The Matrix Re-Edited

Rating: Null/10 (7 November 2003)

Hey, multimedia geeks! Yeah, I know you're out there! Would one of you do us all the favour of editing "Reloaded" and "Revolutions" into a single good movie? The Wachowskis must've realised they didn't have enough killer stuff to justify two first-rate new Matrices, but, money being there to be made, they went ahead anyway. This means the last two movies have been marred by far too many dead scenes - tender moments between Neo and Trinity, generating as much heat as a wooden block being rubbed against a plastic block; minor characters from whom the only amusement I could derive was guessing whether or not they'd get squished into machine oil; and stupefyingly misjudged subplots (see, there's the real world, and there's the Matrix, and then there's this other world as well - if Neo thinks he's stuck in a place where nothing's happening, what about the audience?)
So if you geeks would take the highway chase from "Reloaded", all of Mr and Mrs Merovingian's scenes, and all the big action sequences from the final hour of this one, and add just enough plot (err on the side of minimalism), you should come up with something that I'd actually watch again.
Still wouldn't be as good as the first one, though. (**1/2)