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Summary: I would rather...
Review: ... have my eyes explode in a horrifying halo of blood than subject them to the utter travesty that is "Matrix: Reloaded".
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Summary: So boring and long.............
Review: Geez, I hate it when writers and directors get carried away with themselves. That is definitely the case with this sequel. I liked the first Matrix. However, this one could have easily been condensed down to an hour and a half at the longest. There was so much useless footage that it was ridiculous. One example, is the sex scene between Neo and Trinity. I have yet to hear anyone say that they liked the scene or thought the scene was good/necessary. I thought it was filler for making the movie longer and I so did NOT need to see that disgusting scene. I am usually not a squeamish person but that scene just about made me barf. What was the point of that scene? What did it accomplish? Nothing except to show that Neo and Trinity are not appealing to the eyes. Other scenes I could have done without completely or with shortened versions were the "rave" (for lack of better term), Morpheous stating over and over that he believes this and that he believes that (we knew that within the first 3 minutes of the movie for crying out loud), and the scene where Neo fights the multiplying Agent Smith. There are more but those are the ones that stick out most vividly in my mind as serving no other purpose but to elongate the movie needlessly.I seriously recommend that you only rent this movie if you have to see it. Your money is better spent on other movies.
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Summary: Reload Is Tooo Long
Review: I saw this movie the weekend it came out. When the film started, I was excited and blissful to be in the theater watching it the second night it was out. When the film ended, I was ready to leave. The plot is hard to follow but nevertheless if you understand it you will agree that it is a good plot. The machines are drilling into the underground city of Zion, and Neo finally gets a chance to destroy the machines and save mankind. Not so simple though. Neo must choose to save Trinity or to enter the machine mainframe and end the war for good. Guess which he chooses.
The fight scenes are toooooo long. The Burley Brawl and Freeway Chase were impressive but should have been cut shorter. The 2 albino twins and Morpheus were awesome.
The whole logical mind talks were sooo stupid and could confuse the brightest philosopher. The talks with the Oracle and the Architect were senseless.
And the conclusion......it all happens so fast. Neo can control the machines outside of the Matrix but goes into a coma by doing so.......and another unknown character is konked out with him after it is revealed that the new character is the only survivor when the machines break into a pipeline leading into Zion. Who is this new character? I could not figure it out it happened so fast. I think it may have been the human Agent Smith, I know he is in Revolutions as a human.
A preview.....Revolutions includes Neo conversing with the machines over the unstoppable uncontrolable Agent Smith, the machines braking into Zion, and Neo duking it out for the last time against Agent Smith.
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Summary: Fun to look at annoying to listen to
Review: First off, I will probably buy this dvd just to watch the car chase in slow motion. I like special effects for special effects sake, and these are as good as they come. The Smiths v. Neo wasn't as impressive, but is still good to study if you are into these things. On the other hand, the supposed depth of the movie's plot doesn't hold up under scrutiny. It seems as though the writers have read a bunch of cliff notes and decided to impress the public at large with their intelligence. But they end up taking shortcuts, using buzzwords and solemn tones instead actual reason and insight. To take it back to the Allegory of the Cave, people are confusing this series for a great, insightful epic, when it is really just a shadow of such a thing. If you want deep sci-fi, stick to 2001. Whatever, though, it is entertaining, if annoyingly self-impressed. I would give it 3 stars except I felt the need to counteract the overexuberance of some of the others. One question though- if humans can run a giant, underground city on presumably geo-thermic electricity, why can't the robots just do the same instead of sapping people for electricity? It would simplify things greatly for the robots.
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Summary: Cutting Edge
Review: I am a Matrix fan, otherwise I would not take the time to write down my comments. I can see why many would not like this sequel, compared to the first, it wasn't as good. It was different. It would be interesting to know whether the producers of this movie planned all three movies when they released the Matrix or if they planned the 2nd and 3rd installments after the great success of the first. Eitherway, this is a great movie. The plot, action, background music, and special effects combine to produce a great visual display. The only problem I had was in a few of the scenes the special effects (I thought) looked move like a video game rather than actual live action. In regards to the plot, you either get it or you don't. If you do, there are several different levels on which the plot exists; from the obivious to the sublime. I am not about to compare the Matrix to some eastern mythology or some poet, but I am sure some correlation could be made. However, if you take the time to notice the little things in both this and the first movie, you can start to understand. I have watched both movies several times and still come away with something new. Eitherway, this is a great movie. However, I think the success will depend on the final movie where (hopefully) everything is wrapped up.
