anticlimactic but the only logical conclusion

Rating: 7/10 (2 September 2006)

When you see the screen filled with a trillion sentinels amidst a golden hail of bullets your jaw WILL drop I promise you. The film's opening needs thirty or so dull minutes to tie up loose ends from the previous film. Once it gets going, it's business as usual. The pointless, passionless annoying love story continues. The dialogue within the Matrix remains magnificently stilted; the dialogue outside of the Matrix remains appallingly stilted. Minor characters are used effectively, if a little cheesily. The finale is inevitably anticlimactic, as anyone who has worked out the reality of rewriting the source code will probably expect. But whilst it's a whimper rather than a bang, it's the only logical conclusion possible to this geek fantasy of the Hacker Messiah. But it could so easily have been one film instead of two