One very long real-life action anime (SPOILER alert)

Rating: 7/10 (11 November 2003)

I probably need to apologise to all those matrix-fans out there, esp those who were in the cinema with me, but I laughed out loud quite a few scenes in the ultra spoof.
yes, yes, i bet many are already hurling verbal abuse reading this. don't get me wrong, i enjoyed the movie, just that there are just too many scenes too similar to animes and classic sci fi movies.
when the calamaris were attacking the dock, it looked so much like a scene plucked out from robotech or macross. when Neo the superman fought with agent smith the ultraman, it felt like a real-life fighting sequence of dragonball. And I chuckled the loudest when I half-expected Yoda to pop out when Neo keep talking about reaching "the source" (the force anyone).
Where Matrix was an uber-original tale that became a benchmark for all later movies, Reloaded and Revolutions fell badly under the weight of a near-perfect predecessor.