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Like most people in this country, I saw "The Matrix: Reloaded" on the
big screen in mid-May. The following are my thoughts on it, as
originally posted on the Oblivion UO shard message boards.
Did I enjoy the movie? Yes
Was I impressed by the movie? No
Was it a good movie? Probably
Was it a great movie? No, not really
Part of my problem is that I watch a LOT of Hong Kong martial arts
movies starring very talented people. Compared to this, the fight
scenes in the Matrix are CRAP. Ok, I loved the fight scene with all
the weapons. It had a lot of flaws in it (all the weapons on the wall
and he chose A PAIR OF SAIS???), but it was cool. I love
weapons. The army of Agent Smiths was an amusing scene, but
the fighting was ridiculously bad. Not only were all of the CG
people being thrown around disappointing, but come on... You'd
think Neo could have downloaded some better staff fighting and
fighting-against-a-mob skills than that.
And the dance scene . . . good grief. At first, I was waiting for it to
end . . . then, as it stretched on, I mentally grumbled about this being
filler to stretch the movie. After another minute or two, after seeing
too many close-ups of Neo and Trinity kissing (yeah, did they really
need to show us what they were doing? who here isn't imaginative
enough to guess?), I began to feel that the scene would never end.
The rest of this movie was going to be one orgiastic (am I allowed
to say that word?) dance scene, and all of the action would be in
Revolutions this November. Part of my problem is I'm really getting
fed up with movies feeling like to be "cool" they have to include
some sort of rave-esque dance scene, whether or not it has
ANYthing to do with the story. If I wanted to see a bunch of sexy
people dancing I'd watch music videos. On a side note from that,
Tem pointed out that everyone there was young and good looking...
I guess the old and ugly people find dancing like that to be sinful?
Honestly, to me, it's pretty weird to have some priestly person say a
prayer, and then 10 minutes later everyone's twisting around to
throbbing music . . .
Gee, that was a long rant. I had a lot of other little problems with
the movie, but for the most part, it was good, entertaining fun. Just
not cool and thought-provoking like the original.
Oh, and if you don't like heavy metal, don't bother waiting through
the credits for the teaser at the end. The credits must have listed
10-15 minutes, the teaser was short and unimpressive... And with
how soon the 3rd movie is coming out, it'll probably be attached to
the beginning of new movies and available at Quicktime any time
now.
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