least my imagination could fill in a far better ending. Very very uncreative and rather disappointing.