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Summary: I know I shouldnt but I do
Review: I believe this film would have been so great IF everyone else hadnt totally ruined the 'bullet time' effect by copying it and making it so damn cheesy nowadays. I cant watch the first film now with the same appeal as before simply because of these other movie makers making all things 'bullet time' so predictable...This film is...good, I know going by my gut feeling I should hate it, I understand a past comment made by it being like an over lenghtly sentence about something you were interested in the first place, but the I cant help but love it so there. I hope the third film will make up for it ten fold, I`ve read that REVOLUTIONS is gonna be a 2 hour all out war!! But lets not forget the storyline huh!! Well lets hope so
C'mon WB save us
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Summary: Not as Bad as Reviewed, Not as Good as Promoted
Review: Not a bad film but does not hold up to the original. The hallmark of good science fiction is both the ability to suspend disbelief while at the same time allowing for "science" that seems to work. Following this idea, we can forgive George Lucas for having star fighters that make noise and explode in space in the Star Wars films, yet it just doesn't work for me when Neo, who has the ability to fly now is fighting the ever-reproducing Agent Smith(s) and continues to battle all of them when he could just fly away...... This film could have really benefitted from another look at editing. The story didn't flow well with some scenes way over-entended and others lacking more detail. Thankfully there were no Ewok-like creatures during the city scenes. That kept the picture at 3 stars. I expect I will like this film better after a couple of viewings on DVD, but the trip to the theatre was a waste.
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Summary: At Least as Good as the First One
Review: I think this one was as great as the first one for me. I definitely think it is worth seeing a few times, and has a great mixture of the intellectual and action genres. The cliff hanger was a bit painful, but I think that was the point, right? ;)
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Summary: Treading the thin line between masterful and irritating
Review: The first Matrix was one of the greatest films ever. This was because it combined the sort of blistening action sequences the likes of which had never been seen before with philosophical underpinnings and a coherant plot which held the whole thing together and had merits in its own right. Well, whats changed in Reloaded? Well, the blistering action sequences are still there (this time the memorable moments are those with the many Agent Smiths all fighting Neo together). And so is the philosophy, though its no longer an underpinning and characters now wax lyrical philosophically every now and then between action sequences. Herein lies the problem with the Matrix 2. The philosophy's brought so out into the open that it no longer feels clever, and instead feels contrived and quasi-psuedo. And the plot now feels like simply a vehicle to carry both the action sequences and the philosophy, rather than a coherant and exciting statement in its own right. It feels fragmented - no longer one joyful melange of everything that made the first movie great, but instead everything served seperately. This is certainly not to say that The Matrix Reloaded is not a good film. It is beyond cool, and still very exciting to watch. However, from an analytical point of view, Reloaded is a step down from the original. Parts of the plot feel far-fetched and irritating - nevertheless, it will be most interesting to see how the story is concluded in Part 3.
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Summary: Matrix Reoaded
Review: This movie was a supreme disappointment. The combination of a thrown together plot, mediocre acting, and repetitive predictable action scenes makes me want to warn the world about wasting their hard earned money on this film. The first Matrix movie was everything this isn't; sleek and mysterious is replaced by corny and boring. The lead character Neo (Keanu Reeves) is now able to fly around like superman and he even holds his arms out the same way. As an action movie fan I never thought I could be bored with an action sequence but the scenes where much too drawn out and the same karate moves are used over and over. I felt like I was watching 30 minutes of plot spread very thinly over almost two and a half hours of screen time. Some instances are actually laughable, at one point this woman demands a kiss from Neo and if it's passionate enough she'll turn her back on everything in her life and help him. Another comical part was when they were driving down the highway and cars just started lifting off the ground for no reason and crashing. All in all this was over two hours of my life that I feel have been completely wasted.
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Summary: Something for Everyone !
Review: I saw The Matrix Reloaded on opening weekend at the gorgeous Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. I very rarely go see a movie twice, but I am planning to go see this film again in a few more weeks. Reloaded has something for everyone. From the fabulous Sci-fi special effects, to the romance between Neo and Trinity, to little sparks of comedy here and there - it is definately the best movie of the summer. One thing Reloaded has that leaves most sci-fi lacking, is the fabulous romantic scenes. Talk about one hot love-making session with Neo and Trinity! Women will enjoy the romantic element of the film, while their boyfriends enjoy the special effects. This is a movie everyone will enjoy.
Don't forget though, there is a third installment on the way. So pieces of the movie left hanging will be resolved in a few months. Once the trilogy is complete, the series should go down in movie-making history as the top films of the genre.
