Very Well Done

Rating: Null/10 (7 November 2003)

When the lights came on, I felt I was the only person in the theater that enjoyed this movie. The bad comments started immediately. I can't understand why. It was the climax. It was the "catharsis". It was the third act of a movie, that wants the "hero" sum up all the efforts and knowledge from acts one and two, to confront the "villain". People speak of no storyline, and especially no "answers" to any of the "questions" placed in Reloaded. What questions? Questions that we created ourselves? Why should the filmmakers answer questions they didn't place? People speak of constant battle and nothing more. Have they ever read anything? have they ever seen another movie? From Lord of the Rings, to Stephen Kings' The Stand, to Star Wars, to The Matrix, to, to, to...the third act is the same: "People are fighting for their lives against the entire Evil Force, while the pure (or the enlightened ones) go to fight Evil on a different level, with different means". Annoyed there was no Bullet-Time this time around, and no over the top visuals? REMEMBER! This movie was shot in the "real" world. Only the finale takes place in the matrix. As for the visuals...wait 'till you see the war in Zion !! If there is anything that spoiled the movie for me, it was the Oracle. Unfortunately there is no way you can stop death in the real world, but there was no chance for us, (or the actors themselves) to connect with the new actress. And the fact that the movie seemed too short. I would enjoy another hour of it. As for the Suits humans wore to fight, and the woman with the twin rocket launcher, I take it as a tip-of-the-hat to James Cameron's Aliens, which gives another plus to the movie.