come on people, you don't need to be that smart....

Rating: 3/10 (16 December 2003)

to figure out this movie was pretty friggin shaky, storywise first of all of course, maybe next rivaled by the acting/plotholes/...boring nature??? SPOILERS....... I mean, it had some cool effects (most notably the niobi driving the ship through the mechanical line or whatever, but isn't a movie of this scale/budget expected to have some nice explosions and shiny computer generated whatnot? I didn't see the second one, but this was bad enough to not need a link. As others mentioned, practically the most interesting aspect of the first, the matrix vs real world equation, was almost completely non-existant. The final fight was oh-so predictable but what immediately lead up to it was soooo much worse! The deep,intuitive(sarcasm), plastic(not sarcasm) "one," Neo is like "ok........i'll think of something, I always do."......................then it hits him after taking his leap of faith..."I'll just talk to the big robot dude and see if we can't work things out." Yea, the first matrix built up a lot of philosophical questions to be given such a cop-out (couldn't think of anything else) conclusion. A comparably minor point real quick......someone already pointed out,lol: why the big clumsy,immobile devices that the humans hop into to battle the machines, when all they really offer is big mechanical arms holding big machine guns? Couldn't you just mount a big machine gun somewhere, maybe somewhere with some cover(not to mention they'd have some better weapons in the future)? Ok, and no we don't care about any of the characters, esp will smith's horrible acting wife niobi. It was also very unclear what Smith gained from the oracle/what happened to her/why she didn't try and avoid him or something somehow as smith points out....i almost wish he had just grabed her all-seeing eyes out of their sockets right there. Other things which annoyed: the main commander dude of the humans, the last one to get picked off of course, was so over the top/macho persona--half the zion fight coverage was him hysterically screaming and unloading on some squiggly robot guys. oh AND MOST IMPORANTLY....smith's out of the way now right? What's to stop the machines from going back and pulverizing zion, what with the now-known location and all. This movie might as well as well have been freakin independence day. That one was probably more coherent and/or interesting. What were they thinking? We pay them millions of dollars to get gyped (sp?). same old story right? robert ebert thought this one was decent,lol, guess we can't really take him seriously anymore.