Hits bottom faster than Lucas

Rating: 1/10 (7 November 2003)

Spectacular mostly for the speed of its descent, the latest Matrix not only crashes the franchise into the floor, the threads of its failure actually go back in time to undermine the stand-alone greatness of the original. Will we ever be able to watch the first one again without knowing how badly every element has been overdeveloped, how so many intriguing questions have been either weakly answered or dismissed by the end? How even the coolness itself has turned into annoying?