Rating: 
Summary: Excellent movie
Review: The fight scenes were great; the graphics were amazing... the dancing was a bit fluffy (is that all they do down there... well, but, hey, what else is there to do?)... worthy of being the Matrix 2 (but, of course, not even close to beating #1).
Rating: 
Summary: Say What?
Review: If you disengage your brain you might enjoy Elrond of Rivendale by case attacking Neo in his Priest's get up, but by the time, you are skirting dangerous toward brain burnout! I have watched it several times, thinking maybe it was the mood I was in, but nope. Matrix was a mind-blowing one-trick-pony that just did not stretch into to a second movie well. There are a lot of interesting scenes, but Neo aka up up and away, just brought a giggle out in me. The LONG action sequences make you want to go okay, enough! Less is More is NOT the banner of this movie! After Neo b**** slap's Elrond and his brother Elrond and his other brother Elrond 100 times it just redefines redundant. Then Neo reaching in to pull out the magic bullet...oh, please...sigh...and the religious overtones are so pretensious.It was good to see Anthony Zerbe a long under rated talent get a nice spot. The effect are good, just overdone ad nauseoum. Elrond take the ship to into the West quickly!
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Summary: Prepare to Plug In Again to ¿The Matrix¿
Review: The Matrix: Reloaded is one of those rare sequels that is astonishingly bigger and better than the first installment, which is in this case, The Matrix. Reloaded is an immensely skillful sci-fi adventure, combining the usual elements: heroes and villains, special effects and stunts, chases and explosions, and romance. It develops its world with more detail than the first movie. It gives us our first glimpse of the underground human city of Zion, moves closer to the center of the secret of the Matrix, and promotes its hero, Neo, from confused recruit to a superhero in training. As we learned in The Matrix, the Machines need human bodies, millions and millions of them, for their ability to generate electricity. In an astonishing sequence, we see countless bodies locked in pods around central cores that seem to extend forever. If you don't remember, the Matrix is the virtual reality that provides the minds of these bodies with the illusion that they are active and productive. Neo (Keanu Reeves) has been required to fly, to master martial arts, and to learn that his faith and belief can make things happen. His fights all take place within virtual reality spaces, while he lies back in a chair and is linked to the cyber world, but he can really be killed, because if the mind thinks it is dead, "the body is controlled by the mind."
The visionary Morpheus, inspired by the prophecies of the Oracle, instructed Neo--who gained the confidence to leap great distances, to fly and in Reloaded destroys dozens of clones of Agent Smith (Hugo Weaving) in martial combat. That fight scene is made with the wonders of digital effects and the choreography of the Hong Kong action director Yuen Wo Ping, who also did the fights in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. It is probably one of the three great set pieces in the movie. The second comes when Morpheus (Fishburne) returns to Zion and addresses a crowd of maybe over two million. After his speech, the citizens dance wildly in a drum- frenzy, which is later interrupted by Neo and Trinity (Carrie-Ann Moss) having sex. For once, it actually looked real, but you can never really tell. The third sensational sequence is a chase involving cars, motorcycles and trailer trucks, with superbly choreographed moves including leaps into the air as a truck continues to move underneath. That this scene logically takes place in cyberspace does not ruin its thrilling 14-minute fun ride.
When the Matrix trilogy is complete, will it and all its components come together to be one intense cinematic masterpiece? Only time will tell, and much will be revealed in Matrix: Revolutions. In the meantime, this second stage of the cycle is trying hard to make us suspect real greatness is not unlikely, and it's the one movie this summer that you just cannot afford to miss.
Rating: 
Summary: WOW! Better than the first!
Review: I am not going to go on & on about this movie. But I am sick and tired of all the people who are giving it only 1-star. This movie is "5-star" worthy, action-packed, full of special effects, and I will quote someone else on this one, "just completely cool and awesome." I think that says it all!
Rating:
Summary: The best
Review: I am the biggest matrix fan of all time. Though its not better than the lotr the two towers it is awesome. No movie has sh-t on this series so get off of it and know it is the best.
