a good movie, but doesn't flow well with the other two

Rating: 8/10 (4 November 2003)

I saw an early showing of the new matrix movie and was somewhat dissapointed. It is definately something you dont want to miss, yet it does not follow through with the style of the others. Personally I think they should have explored more of the things we haven't seen yet (such as near the end) and put some more history to it, and left out the drama between the civilians at Zion which seemed over done and out of place. I did enjoy the Smith character in this movie, but was hopeing for a little longer of a battle with neo. The previews highlight the battle between Neo and Smith, showing hundreds of Smiths surrounding the fight, and let me down a little with the way the battle was different from the second movie. It's hard to tell why the movie was not as good as I hope for without ruining it. With all of the different sequences and ideas presented in this movie, I loved how they began and concluded, i was just hopeing for more history/explanation in between and less drama between newer characters. I give it a 8.5 out of 10.