This film is better than I remembered - too much chop-socky stuff but overall not the disappointment I thought at the time.
But it's annoying it ends with To Be Continued because now I have to put the last film in and it's late and I wish I'd started earlier in the evening - ah well, so it goes.
I just got through watching it after watching the first one a few days ago. It's honestly only the first time I watched The Matrix, but the second time I've seen Reloaded. (I saw it when I was younger and when I didn't care about continuity.)
Anyway, it was entertaining enough, but far inferior to the original. It just seemed kind of pretentious and focused too much on Neo and Trinity's romance. Not only that, but the CGI rendered parts of the fight scenes completely took me out of the action. I don't think it would've been so bad if they kept those parts short and didn't do slow motion during them.
Because the Matrix itself is literally computer generated graphics, I didn't mind that at all. The Matrix has hardware limitations, just like a real life computer and computer network. When Smith goes all out on Neo and yells "more" and we see Neo spin around fighting several dozen Smiths, he looks totally computer generated--and that is because the Matrix is doing its best to render so many actions in the same place simultaneously.
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