The Matrix Reloaded (2003)

Film: The Matrix Reloaded
Director: The Wachowski Brothers
IMDB User Rating: 7.0/10


Premise: Roughly six months after the original "Matrix", Neo begins to have nightmares about Trinity plunging to her death. Meanwhile, the rebels have returned to the city of Zion to learn that 250,000 sentinels are digging towards them in order to seek Zion and wipe out the human resistance. The Oracle gives Neo instructions to find the keymaker and seek out the source. If Neo fails the mission, then the rebellion will be crushed, and the machines will win the war. Written by keyser_soze2

Blog review: I think this is just stating the obvious about hype vs good product. Maybe one other movie Star Wars- the phantom Menace came with more hype. The revolutionary vision of the Brothers on the Matrix put their stamp on film history. So when The Matrix Reloaded came out everyone and their mothers were in line for this super long drawn out movie. As much as exec in the Industry believe effects can carry a film, they're sadly mistaken. What were the filmmakers thinking, was this story like the TV series Lost where the writers have to figure out ways to connect people. The ground work was laid in The Matrix and then they started throwing in scenes and things just stopped making sense. Don''t get me wrong the high stunt scene is amazing, great one scene in a movie that can rival "Decalogue" the ten part miniseries from Poland loosely based on the 10 commandments( that was a mouthful) The boat was sadly missed on this, much like seemingly every other sequel on the planet.

The Movie Drop off point: The point in which most people seem to cherish ( sarcasm) is the 15 minute rave scene int he catacombs of Zion. okay we get it, time to go to war, time to get you sex on. Time to feel free if only for a moment but in this case 15 minutes of slow motion gyrations. Was this needed? was this intricate to the story arc? No not in the slightest and then most people remember the scene with The Architect, this guy spewed more rhetoric then a presidential candidate in an election year. I have no idea what he was trying to get across that he couldn't in a few basic sentences. But now we had to hear minutes of convoluted dialogue. Again those moments if not one or both easily made people turned off by the film. When you tell people about the Matrix Reloaded don't you always seem to mention the pointless rave.

Recommendation: 4-10 - if this wasn't hyped so much it might have flown a little less under the radar.
Film Recommendation: The Matrix(99) Dark City (98) Equlibrium(02)