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| Value for Money | 8/10  |
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| Overall rating | 8/10 |
Director Andy & Larry WachowskiStarring: Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne
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| The Matrix Reloaded (Widescreen edition) [2003] |  | £8.97P&P: £1.46 |
| The Matrix Reloaded (2 Disc Edition) [2003] | | £5.98P&P: £1.46 |
Full review by
adicos
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on 4th Nov 2004
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Good Points: Special effects, Trinity, Agent Smith
Bad Points: Everything, part from the good things
General comments: The Matrix Reloaded - Have you seen Matrix? If yes, it's excellent? Why is excellent? Because 1) you are going to understand Matrix Reloaded and 2) It's much better than the sequel.
And let me explain by telling you a couple of words about the action:
Neo (the same Keanu "Bruce Lee" Reeves) keeps having nightmares about Trinity dying. Then, it starts the philosophy. When there aren't fight scenes there is philosophy and viceversa. We see Zion, the last city of the free world, the world freed from Matrix. We see some important members of the rebel world, war commanders, etc. There is one particular scene of sex dance, when everybody is dancing in Zion, you feel like you're watching the carnival in Rio de Janeiro. The scene is much, much too long and it's not the place for it in such a movie. We find out that the machines are ready to attack Zion and they are preparing to face the machine. The battle would be the final one, only only there is NEO (seen as "the one" by the free world).
And here begins his journey to save Zion from the machines. He meets the Oracle and some other Matrix characters, some are helping him (and Morpheus & Trinity, of course), some are fighting him/them. We soon meet the famous Agent Smith turned "virus in the Matrix world". Well, I am not going to tell you the whole story, I'll leave it to you to see it, because if I unveil the story, there's no point in going to watch the movie.
Only that I'm gonna point out some aspects of the movie:
The script is absolutely hilarious (unfortunately in the unfunny way), there's a lot of philosophy, much too much for an action movie, and this philosophy is so dull and dusty, it just doesn't appeal to you, it's as if it was written by a 10-year-old boy when he had nothing else to do and was bored. The first Matrix movie still had a witty script, it "caught" your attention. But in The Reloaded sequel there's nothing like that.
Morpheus, who, as far as I remember, died in the first movie or at least they let us think so, appeared again with no other information for us, the spectator. His role decreased in importance, from a man who knows almost everything about everything to a guy who believes he has found Neo - dubbed "the one" and suddenly his memory is erased.
The script's authors, the Wachowski brothers tried to create something they want to be "deep" and spectacular at the same time, but they are not Tolkien or Asimov or Frank Herbert. They are far, far from there.
And for the sake of special effects (which are truly amazing indeed, but at the same time too obviously computer-created), which will be probably a milestone in the special effects' world, they forget some minor things which make the movie to be "somewhere there", not "here", with us. For instance, in the chase scene on the motorway (which I think is the longest ever chase scene, but I might be mistaken), the two lorries which crush into each other are driven by two agents. As we learn from the movie, everything in Matrix is controlled by a program written by a programmer. OK, then, tell me what program is killing itself???? Yes, the programs/viruses are trying to multiply themselves (as Agent Smith is doing), kill the others, but not kill themselves. This is breaking some of the ancient rules of programming, and as in the first instance the machines were programmed by men, I don't buy this! This is a minor thing, but be aware there are some others "minor" things which "are not there", if you know what I mean.
And why Neo is still fighting Agent Smith and the other agents? For we know that at the end of first Matrix movie Neo found another way of fighting and destroying them. But no, he's not using this skill in this sequel. Why? Maybe because with this skill the movie shouldn't be so amazing (talking about fight scenes, of course) and wouldn't earn so much money in the cinemas around the world. But, let's be serious, the Wachowski brothers should have been much more careful with the script, for God's sake.
Keanu Reeves unfortunately proves once again that he doesn't know how to play a role. He seems lost and confused for the whole movie, what he's saying doesn't have that "think" to catch you and except the battle scenes and flying scenes there's nothing more about him. Definitively the best characters in this movie are Trinity and, maybe unexpected, Agent Smith.
I'm not going only to criticise this movie, for it is actually an enjoyable movie. But I'm really sorry that the action scenes seem to be drawn back by a script written too much in a hurry.
For it wouldn't happened so, the movie would be a much bigger hit than the original Matrix. But no, it's just an enjoyable movie, but with a pathetic script and too much philosophy about too common things.
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Review by
BlueCaracal
on 13th Aug 2004
User Rating : 7
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When I first saw this sequel to the Matrix I must admit that I was very disappointed. The wonderfully dark tone and uncomfortable atmosphere of the first Matrix seemed to have been replaced with a confusing mess of over complicated arrogance. A good plot is one of the most essential ingredients of any good film, but it is the quality and not the quantity of the plot that is important. Reloaded had enough plots for twenty films, but none of good quality.
Having recently bought the video, I ...
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Review by
michaelcharlton121
on 10th Oct 2003
User Rating : 9
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If anyone is thinking "what an idiot how could he not understand it" no one can say when neo was in the white room with tv's they totally understood it straight away. However away from the bad points, The Matrix - Reloaded is a must buy or see. Though its not got the same steady storyline as its origional its still got the best special effects we have ever seen. Just one more thing before i leave is it just me or did Trinity look more granyish in this one no one can say they didn't enjoy watchin ...
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Review by
Graysqwelch.
on 12th Jul 2003
User Rating : 9
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The Matrix Reloaded, having waited since 1999 for this film i was excited to get to see it, we sit in the cinema and for the first minute or so you would be forgiven for thinking it was the original matrix. Once you get into it through there is a lot more action but a but less talking which means while you watch the film you are thinking wow but once you get out you think why did that happen. What the matrix did with guns last time it does this time with cars. With the bullet time effect you can ...
Graysqwelch.'s full review | 159 words
Review by
Eddybaby.
on 3rd Jun 2003
User Rating : 9
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8.00pm, Premiere Night, The Matrix - Reloaded. Me & Bethan (The Boss) were impatiently waiting in a mile long snake of people to enter screen 7. Popcorn aplenty we headed in. The first thing that strikes you is the near exactness of the opening credits to the first film. Nice, tight and in keeping with the martix tradition. I shall not give anything away by telling you what happens, but the clips that you see on TV and in the Trailers are even more spectacular in the big screen, even though y ...
Eddybaby.'s full review | 271 words
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