The Wachowskis get to do whatever they want with The Matrix Reloaded so they do this bombastic, pseudo-intellectual sequel and they're totally bored with it. It's very obviously not what they want to be doing with their time.
They got about as much mileage out of the Matrix as they could in the first one and putting a dream sequence into the second one doesn't do them any favors.
This film has Harold Perrineau giving a bad performance. I didn't even know it was possible for him to give a bad performance. He's just terrible--he's this useless, throwaway character.
Speaking of bad performances--Jada Pinkett Smith. I've seen her in something else and I was waiting for she to give one of the worst performances in film history and she certainly delivers.
The fight scenes are the boring and cartoonish. They're not exciting. They look like a video game.
The film almost turns around at the end when it mocks the audience--the entire movie is invalidated in the last act, in a self-congratulatory way--not a fun way, but a wink wink. If the viewer is paying attention, he or she just realized the movie was a waste of time and money. But the cliffhanger ruins it. It's cheap instead of cruel. Cruel is interesting. Cheap is predictable.
At least George Lucas is making a fortune off the toys. He cares about something. The Wachowskis don't have a motive, artistic or commercial, for making this mess.
CREDITS
Written and directed by Andy and Larry Wachowski; director of photography, Bill Pope; edited by Zach Staenberg; music by Don Davis; production designer, Owen Paterson; produced by Joel Silver; released by Warner Bros.
Starring Keanu Reeves (Neo), Laurence Fishburne (Morpheus), Carrie-Anne Moss (Trinity), Hugo Weaving (Agent Smith), Jada Pinkett Smith (Niobe), Gloria Foster (the Oracle), Monica Bellucci (Persephone), Nona Gay (Zee), Randall Duk Kim (Keymaker), Harry Lennix (Commander Lock), Harold Perrineau (Link), Adrian Rayment (Twin No. 2) and Neil Rayment (Twin No. 1).
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