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Summary: much better than the 1st
Review: after seeing this movie i cant believe ppl thought this movie wuz bad. i found it rather good and definately better than the 1st. while not wanting 2 see this movie at all because other than the last half hour of the 1st matrix it [stinks] i wuz convincewd 2 see it by my friends.i thought it wuz very good. it did not have needless talking which is why the 1st 1 wuznt very good it had dumb talking and the plot really hardly makes any sense. the matrix reloaded wuz just ongoing action. it does feel a bit dragging at sum parts but it wuz overall good. and much better than the 1st
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Summary: It seems that fate is not without a sense of irony...
Review: Although there are many good reasons not to like this movie, I can't help but think that it rocks. First, this movie is really only part 1 of a longer movie as it ends on a "to be continued" cliffhanger. Second, the really cheesy parts (the rave dance and the "Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome"-like Zion council -- hence the 4 stars instead of 5) are only a minor part of the entire flick. Plus, it's hard to evaluate the impact of this movie on the enitre trilogy storyline before Matrix Revolutions comes out. Granted, Matrix Reloaded presents many twists to the original Matrix. The notion that "The One" is actually a flaw in the equation of the matrix itself was very refreshing to my mind (Neo is the 6th version of this flaw BTW). Also, the concept of rogue programs finding a sense of individuality (thereby becoming obsolute to the matrix and marked for deletion) is very hip. Is the formation of rogue programs (such as the Keymaker or even the Oracle) serving a more complex need of the matrix to develop consciousness or are these rogue programs only random events, acting individually from the matrix? Basically, in much the same way that primate brains work, AI consciousness will eventually begin to think heuristically (non-algorithmically), which is a true independence from being simply "programs" of the matrix. Thus, the sense of individual self manifests in individual matrix programs. As a result, the need for not only self preservation (the Keymaker and the Merovingian) but self replication (Agent Smith) arises within the AI construct. Ultimately, the architect tells Neo that his consciousness has been permenantely altered by his interaction with the matrix. We then see that Neo is capable of acting like an EMP on the squids outside the matrix in the "real world". This brings up many possibilities not the least of which is the notion that the "real world" could really be another matrix. Maybe they are matrices with matrices? Or perhaps this is an example, beautifully illustrated, of a feedback mechanism between software emulating reality and reality itself. Obviously Neo has affected Agent Smith allowing him to gain a sense of individual self and a need to infest all matrix programs with his code (very similar to a virus or better yet Richard Dawkin's "Selfish Gene"). So, programs within the matrix are permanently altered by the "real world" and the real world is apparently permanently altered by the matrix programs.
Is this perhaps the AI's way of evolving a true consciousness? Stay tuned for Matrix Revolutions....and stop being so damned critical, it's just a movie........
Oh and the effects are KILLER!!!!!
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Summary: As Bad As It Gets
Review: I love The Matrix! I loathe The Matrix: Unloaded. Went into this movie with absolutely zero expectations after the critics bashed it. I must say it far surpassed the lack of expectation, to a degree I thought was impossible. Plot: [weak] and predictable.
Action: over-computerized, done before, repetetive and sparse. The action WAS sparse. I think there was 5 minutes of action in the first 50 minutes of the movie. The 45 minute void was filled with the most generic, dialog-flat sci-fi storyline I have ever had the misfortune of witnessing. I think TNT must have helped write the script. When there was action, it almost put me to sleep. The same stunts over and over again, or stolen from the first movie. Some of the cheesiest lines I have heard since Saving Silverman. And now, Neo is basically Superman. I saw that movie 20 years ago. The Matrix: One of the top 15 movies of all time.
The Matrix Unloaded: One of the worst 3 movies of all time.
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Summary: ... did not explain the point of RELOADED
Review: ...SO I decided to give my explaination. The whole point about MATRIX RELOADED is that NEO and the first matrix movie is essentially a LOOP. And that RELOADED represented a sixth time the discovery of the ONE has occurred. The POINT why this is a shock is that the FIRST MATRIX movie about NEO's discovery of being the one is FAKE, UNREAL. The point the Wachowskis were trying to make is to make the audience EXPERIENCE the same emotion that NEO must have FELT when morpheus told him that his world is an ILLUSION. SO the first MATRIX was a LIE.. ONCE you understand this premise. All the dialogue begins to make sense. That's why the FRENCH program kept saying whether NEO knew WHY he was there, and WHY he survived his predecessors, and WHY it's just a GAME. THAT'S why the key-maker kept answering the way he did. He knew his role in the LOOP. SAME FOR AGENT SMITH. But the difference is that HE has mutated and replicated vs the previous loops. There were also clever references where the ending speech by the FRENCH character is the same as the ARCHITECT's when NEO makes his choice.
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