Matrix Unloaded
Well, seems like Arun has a thing or two to say about Matrix Reloaded. And though not as irked, I was disappointed too. I decided to make my views about the movie public now that the euphoria is dead, and well, now that I have some time and inclination to rant. Here goes:
There was no power behind the action sequences, no consequence. Every fight was just going through the motions. One of the great things about the first movie was that during a fight, the opponents surprised one another, there was a sense of urgency about the conflicts. In this movie, the fights are pointless, long and boring. They go no where and serve no purpose. They don’t move the story forward or have anything hanging on their outcome.
The CGI sequences were not that cool. In the first movie, the W. Bros used practical but innovative filming techniques to show us something we had never seen before. Why abandon that? The fight with the 300 agents looked like a bad Xbox game.
Zion looked like a bad 70′s movie. It was worse than Planet of the Apes. The 30 minute rave and love scene was overbearing and gratuitous. The council chambers looked like a bad Star Trek episode.
I was ultimately disappointed because the second movie did not pick up where the first movie left off. Instead, RELOADED abandoned the first movie for a new direction. At the end of the first movie, Neo is confident, he’s the savior, he’s the one. He’s going to show the world that they are not bound by what they conceive to be reality. He’s not going to unhook everyone, because that would be impossible, but he’s going to wake them up inside the Matrix. He’s not here to end things, but start a new beginning and possibly, a new coexistence.
At the beginning of RELOADED, Neo is back to being unsure. He can fly now and he’s a better fighter than most of the other rebels, but he has no purpose, he has no plan. In fact, he mentions on several occasions that he wishes he knew what he should do. They never explain what happened to shatter his confidence.
This may make you think that the movie sucked. Well, yes it did in parts, but it was not all bad. There were cool parts too. But I was disappointed, and the Wachowskis owe me 75 bucks.