Rating: 
Summary: Great for effects but the story needed work but an ok film
Review: As special effects go, MR topped the first film however as far as story, character development, and suspense, MR was really mediocre, and I can say this because I am a Matrix fan but also a movie critic who is aware when a sequel is just made for the big bucks. The Wachowski brothers, really giving a damn if they really delivered a good film. I mean it's like the George Lucas thing I've mentioned a dozen times on here, the directors can make a somewhat average film with awesome special effects and get away because they know they're is going to be a bunch of fans going to see the movie just to see the effects,stuff blow up, and cleavege.
Ok MR is the sequel to the 1999 Matrix where a young hacker named Neo (Keanu Reeves) is chosen to be the one in a computer generated world mingling with reality. Neo is told to ''he is the one'' by Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne) and his leather wearing sexy friend Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss). At the of the Matrix becomes aware of his superpowers and realizes that he is the one, and learns briefly of the history of Zion and it's enemies,including mechanical insects called ''The Osiris'' (who also make a brief return in this sequel.
Now fast forward to the MR and we know get a look at the city of Zion that Morpheus was talking about. However, trouble lurks when Morpheus learns that the Osiris are making a return to crush the city. Morpheus prepares the city for battle with a bunch of cliched speeches, however he also wants to contact the Oracle to see if the prophecy for Zion and Neo will be fullfilled and thus end the war for Zion. Meanwhile, Neo has now grasps and flaunts his special powers as the one which include flying (yes like Superman, God how original lol), expertise in the martial arts. However prior to this in a badly staged but entertaining scene Neo has a long vision of Trinity invading a building and blowing up with a motorcycle, while she makes a nice squat landing. : -0 What Genius!!! His vision ends terribly know when he sees that Trinity is fatally wounded in midair by one the computer clone agents of Agent Smith (Hugo Weaving). Neo pushes aside the incident for the moment, but does not forget it.
So now we begin with some of the cheesy cliches in the film including the public speech Morpheus gives to the Zion citizens to fight the Osiris:
Morpheus ''Tonight let them remember this is Zion and we are not afraid'' (queue up the Extras for a loud roar. LMAO).
So Neo and Morpheus eventually leave Zion to meet the Oracle while the Zion forces prepare for the situation of the Osiris however problems arise again when the Oracle (a worthless character play a worthless actress) tells them that their problems with the prophecy of Neo.
So then Neo meets the allknowing Oracle (Gloria Foster) and finds out how idiotic she is LOL
Neo: ''I suppose the obvious questions is how can
I trust you ?''
Oracle ''Bingo''
LOL What mediocre writing and this is really an annoying part of the movie because the Oracle just basically like a parrot repeats with sarcasm what Neo questions
and answers. LOL So basically the Oracle in MR like in the first movie has really no purpose.
Neo does learn from the conversation I mean he learns what he already knows from the Oracle:
The Oracle is basically just a mediocre program in the Matrix. He learns that the programs in the Matrix like Agent Smith are now hacking other programs and
becoming stronger posing a threat to the Matrix universe, and this is confirmed when Agent Smith surprises Neo with a sneak attack that ends in laughable fashion with Agent Smith multiplying himself in characters to kill Neo but still failing LOL. This one of the most awful, and laughing hysterical fight sequences. You remember those dance fight scenes from ''West Side Story'' with Natalie Wood? LOL Thats exactly what you get here. It's so bloody awful it's funny, MST3K material in fact.
The badly acted fight scene ends with jokes with
Morpheus asking Neo if it was Agent Smith:
Morpheus ''Was it Smith?''
Neo ''Yes''
Morpheus ''Now theres more than one of them?''
Neo ''A lot more'' LMAO
So Neo now wants to seek out the source and origin of the Matrix and he learns of a keymaker that holds a part of the answer to the Matrix and a couple of new characters , however trouble abounds again when Neo meets the Maitre'D (David Franklin) who holds the keymaker (whose basically a cheap asian locksmith guy lol) and does give him up. Futhermore the Maitre' D sends the ''The Twins'', special programs like Agent Smith with special abilities and who are now hell
bent on killing Neo and his friends.....
