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You know the best thing about the Matrix Reloaded was the Trailer for Terminator 3, I really should have just left after that.
That ass was great.
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Anyway the problem with reloaded was more that it felt like they’d filmed a load of action set pieces and just cobbled them together, rather than construct a coherent film.
Agreed, sir. Having read everyone's comments here, I was expecting a really sucky film. It was pretty OK, I thought.
While not as good as the first film, the philospophical moments such as the park bench scene and the Councillor and Neo's conversation about the interdependance between man and machine made up for the over use of effects and very standard chop-sockey and "bullet-time" the rest of the film took up.
Trinity on the bike was great but Neo's fight with the 50 odd agents was some quite poor, *poor* chop-sockey.
One profound message I think I got from the film was that in reality, Good and Evil do not exist, only sepearate selfish entities, typified by Agent Smith's desire to exist and spread like a cancer. And if Choice is an illusion as well, it's one that even a machine is incapable of knowing. Which is nice.
That aside there was overuse of effects and little danger in the combat scenes. We'd seen that kung-fu before but what would have ruled is if Neo had been able to break an agent's arm badly, somethig visceral and tangible the audience could relate to. Reckon the censor wouldn't have had that though, sadly.
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Sadly I fear the matrix has become a victim of its own success, and that someone at Warner decided that the action sequences should take precedence over the plot.
Mmm...don't know the reasons for it but the outcome seems the same - nice idea hijacked by francise fiends.
Characters were added, and never expanded upon, The sex scene was woeful and unnecessary, even that French guy seemed to be added only to allow another chance for neo to kick ass,
Link seemed added to be "Token Black Guy Who Dies" - I wa surprised he survived. I'll be intersted to see what happens to him in Revolutions.
The French character was there simply to make fun of the French, who are fast replacing the English as "Accented Evil Character". We'll see what he really does in Revolutions. The combat scene with his cronies was, in places, poor.
The sex scene was hot, if a bit needlessly cut with that rave in Zion, but it felt wrong: if I wanted to see Carrie Ann Moss's legs and ass on a big screen I'd look it up on the 'Net, and not in a public cinema.
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And then the wachowskis had an afterthought "Shit, we've forgotten to include all that social commentary we've been trying to subtlety inject about the human condition" and so in the end we get the architect babbling on about systems and control, and what have you. I could go on, but cant really be arsed, Basically it was crap, not because it didn’t look good, hell they spent enough money, but because they didn’t balance the big-budget action with the plot, and ended up with a confusing mess. Lets just hope that this is their "Back to the Future 2", and that they can come to their senses for the third instalment.
Any attempt to tie in an action film with any serious philosophical debate is like trying to crack a nut with a sledgehammer. Subtlety is lost. This film is a bit like economy beef paste spread - poor filler.
Everyone in the media here say the original Matrix was some kind of philosophical commentray ! Bollocks! It was about hackers and kung fu and slo-mo shots! This one has way more philosophy but it's lost in a sea of very VERY bog standard action sequences. Although Trinity on the bike was niiice.
Overall I liked it and that's what counts. I hope you all liked bits of it, whichever bits they were and even if it was only eating the popcorn
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