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Summary: When Directors Get Too Successful
Review: Power in the Hollywood system comes from box office numbers. The more money your work earns for the studio owners, the more creative control you're allowed. Not everyone uses their newfound power wisely, however. "The Matrix Reloaded" demonstrates this. Some directors know how to leverage creative freedom. Ridley Scott, for example, is a director who always maintains careful control on his creative work from start to finish (though, thankfully, not to the degree of a Kubrick). As a result, the content of his films is always perfectly paced. You may not like the content, but that won't be because it's expressed badly. Unfortunately it looks like the Wachowski brothers are an example of the other type of director, for whom newly-gained power becomes a club with which to beat down any attempt to restrain the story they want to tell. The story of the Matrix is epic; like the Machine, it wants to transcend all limits to its growth. In making "The Matrix" this impulse was restrained, both financially and artistically, and the cinematic result was a perfect blend of story and presentation. In "The Matrix Reloaded" these constraints were lifted. Without that discipline, the audiovisual side began growing like celluloid kudzu, and wound up choking off the story. To put it simply, every scene in this movie is about 20 percent too long. From Neo's mid-movie fight with Smith 2.0, to the conversation with the Oracle, to the top-of-the-truck fight, to the Neo/Trinity love scene, to the staircase fight, to the Big Dance Number -- all of these scenes, and many others, were just too long. All these scenes should have been edited down to the exact amount necessary to tell the story, but they weren't. Halfway through them, we got the point, but the directors wouldn't let us move on. They lingered... and we got bored. The result was a reasonably good movie that was less fun to watch than it should have been because it dragged. I can't help but assume that, now that the directors have the power to push exactly the vision they want, they're unwilling to accept any limits to translating what they see in their imaginations onto the big screen. Thus, scenes that any good film editor would have left on the cutting-room floor -- not because they were "bad," but because they didn't add anything useful to the scene -- were retained because the directors couldn't bear to cut them and no one from the studio said "no." This problem of "falling in love with your work" (and thus becoming unwilling to revise or cut scenes that don't help tell the story) has always been a struggle for writers. In "The Matrix Reloaded" the Wachowski brothers appear to have fought that same battle and lost. Good story, great audio/visuals, bad pacing: 3 stars.
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Summary: Eye lifting action!
Review: I thought this was a great movie and a lot of fun.
The "interstate" chase alone was worth the price of admission.
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Summary: The truth is, its not that bad
Review: The matrix reloaded, considered by many was no comparison to its first, The Matrix. Honestly i do not see why people rip this movie as bad as they do. The further story of zion and the matrix is much more complex, as it should be. The first Matrix was a good, slim, to the point, movie and it could be. Reloaded requires much more explaining and therefore there is much more fillers and and a larger scale plot. This is the reason why i only gave 4-stars, because of plot execution. There are some scenes that should not have have been in the movie and only add minutes, but nothing neccessary to the story. As an example, the rave scene was useless, and could have dropped a good 10 minutes from the movie. Also the plot conflicts somewhat with that if the first matrix. At the end of The Matrix, Neo is held at the status of a God, but in Reloaded he has weaknesses. I suppose this is because of the complexity of the plot. As for the action...no other movie hails in comparison to Reloaded, Its action and graphics were state of the art and very powerful. No where else have i have a more realistic flying scene than this movie. Personally the flying scenes alone made the movie for me. There is also still the good one-on-one fights with humans, agents, machines, etc. and the classic "bullet-time," motion. Altogether the movie is lengthy, but its fun and it works. It retains complexity of its matrix centerpiece but still has action that anyone can have a good time watching...Cant wait until Revolutions
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Summary: Why the bad reviews?
Review: I thought 'The Matrix Reloaded' was a fantsastic film.
The plot, though initially confusing and seemingly uneventful, is amazing in it's own right. As with most trilogies, it slows down a bit, to develop character. The enire 'rave' scene in the beginning was designed to show us how the inhabitants of Zion long for more simpler times, free of the complexity of the war. I have seen some complaints about the costumes on the 'ravers'. Why the dirty clothing, no shoes, the down-right-prehistoic gear? Once again, it is a rebellion against the complexity of the war; what is it to be truly human, not just a product of machines and the electronic reality they live in.
The fight sequences are far from boring; play this next to any other action film (save LOTR, of course) and these blow the other movies away. Incredibly rich, very rewarding. You can see how much effort they placed into these scenes. Kudos to the choreographer(s). Great job.
If I do have one complaint, it's the sequencing of the movie. Too much drama and story early on; way too much action later. But upon further examinaton- how else could they do it? They had to show Zion first; the love sequences; the humanity behind the Matrix. All of this leads up to the mind-boggling scene with the Architect.
That was one breath-taking scene.
That one scene changed the entire story of the Matrix- everything we thought was real turned out to be fiction in the original 1999 Matrix. Now, everything we thought was free turns out to be slavery once again.
Fantastic. These films will go down in history; not just for the technical aspects, but the sheer philosophical complexity.
Great stuff.
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Summary: Can Movies Get Any better Than This?
Review: People, People.
This movie obviously was by far the greatest movie ever made. The fight scenes- 5 stars- The Plot- 5 stars no doubt- And every other part was 5 stars! Yes, i am one of those many Matrix fans out there. And you're probbably thinking.. " Why do I care what this person says?" Well, because i'm reccomending one of the Best movies ever amde. Trust me. Just rent it. 100% Satisfaction.
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