I actually liked the third one better. It got super-weird with the stuff where Neo and Trinity are in the real world, I loved the Club Hel sequence, the train station stuff was neat, and as meatheaded as it was, the exos vs. robo-squids was kinda just dumb enough to be a little awesome.
Reloaded had a bunch of really cool fights, and there was some strange fun to the exposition/philosophy dumps in-between fights, but I felt like the story didn't move as much. It was almost like a stasis tank between 1 and 3.
Of course, at the end of the day, the first film is a masterpiece and the second two are strange action movies with delusions of grandeur. But if I'm picking between 2 and 3, I give an edge to 3.
If we're expanding to the Matrix franchise, though, I'd go with the Animatrix, or maybe the comic collection - particularly Neil Gaiman's "Goliath".
I pretty much agree. Part 2 has a few good action scenes, but the story was all over the place. It felt like they threw in the Keymaker stuff just to add an action scene.
Part 3 at least focussed on the action.
I did kinda dig how frikkin' weird it got, too. They seemed to have pulled out all the stops.
shareI think I like Reloaded the most, they did a great job with the freeway scene and the Mega City backdrop, and at the very least it definitely has the best music of the 3 current films. Great scene with Neo and the Oracle, Neo and the Architect, as well.
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