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Summary: A great sequel
Review: When i saw the first matrix my mind was blown away. So i knew i had to see the second one.It has great special affects and the scene on the highway will keep you at the edge of your seat.This movie is about saving the last of human kind so it is not exactly always on Neo but he does play a huge role in this movie as the last. The only thing about this movie i dislike is that Neo is alpowerful and no one can beat him. Unlike the first and third where smith is stronger. Personally this is my least favorite of the trilogy but it is still a great movie.(Revolutions is my favorite and the original is second). But thats just my opinion. To see what yours is you'll just have to see the movie.
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Summary: ALEXS CAPSULE MOVIE REVIEWS
Review: Highlights: special-effects; style
Lowpoints: plot; acting
Conclusion: It's as simple as it gets - I found the original Matrix way too overrated (Tarkovsky exploited those themes visually long before the Wachowskis), but also way above average in terms of Hollywood fare. The second part is just the same for me - good special effects (just fun to watch, rather fake-looking actually, except the 40-minute race and Neo flying), good style, bad plot (been there, done that) and wooden acting. Fishburne runs through the religious routine as Morpheus, Carrie-Ann Moss is blank and a tool for wires as Trinity, and Neo is wandering from one plot point to the other like a puppet.
Hell, this is all right though, maybe too pretentious and long, but definitely worth $10. Just to see the rest of the world catch on and be disappointed.
The Matrix really isn't that special, people. Watch Wachowski's earlier 'Bound' instead, now THAT'S original.
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Summary: Enjoyable movie, but one scene lowered the rating
Review: I really enjoyed this movie, except for one very long scene. I didn't appreciate the long, elaborate sex scene with the wild party with naked women. Why, oh why, do movies always have to add these in? It can ruin a good story.
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Summary: So Sad, So Lousy
Review: I really wanted to like this movie, since I loved the first one. It did make more sense the second time around. Maybe if I watch it about 5 times I'll like it. Don't have that much time, though.
Rating: 
Summary: very good
Review: this moovie was acually very good and it deserves more credit!!!
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Summary: Certainly not more than 2
Review: I loved the first 1, but this 1? Pfff just 2 much crap, Neo can handle 100 agents, Neo can reanimate, Neo Neo Neo. It diserved 2 stars from me because of the special effects where nice. And Jada Pinkett is hot, ow yeah also nice car that she is driving. And the scene where everybody is dancing like monkeys for like 5 minutes?? What was that all about????
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Summary: Five Stars, BUTTTTTT only for the Special Effects
Review: Story was kind of lame, but the SPECIAL EFFECTS are well worth it. I wish I could have seen this in the theaters, but the bad/mixed reviewes kept me away. I still really think this movie is a great movie, but only for the eye candy.
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Summary: *BETRAYED*
Review: I know I was not alone in the feeling of excitement that was created when the first installment of the Matrix trilogy was released. There, on big screens all across the globe, was a movie daring to tell the truth about the perceptual prison that humanity finds itself trapped in. While many appreciated the movie for its stunning looks and breakthrough special effects, what made the Matrix film so successful was its ability to twist your mind as much as the now famous "bullet cam" twisted your view. Parts 2 & 3 have left us with a stunning illustration of what can only be understood as Illuminati sabotage. Gone from this sequel and the final movie are those breakthrough insights that had so much potential to wake people up. There are some thought provoking scenes but none of them progress to an empowering understanding like the first one featured. Instead, the sequels rely on an even more gigantic helping of animated violence to resolve its conflicts, unsuccessfully I might add. This aspect alone should warn the unlearned viewer that something is amiss. In the final installment... Does the world get destroyed? No, it does not. What we are left with, as the final vision of peace, is a beautiful sunrise shining triumphantly over a glistening corporate cityscape. We are told that those who want to be free of the matrix will be released, but the remaining unawakened will continue to be food for the machines and their matrix lives continued in subservience to their corporate masters. As for the released humans, the movie is silent about their future. Apparently, they will continue to live like rats in the bowels of the earth, as the planet's surface remains environmentally scorched and inhabited by the machines. This is a resolution that is totally unacceptable. It was the efforts of the awakened humans to liberate their trapped brethren that created the original plot conflict in the first place. Now we are supposed to believe that because the machines stopped hunting down the free humans in Zion(?) that those same humans will also stop trying to free those who remained trapped in the Matrix? Viewers are supposed to believe that the best life humans can hope to achieve is one where we still slave most of our lives away to corporate power structures in clean environments? Come-ON Man. What kind of resolution would the unlearned hold out for? Perhaps an insight or two into the multi-dimensional nature of our existence could be explored. It is clear the Wachowski brothers, the makers of the Matrix trilogy, had some message of importance about that very issue. Death was a central event in each of the first two films. Neo's resurrection in the first film illustrated the power of belief while Trinity's revival in the second film attested to the emotional power found in love. In the disappointing finale, both characters die without meaningful insight. It is hard to believe that this anti-climax is the culmination of the previous two film's efforts. To be balanced, it may be that my disappointment is the result my ego's unwillingness to accept death as the final event of awareness, beyond which nothing exists. The human survival instinct is so strong that perhaps we falsely project ourselves into realities that exist only in the mind, to be turned off when the brain ceases all functioning. As the character 'Agent Smith' relates to Neo in his final battle, "Surely you must see by now that your desire for meaning is futile. It's nothing more than a flaw in your fragile species!" But then I am reminded as to who actually provided the funding for these epic blockbusters. Movies don't get made on the charity of people. The big bucks needed to finance movies these days means that artists often have to cow tow to people well funded by the existing power structure. While the profit motive may suppress some corporate objections to empowering movie themes, you can be sure that the most insightful points will be left on the cutting room floor. The Zionist movie studios seem to have succeeded once again in protecting the true matrix that blinds the masses. But in the obviously disappointing ending of Matrix Revolutions, there may be some redeeming quality. If humans are aware enough to see how brutally the script and storyline were gutted, then perhaps one might WAKE-UP to the "true matrix" that the films tried to illustrate metaphorically. In the final analysis, the defeat of the true matrix is possible once humans tap into the power of their multidimensional natures. That our consciousness exists beyond the physical must be converted by the unlearner from a belief into a known. Armed with this knowledge, humans may yet find the courage that is necessary to speak truth to power.
The end of the matrix need not be brought about through the gratuitous violence depicted in the movies, but can be achieved through one's willingness to let love and truth animate their actions and understandings.
~ unlearning.org
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Summary: Are you serious?
Review: I have been reading some reviews that other people have written and a few times I have come across people comparing these movies to Star Wars. Are you serious? Were you people drugged when you watched these movies, or are you just incrediabily simple? If you like flashy lights and no sense then I could see how you would like this movie, but if you have half a brain you would realize that this movie blows. It's just as bad as Revolutions, which made the undertones of Neo being Jesus so blanted that they were basically overtones. Anyway, this movie has nothing on the original Star Wars triliogy and it really isn't better than any of the new crappy Star Wars either. If you wanna see a good movie look elsewhere.
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Summary: The Matrix Reloaded
Review: I have not heard so much empty pompous talk in a movie for a long time. One of my daughters was very amused when I would guess when the next wise remark of the type "becuase that is the way it is meant to be" would be used. I am impressed, though, by sexual orgies as preparation for the war. I think that the world military strategists should watch and learn. As for special effects, there is nothing that we have not seen before. And frankly, for somebody who actually knows a little bit about martial arts, the Peter Pan - like stunts are boring and stupid. The whole movie is pointless. I am not sure if I have seen a worse movie in the last ten years. And God knows that I have seen some real stinkers.
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