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Summary: Not your typical Hollywood action flick
Review: I am disappointed to see that many people really hated this film, but I believe that is because the film did not fit their standard template for a Hollywood action film.
So what if the rave scene went on a bit? I think that scene was there to give us an idea of life outside the Matrix and the culture of Zion.
The film's plot may seem confusing to most but I can see that it all provides a lead up to the plot twist at the end. It is not simply adequate to show a load of fight scenes and turn it into a video game.
For anybody wanting to buy this DVD who has not already seen the movie, I would recommend you rent it first to see which camp you fall into ( lovers/haters ).
If you hate the film, walk away but if you like it go out and buy the DVD and try to unravel the plot. I think that a lot of the earlier scenes provide some clues about what is going on.
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Summary: More is not always better!
Review: It's a little hard to review "The Matrix Reload" for two reasons. The first is that it is a sequel to a highly original and entertaining sci-fi classic, "The Matrix" [1999], and the higher the innovation quota in the original, the less likely it is that a sequel can equal it, much less top it. The other is that it is itself the first half of a four-hour plus super sequel. [The second half, "Matrix Revolutions" opens in theaters in November.] Doing sequels back-to-back is not a new idea. It was done in the late 80s with the ones for "Back to the Future". What I can say so far is that the sequels are at once technically brilliant yet overblown. It's a case of bigger not always being better. The sequel finds us deep in the bowels of the planet, where human escapees from the matrix's machine have built a city. The machines are rapidly burrowing towards the city with the intention of destroying it. Characters from the original movie are fighting to save the city. Basically, that is the plot. The special effects are awesome, no doubt about it. But there is a truism about movies which I don't think changes much over time: Everything that happens should propel the plot along. Like many recent big budget movies, this one seems entranced by its own special effects. For example, there is a spectacular chase sequence on a freeway that runs fourteen minutes. My question, though, is whether or not this would have been a better movie if this sequence had been cut to, say, seven minutes? Whatever happened to less is more? When did excess become a positive thing? As for the philosophical meaning of these movies, that is up to the individual viewer. I find musings over the meaning here to be bogus. To me, these are just movies. There is no deep meaning. Either they work as entertainment, or they don't. To me, "The Matrix Reloaded" works just some the time.
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Summary: I wish I could have give it no star.
Review: They don't fight, they dance. They make love and all you she is their sweaty face in pain. They wear african dress style (can someone explain me why?), it's a laught, but it's not funny. Save your time and your money. This is the worst movie of 2003.
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Summary: A Worthy Sequel-Ben N.
Review: Walking out of this movie i was somewhat dissapointed to see the lack of intresting plot that was so much desired in the first film to be somewhat erased from this film but as i watch this movie again i begin to realize maybe its just me i now understand the story and really think that it is better than the original it has overall alot more special effects a more deeper plot which may spark alot of questions that may not be awnsered until matrix revolutions opening November 5th 2003, yet this is a really good film a must buy on DvD i give it two thumbs up "MUCH MORE THAN A FIRST RATE ACTION EPIC
WE ARE IN THAT RARE TERRITORY WHERE THE SEQUEL
IS A TRIUMPH OVER THE ORIGINAL" -Richard Roeper, Ebert and Roeper
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Summary: Good Enough
Review: What can you say about this film that hasn't been said already? Maybe it didn't live up to the hype. But with these kinds of expectations to fulfill how could it? Here are my thoughts on The Matrix Reloaded in descending order of what worked well: action sequences - spectacular; music - great, really pulse-pounding; acting - passable; plot - hard to follow the first time through. Finally, there were a couple scenes that appeared unnecessarily risque and gratuitous. The bevy of DVD special features should please most people. The MTV Movie Awards clip is very amusing. Audio commentaries and outtakes would've rounded off the extras perfectly but sadly, aren't included. The Matrix Reloaded is a good, not great, movie. There's just not a lot of revolutionary material here. Don't expect the high level of surprise and awe the first film delivered. Watch it with that frame of mind and you won't be disappointed.
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Summary: WOW
Review: This was a great continuation of the matrix series. The effects were even better than the first, and the story line created just enough suspense to drive me crazy until november.
