Matrix: Reloaded… load is right…

Definitely a load of something. This was one of the most overhyped movies of the past two decades. It was almost as overhyped as Star Wars Episode I and that’s a feat onto itself.

I took a couple of days to get some feedback from other people about this movie before I went to see it so that I’d know what I was getting into and I’d also know to go see it on discount movie day ($3.75 Tuesdays). Needless to say, I went on a Tuesday because out of 10 people I talked to only 2 were thrilled about it, 6 were somewhere in the vast vague middle and 2 abhored it. I heard better things about Episode I when that came out and for the love of Pete it was full of Jar-Jar!

So anyway, I get to the theatre and I was the only girl at this showing. There were altogether 7 people in this theatre including myself, so I still had a plethora of footrests and cupholders. Anyway, aside from being a longish movie, there were a lot of things I didn’t like about this film including the following:

• I understand that the creators of this series of films have a big story to tell and that they left some explanations out of the actual movies and did the Animatrix stuff and put some vital information in the video game, but c’mon this movie had so much filler in there you could’ve easily squeezed in 15 minutes of history and background into this movie if it was edited smarter. OH YEAH! The tribal dancing sequence.. you got 8 minutes that could be cut right there!
• Where’d all the witty dialogue go? Why am I more interested in what Agent Smith has to say than what Morpheus has to say?
• When did Morpheus become Jesse Jackson?
• Neo should be too busy trying to save the world to make out with Trinity in elevators and to stop to grab some nookie. I understand that there is an underlying love theme, but they reminded me of two college kids trying to get some while evading roommates walking in.
• This one really pissed me off: Naiobi! What a cool fucking character that was completely wasted in the movie! For months all we heard was “Jada Pinkett Smith is gonna be in this movie! She’s awesome!,” then the movie comes out and she’s not on screen for a total of 15 minutes. WASTE!
• The chase scene was unnecessarily long, and the dudes with the albino dreadlocks were also a big special effects waste!
• I didn’t like the music in Neo’s big fight scene with “The Smiths.” I thought it should’ve been more agressive upbeat techno. It would’ve conveyed more angst/confusion and it would’ve complemented the movements better.
• Why was Neo the only character that got new martial arts choreography? Trinity is still using that jump-freeze-kick routine and the jump-through-window-turn-and-shoot thing. Morpheus re-enacted his training/fight sequence with Neo from the first movie atop the semi-truck in the chase scene with the addition of some nifty handstands and balancing acts. Other than that, it was the same frigging fight. Neo re-enacts his training/fight sequence with Morpheus from the first movie with the guardian program that takes him to the Oracle.

If they edited down the gratuitiously long Neo/Agent fight sequence and the big chase, they wouldn’t have needed the Animatrix garbage at all. It’s obvious they wanted to turn this into a big cash cow, and it makes me not want to waste the money on the DVD later.

I understand that the second movie in a trilogy is usually the one that gets beaten up, and I understand that sequels rarely match their predecessor, but this movie left a lot to be desired. The cinematography was excellent, the acting wasn’t bad at all, but the script was really sub par for this kind of movie.

Tags: Keanu Reeves, Matrix, Screen

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