The Matrix Reloaded: a desperate cash grab that is 90% filler and 10% plot.
So much of this movie is absolutely pointless and quite painful to watch:
Firstly, that speech by Morpheus, then the painful dancing and sex scene between trinity and Neo. That was way too drawn out and just unnecessary. We get it, they are dancing, and Neo and Trinity are making love, get on with it.
Second, the whole scene with Neo and the Counselor. They have a lengthy conversation seemingly about nothing. What relevance did that have to anything? We were introduced to so many characters in Zion only to have them mean absolutely nothing in the end.
Oh, and while we are on the topic of Zion... how did they manage to make such an advanced city underground? Did they have time to drag billions and billions of dollars worth of equipment down with them while the machines were on their tails, eager to kill them?
Third: all of the action. It didn't add anything to the plot. Neo spends 15 minutes fighting all of the Smiths when he could have just flown away immediately after he realized it was a swarm.
The fight between that random programmer in order to get to the oracle...
Neo's Jackie Chan-esque fight scene on those stairs.
The 20 minute chase scene with trinity, Morpheus, and the keymaker... don't even get me started on that.
And how about those ghostly dreadlock twins...
All of those scenes seemed to just fill the time as the real storyline: the looming destruction of humanity was sprinkled in.
3/10
So much of this movie is absolutely pointless and quite painful to watch:
Firstly, that speech by Morpheus, then the painful dancing and sex scene between trinity and Neo. That was way too drawn out and just unnecessary. We get it, they are dancing, and Neo and Trinity are making love, get on with it.
Second, the whole scene with Neo and the Counselor. They have a lengthy conversation seemingly about nothing. What relevance did that have to anything? We were introduced to so many characters in Zion only to have them mean absolutely nothing in the end.
Oh, and while we are on the topic of Zion... how did they manage to make such an advanced city underground? Did they have time to drag billions and billions of dollars worth of equipment down with them while the machines were on their tails, eager to kill them?
Third: all of the action. It didn't add anything to the plot. Neo spends 15 minutes fighting all of the Smiths when he could have just flown away immediately after he realized it was a swarm.
The fight between that random programmer in order to get to the oracle...
Neo's Jackie Chan-esque fight scene on those stairs.
The 20 minute chase scene with trinity, Morpheus, and the keymaker... don't even get me started on that.
And how about those ghostly dreadlock twins...
All of those scenes seemed to just fill the time as the real storyline: the looming destruction of humanity was sprinkled in.
3/10