Pointless action, bad dialogue, crap acting, lame philosophy and everyone looks like a vampire larper in the matrix.
I hated it in theater and can't stand it now. Some movies need a second chance. This doesn't.
Some of the action is nice, but I agree.
shareI hate the idea that The Matrix got sequels........ it was heckin OVER MAN.
They found the one.. i didn't need to see a Zion rave (?!)
The rave was an odd sequence. If humanity is just people living underground and getting hot to drum beats and techno, count me out. I like my lawn.
sharemy feeling exactly!
remember how in both The Terminator & Terminator 2 the "future" scenes depicting war were awesome?
it's cause they didnt show much except what was absolutely needed..
Funny, that was precisely why I liked it even more than the first. That whole scene with the Architect, at the film's very climax, was just brilliant - a rare case of subverted expectations done right.
It was like, "Yeah, okay, Mr. Hotshot McBadass, we're all oh-so-very impressed. Now, you think you can put on your big boy pants for five minutes, seeing as we have adult business to discuss here?" Like, "You think you're this big rebel, single-handedly bringing down the whole system? You don't think you were expected, predicted, accounted for? You seriously think you are anything more than just one more figure in the equation?"
The very systemic, cyclical, repeating nature of it all, like a broken machine, purposelessly running in an infinite loop, abandoned in a deserted waste long after its creators are all dead, left me with such a feeling of existential dread, I couldn't help but love this film.
Completely fucking agree. Was never so disappointed. The first one is gold. I remember at the time this came out I thought I was going mad because I was so disappointed and everyone was jizzing over it.
But hey I'm sure everyone involved in the sequels made a shit tonne of money which was the main reason for making them.
Everyone thought the Wachowskis were geniuses after the first film. Then they came out with this, Cloud Atlas and Jupiter Rising.
They used up all their ideas in the first film so had nothing left. But they threw a load of shit at the screen for the sequels and cashed in.
They have a few fun concepts, but they're not good at flushing a concise story out.
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