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Description: Genre: Action & Adventure / Theatrical Release: 2003 / Director: Larry Wachowski, Andy Wachowski / Actors: Ray Anthony ... more
The Matrix Reloaded (DVD) ... (III), Christine Anu ... / DVD released 10 October, 2003 at Warner Home Video / Features of the DVD: Box set, PAL, Special Edition, Widescreen / The Matrix Reloaded delivers added amounts of everything that the first film had, with the exception of surprises. We see more of the "real world" in the "last human city" of Zion and we go back to the 1999-look urban virtual reality of the Matrix for more encounters with artificially-intelligent baddies and--the real reason you've turned up--a lot more martial arts superheroics. The downside is that this is just part one of a two-pack of sequels, with Revolutions required to tie up the story and sort out a great deal of plot confusion. There are other problems: none of the stars have much good material to work with outside the fights and stunts, which makes the film sorely miss the mix of science fiction thrills and character interplay of the original instalment. However, the Wachowski Brothers still deliver more than enough stand-alone instant classic action sequences to make you ignore their duff script: in particular, Reeves and Hugo Weaving square off in a rumble that gets dicey, as more and more identical Weavings come out of the woodwork to pile on the lone hero; and a full quarter of an hour is devoted to a chase through the Matrix that lets Laurence Fishburne shoulder the heroic business. A last-reel encounter with a virtual God, the architect of the Matrix, finally delivers some major plot advances, but the scene is so brilliantly shot and designed--with Reeves framed against a wall of TV screens that show multiple versions of himself--that it's easy to be distracted by the decor and miss the point of what's being said. --Kim Newman On the DVD: The Matrix Reloaded two-disc set amazingly has very little in-depth stuff on this physically impressive movie; there's not even a commentary track. Perhaps the Wachowski Brothers want to keep their enigmatic aura, or perhaps there's a better DVD coming after the trilogy ends? Best here is the 30-minute feature on the incredible freeway chase: here you get the inside scoop on how the titanic 12-minute sequence was put together. There's plenty of material on the second disc, but it's just filler, with the actors talking about how great it is to work again with the Matrix team and plenty of quick edits of explosions and other "cool" things. There's a segment on product placement, 30 minutes on how the video game was created and the MTV Movie Awards parody. The features feel more like pre-movie hype than post-film deconstruction. Dolby 5.1 sound is suitably spectacular--but there's no DTS option--and the super-wide 2.40:1 picture is, of course, pin-sharp, bringing out all the lavish detail and highlighting the contrast between the green-hued Matrix and the grimy grey real world. --Doug Thomas

Newest Review: ... you didn't get the first film you may as well not bother with this sequel or the next one. Because the first film was quite ... more

 ... amazing the film makers had to ramp things up with this one and that's probably where they went to far. They needed to increase the amazement of the visuals but the story kind of gets lost amongst this and it just seems like constantly going from one fight to another. The scene with Neo fighting loads of Agent Smith clones may be a good idea but it looked too computer generated and crazy. Reeves gets more wooden in his acting and his love with Moss' character hardly seems genuine at all. Fishburne is still as solid a...more

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Crowned Review The Matrix Reloaded (DVD): The Matrix Retarded (1062 words)
by - written on 12/02/05 (Very useful, 278 readings)
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The Matrix Reloaded had a strange effect on me. When I first saw it, I left the cinema ranting about how indescribably fantastic it all was. Sure, I was fully conscious that the plot was a load of tosh, but what spectacular tosh it all was. Several weeks later, the memories matured in my mind and my affection for the film soured distinctly. Luckily I wrote this film before I began to loathe the film completely. As we all know, the central conceit of the Matrix series is that humanity is really living in a computer-generated world while our bodies are used as Duracells by solar-powered machines. We can be possessed by balding men with big guns and hands-free ...  Read the complete review

Dardalius
Crowned Review The Matrix Recycled (1830 words)
by - written on 28/07/03 (Very useful, 117 readings)
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Smith, "Mr Anderson, the stink of humans is all around; this building is positively overflowing with the odour of your kind, what possibly could attract so many to one place" Neo, "Huh, it's a cinema; which ever one of you said that" Morpheus "Do you 'think' that smell you refer to is 'real', do you 'believe' that talking in 'riddles' adds to the plot?, does wearing 'black coats' and 'shades' really make us more 'cool' and in the slightest bit clichéd'. Neo,"What? what does clichéd mean" Trinity, "Come let's make cold, awkward, passionless love ...  Read the complete review

ickkate
Crowned Review The Matrix Reloaded (DVD): Style Over Substance (1414 words)
by - written on 04/06/03 (Very useful, 128 readings)
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In 1999 'The Matrix' blew our screens away with a piece of science-fiction entertainment that was slick and stylish - with a definite emphasis on the style - but most importantly this was an action film that made you think. It was a film that stood out as something new and different, and in my opinion would have been much better if the Wachowski brothers had left it that way. The trick with 'The Matrix' was just that - and it's a trick that really only works once. Once you know what 'The Matrix' is, and that Neo is the One who has the capacity to destroy it, what other possible surprises are there? 'The Matrix' truly shocked with ...  Read the complete review

heekeer
Premium Review The Matrix Has You! (360 words)
by - written on 21/08/09 (Very useful, 5 readings)
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The Matrix Reloaded is the second film in the Matrix trilogy made by Warner Brothers. This movie sees the return of Neo and his crew Morpheus, Trinity. Neo gets a vision in this movie where Trinity is fighting an agent and is killed. During the course of the movie Neo journeys to Zion the city he is destined to save from the thousands of sentinels that are gradually drilling their way down to attack the humans. The Oracle returns too in this movie and tells Neo he must find the Keymaker to make everything clear and is as cryptic and silly as usual. There is much more of a relationship between Neo and Trinity in this movie and they become lovers. ...  Read the complete review

SmilingBuddha
Premium Review The Matrix Reloaded (DVD): The Matrix Reloaded: Dissapointing (324 words)
by - written on 27/06/09 (Very useful, 8 readings)
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As a big fan of the original I was greatly looking forward to this, however I found it didn't live up to the hype. My main issue was the story, I could practically hear the plot straining to be deep and profound but this falls flat on its face. The plot, which is entangled in vague philosophy ("Not how, but why"), is unnecessarily confusing and I eventually found myself wondering, does this plot make sense or is it simply that I just don't care? I actually cringed at the final two door "choice" (despite being very predictable). I am fairly confident that their line of thought whilst developing that scene was "The pill thing ...  Read the complete review

 
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