Laziness of thought

Rating: Null/10 (6 November 2003)

I have the same impression as of the first of the Matrix trilogy. This could be quite a good film if the authors' thought was not so lazy.

The movie is full of the scenes and characters that lead to nowhere, do not develop and are not necessary. Why did they introduce Trainman? What does he do for the movie? I waited for a new meeting with Frenchman and his beautiful wife. But not such a meeting, boring and without a purpose, really.
The design of the machines is as stupid as in the first film. No defence from above? I am sorry, it is difficult to buy.
And the peace in the end is ridiculous. Even for a minute one cannot believe that this would be more lasting than any of the Middle East settlements. They don't last despite all our good intent, do they?

Yet, it was so easy to make a good ending. Instead of the deal with the machines, Neo had to beat agent Smith, take over all his replicas and while the machines attack in the real world, millions of Neos would smash their software. A great battle, crazy machines destroy their own material base and Neo dies trapped in the decomposing Matrix.