The MR as the name comes loaded with special effects. The action including the nearly 7 minute car chase scene with Neo illustrating his super powers in that scenes is great. The special effects and budget I read costs over $200
million dollars and it does show for the most part.
That pretty much is it for the Pros believe it or not now we get to the cons.
The MR is the least successful sequel with the largest number of worthless characters I've seen. I felt tortured when I watch these crappy characters on screen and made my self a sandwitch until we got to the point of the film , the action and effects including being blown up. lol Not really. As stated by first half of the film I knew it was already a mess, a nice entertaining mess filled with special effects.
First there is the short scene with one of the counselor of Zion (Jon Voight) that is incredibly annoying who basically just explains that he is an idiot that doesnt understand the way the world works. LOL Seriously thats the whole the point of this character. Then we have the character of Link , the black hacker (portrayed by mediocre actor Harold Perrineau Jr.) best known for his antics as the wheelchair bound convicted rapist in HBO's ''Oz'' (now over thank God). He's characters basically is there as comic relief (as if we needed any with this mess.) and act as the cheerleader for Neo and company. Oh yean and he has a worthless girl too.
One critic said that MR fully develops the relationship between Trinity and Morpheus. LOL What relationship. At heart of both this films is that while Trinity and Morpheus
are strong, they are also weak and they need Neo to bail out of critical situations of which they are helpless. That is the relationship. Then there is the character of Niobe (Jada Pinkett Smith, Will Smith's Wife), who is the ex-girlfriend of Morpheus, who comes back to Zion to lead the fight against the Osiris
All in all, I could go on and on about the flaws of MR it is heavily flawed, it was a blockbuster for the effects only folks, but with the somewhat absurd story in this, the movies
deserves ends up just being a "popcorn" movie.
Rating:
Summary: Great Follow-up, brothers Wachoski!
Review: Often during the sequels to movies most are disppointed. With the exception of a less than great plot--tHE HIGHWAY SPEEDCHASE ARE WORTH THE PRICE ALON!!! I've always liked the spectacular, esp in highway chase scenes. This by itself makes the movie worth getting [about 30 min chase seen with outta this world effects].
Anything extra the film uses in fx is just a special added bonus. Overall the storyline of the first Matrix was good; here you get less plot but bigger bang for your buck,,,just watch the chase scene...you know you want to
When I worked as a medic I woulda tripped for an ambulance run with this much adrenaline!
Rating:
Summary: deeper the rabbit hole goes
Review: The Wachowski brothers are amazing in this sequal
just as much wicked action as the first
more romance added
more tender shots
more creepiness
more action
more twists
more everything
I got this on dvd and shall watch it again and again and again
the sequal could never let me down
it's just as hardcore as the first Matrix
amazing follow up guys
Rating:
Summary: The Best Silent Movie Since ....
Review: Seriously, you just want to stick a paperclip through ear drum if that what it takes to make the dialogue stop! Painfully shallow - really they should have brought in some professors to consult on the ideas and dialogue.
Rating: 
Summary: Horrible sequel
Review: Considering how good the original was I assumed that the sequel would be nearly as good. Of course I knew it wouldn't be exactly on par with the first, but it would at least be entertaining. It was not. Some fight sequences were exciting, I admit, but for the most part is seemed as though it was slowly dying. The plot was trite, the characters wooden, and this forced sexuality and romantic drivel was really annoying. I didn't like any of the new actors (Mrs. Will Smith? Please! I can't decide whether I should laugh or vomit first) and thought the orgy/dance scene in Zion was ridiculous. It was as if they were trying to recreate an MTV video where everyone was wearing earthy-toned clothes. Everything was so contrived and BORING. The only really spectacular scene was when Keanu Reeves was fighting off the thousands of attacking agent clones. The first half was full of pointless sentimentality that left me with an aftertaste which didn't disappear as the action scenes increased. All in all, if you saw "The Matrix" and loved it, then don't watch "The Matrix: Reloaded" because you'll be sorely disappointed.
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