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Summary: "What a piece of Roger Corman influced Garbage."
Review: These are not movies, they are just video games with tons and tons of CGI and no story. There is no humanity in this story. Everyone acts like a machine. This is the movie that has largely destroyed science fiction as an artform, and become just another piece of mainstream movie made on a large budget, but having no substance to it.
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Summary: Does what it intends to do
Review: Definitely a worthy sequel. As a kid, I was indoctrinated by 'The Empire Strikes Back' to accept a movie that leaves me hanging for the next installment! I agree with the reviewers here that give 'Reloaded' a good review, but I have to make a couple of additional points in response to their critique.-The feel of the series is best thought of as a graphic novel brought to life. Therefore, wearing of sunglasses indoors at night, philisophical double-speak, and over-wrought drama are to be expected and even desired! This is also the reason for the music video-like choreography. Its a style choice, not meant to be realistic. -The matrix itself is a computer program, so I would expect a hundred Smiths fighting Neo to look like a video game - it is one! I haven't seen 'Revolutions' yet, but regardless of its reviews, I will probably enjoy it just by tailoring my attitude to what the filmmakers intended.
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Summary: alternate reality
Review: it seems like the reviewers of this movie feel like they are owed an enlightenment for their 6 dollars and 2 hours of their life. pander to me! entertain me! enlighten me! this and that and this was wrong! too little talking! too much talking! a shame, i could do better! oh, how easy it is to complain. it is incredible how many people trash this movie! you know, there are over 2 billion people in the world that dont know what this movie is, and just want to have some food to eat. maybe next time you should take your 6 dollars and help save a child in a third world country who doesnt give a f_ck about how a multi million dollar special effects extravaganza that did not meet their expectations. perhaps this does not apply to you, but this is where it stands. we are a bunch of whiny spoiled brats.
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Summary: Oh... stop COMPLAINING SO DAM MUCH
Review: This film is waaaaay too talky than the original... some effects were cool, but whassup with the story?
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Summary: GIVE IT A REST!!!
Review: Complain, complain, complain. That is all I hear from people about how this second instalment of the matrix is not as good as the first one. I cannot help but feel that many people out there have not understood the movie and, perhaps, the whole idea behind this trilogy. If you are a computer programmer you should be able to connect with the overall concept of virtual reality and computer coding, and this movie really shows, mostly in a graphical and easier to grasp, a deep relation between the two. I personally think that this movie was just as good or actually better than the first one not because the SFX are improved, but because the plot and complexity of it is exploited in a more multilayered way and Trinity is just as HOT as ever. There are a few things that I just don't care for, for example; they all, mostly, wear sunglasses even in low light ambients and the overall dialogue is somewhat woody and filled with over the top words and sentencing that makes things sound more complicated than they should. Also, when Neo fights hundreds of agent Smiths in the courtyard, the switch from live actors to CGI characters is noticeable and makes it feel like you are watching a videogame rather than a movie. Other than that I really like this film and the message that it tries to convey. Overall: VERY GOOD.
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Summary: MORE THEN JUST A CHEAP THRILL
Review: I would recommend owning a copy of The Matrix Reloaded. While entertaining though fantastic fight scenes, it also remains intellectually stimulating for viewers who demand more from a film then just a cheap thrill. I found the themes throughout The Matrix Reloaded intriguing and far beyond that of any Hollywood films released recently. The film continues where the Matrix left off, the human race still battling against machines for control of the earth. Yet the film begins to change within genres as a prevailing question emerges; what is the nature of free will? Via dialogue other notions are also explored, such as the notion of control and even the notion of illusion. This is the best aspect of the film, while you can enjoy it on a purely visceral level via the relentless action scenes, you can at the same time chose to ponder the more complex themes the film addresses. Most threatening to the average viewer are intense scenes that rely solely on the use of metaphorical dialogue and do nothing to advance the plot line. If your simply looking for an action film, with dazzling action and absolutely no plot this DVD is not for you. However, if you enjoy epic plot lines with overriding themes of morality and freewill this film is truly worth having in your collection.
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Summary: Disappointing
Review: Okay, okay, it ISN'T the worst film ever, as some here have claimed; it's just that the first Matrix set the bar so very high as a smart, stylish, action-filled sci-fi knockout. And Reloaded doesn't come close to the first, because it breaks very little new ground. The visual look is identical to the first, with the exception of the Zion scenes. Plotwise there's not much new--Neo has a quest, but we're hardly clear on what he expects to find or why he should believe anything at all that he's told in the world of the Matrix, or why he even thinks he should believe anything he's told. He certainly knows that the world is a fiction--that's what makes him the One! There is an interesting twist at the end that I won't reveal--it's all that really makes the film worth watching for those of you interested in the storyline. The writers dropped the ball almost completely on Agent Smith and the Oracle--it seems to me that what actually happened to Smith, what he has now become, outside the program, is of real interest and much more compelling than seeing him split ad infinitum; and the true nature of the Oracle is hinted at but not really explored. Of course, some questions must remain unanswered for the final film, and I hope these are addressed. There's a very peculiar scene in a restaurant, and a bit with a keymaker, that disturb the continuity--I felt that the scenes were there to provide some weirdness, but make very little sense in the context of the Matrix itself. So that leaves the action. I should probably leave it to others to judge this, not being a connoiseur of fight scenes--I always get irritated that Hollywood seems to think that outrunning machine gun fire is so easy and often-accomplished (at least in the Matrix there's really a context for it!). But in general, I thought much of the action was simply tiring. Okay, Agent Smith multiplies, Neo fights him to a draw, Neo flies away. I get the point. But do I need to get it for so long, so often? There were admittedly some great moments, but some very long half-hours, as has been said of Richard Wagner's operas... I'll definitely see the end of the trilogy; but Reloaded has completely changed my expectations. What a shame of an anticlimax to what is undoubtedly a great sci-fi film.
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Summary: Back to earth for the Wachowskis
Review: The Matrix Relaoded was a major disappointment when compared with the original. I loved the Matrix and I have probably watched it about 30 times. This sequal isn't bad but it is just nowhere near the quality of the original. In spite of this, it was still an exciting movie experience. There are some incredible action sequences and the layered plot is still interesting but it does begins to wear a little thin. There is a rave scene in Zion that seems especially transparent and superficial. It does not fit with the rest of the film or anything from the original. If you really enjoyed the first movie this is a good purchase, otherwise it's just another action movie.
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Summary: A Wast of Time!
Review: This movie was one of the most boring movies I have ever seen!!! The whole movie is just clips of fight seens that drag on forever and the main characters having lots of sappy romance seens! In one of the last sceens the main character is told to choose beetween two doors: the first is to save the city, which would other wise be wiped out, killing EVERYONE, and the second save Trinity(I never found out if she was his wife or girlfriend). Which does he choose? He chooses Trinity, who, obvesly, is included in the EVERYONE, and so she will obvesly die to!!! Very smart!!! This is a waist of time!
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Summary: Excellent!!!!!
Review: I think this movie was extremely good. There is so much action in it and it was also very interesting. It is a lot better than the first one because it had better special effects and a better plot. The reason I give this movie five stars is because I like the Matrix movies, the special effects, and how it keeps you thinking what will happen next. Anyone who hasn't seen this movie should go buy it, not rent it. To sum this all up, this movie was truly phenomenal.
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