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Summary: Great looking canvas but Reloaded does not want to be a film
Review: The first Matrix was the Phantom Menace that George Lucas did not see coming... and neither did we. The original Matrix was an underdog of a movie that became a hot thing AFTER people ran out of the cinemas with their jaws covered in popcorn crumbs from hitting the sticky floor. The Matrix did have some stunning special effects, but bullet-time was nothing new. We had seen this effect in commercials, documentaries and some smaller films. However the Matrix used bullet-time as a plot device and that is why it stunned everyone. The Matrix also had this whole "mind-trip" conspiracy thing going that really drove the story forward. It was easy to understand - cyberpunk hacker is the chosen one, discovers that he is living inside a computer generated reality and uses his talents to help save mankind in a superhero sort of way. Wonderful stuff. The Matrix Reloaded suffers from not understanding what made the first film so good. It misses all the "mind-trip" stuff - ALL of it entirely, thus rendering Reloaded devoid of the mystical/anarchic/quasi-religious bent that the first one had. The "mind-trip" stuff messes up in three critical parts to the film - the meeting with the Oracle, the meeting with the Architect and a new revelation for Morpheus about the prophecy. Instead of playing games with the audience, like the first matrix did, this one is trying to explain things - all of which is a plot device to help forward the storyline - but instead it has a reflexive effect of simply nullifying what made the first Matrix so enchanting. Reloaded is thus left extremely open to interpretation: nothing in the first film is valid, and thus everything in this one is confusing. So instead of being intrigued you are left feeling stumped and bothered by a sequel that seems to be battering the original to death while at the same time trying to be better than the first. The first half hour of the Matrix is a snooze-fest. It spends time too much time on Zion, introducing new characters, and trying to setup the plot which is.... nothing, except that Neo must go visit the oracle to figure out what to do next before Zion is capitulated by a load of drones sent to attack it. But does Neo not control the Matrix somehow? Lots of what you took you granted goes out the window by this point, while the filmmakers concentrate on a sex scene between Neo and Trinity followed up on by a "burning man" dance routine that has no reason for being in this picture. There is bound to be trouble brewing. The audience is asleep until.... Neo meets the Oracle and then after that Reloaded really shows us why we came to see it by putting on the special effects in a "never-seen-before" sort of way. Twenty minutes into the film and you will understand that the filmmakers are not really that pushed to deliver on the story. What they want to do is create a movie that is actually the equivalent of a new "Theme Park" attraction. So basically Reloaded is playing down the story and replacing it with multi-million dollar special effects. With that in mind Reloaded is an experience like no other, but the story is given the back door treatment fairly quickly. There are some surprises in store and some plot twists that will keep you going but lurking in the background is an entity called - Joel Silver and he just wants the audience to sit there with mouths open during the special effects sequences and hopefully all other misgivings will be put aside when the audience starts doing just that. The truth is that Reloaded is a revolution in special effects, but is also Joel Silver marketing at its finest. You know that when you have seen it once that you will want to see it again, but as for the plot and storyline... well Silver thinks that is all just cannon fodder for the canvas.... and all he wants to do is paint. George Lucas can maybe breath a little easier now.
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Summary: One great big YAWN...
Review: Sorry, but this movie was ANNOYING. The fight and chase scenes were excessive and got boring after a while (the highway chase might be an exception). Orpheus'--er, I mean Morpheus'--"prophesizing" was dull. I skipped over the Zion Orgy/Keanu's Butt scene--ick. The plot (as other reviewers have mentioned) was nonexistent. Most of the minor characters, especially Persephone and her husband (name?), were really, REALLY annoying. The only thing I liked on this entire DVD was the "behind the scenes" look at the highway chase. Not worth the money.
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Summary: Matrix-Reloaded into sequel hoopla!
Review: Let's face it, we were all anxiously waiting for the follow-up to the 1999 original that grabbed us all by the nuts and totally reinvented the sci-fi genre. For those years in between the sequel and the original everyone would talk about how "insane" the new movies would be, and finally the day came "Matrix-Reloaded" hit theaters, we ran to see it just as the film-makers had hoped, and then it was a thud! A thud heard across the country from countless fans. What the hell happened to our beloved franchise? What were the brothers thinking? Sure there's some kick-ass stunts and sequences but altogether this"Reloaded" is just another LOAD!
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Summary: MATRIX 2 NOT AS ENLIGHTNENING WE WANT ENLIGHTENMENT
Review: To the Wakowski bros. I take my hat off to you, you have created a great work and whether people like it or not is not the point any longer, Matrix part one is magnificent and will always remain so, I wished that you could have blown us all away with part two, first plot wise then with your special effects, this was not the case but i beleive in you not to disappoint us in part 3. Part 3 is already made but I hope that you will have made the immediate attentive focus on the script to leave your audience with not just another movie to watch but something that is life altering, that leaves us with awe, that leaves us feeling we too CAN FLY! that we can break free that there is more and that will remain in the back of our minds no matter where we are, whether taking out the trash or waiting on tables or fixing a car or designing a new rocketship, that you gave us the opportunity to connect with something...out there, something greater as you successfully did with part 1. No matter what happens I hope that part 3 will excel in all ways and be a breakthru film but if it isn't than i hope that you the Wachowski bros. will not stop but go back to the drawing board and bring us something else that will...in the future, never give up, never stop, we need your good minds to bring us HIGHER!
That said, now to the fans, matrix 2 could have been better than the first, it wasnt although the special effect were unbeleivable although the one part where keanu is fighting the agents was poorly done you could tell they were cgi (this was a failure the whole philosophy in holywood is to fool us into thinking it's real, but dont go down too hard on the guys responsible for that i dont think it is good to be able to make computer generated images look too human as eventually it will be used for evil purposes). The dialogue dissapoints no enlightenment here, and that was what got us all hooked wasn't it. The fights were excellent, Keanu we love you and you are a good actor to hell with the criticism and ofcourse the magnificent Laurence Fishburne and the beautiful, sensual Carrie Ann Moss (please i hope that you and Keanu patched everything up and are at peace) as well as some of the new faces, the master computer was fascinating, the oracle, the special effects. The music, the sound effects, the cinematography and the sets all TOP TOP NOTCH, may matrix 3 be the ultimate, may it not dissappoint but live up to everything we know and belevive it can be...not another action flick but ever so much more.
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