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Message: <blockquote data-quote="John Crichton" data-source="post: 893978" data-attributes="member: 4779">I am torn.I liked the movie overall.  But I think I need to see it again before I make any statements that could get me flamed (in a peaceful, ENWorld-esque way) straight out of here.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />I will say that I enjoyed more of the dialogue scenes than I did of the action scenes.  The action scenes, while impressive, lacked something compared to the action of the first film.  I loved the scenes with The Oracle, The Architect, Persephone and Merovingian.  The twins were cool (and as an aside, I think they may have been the vampires rather than ghosts, but I can buy either).I saw both of the twists coming, as they were foreshadowed big-time (not a problem there):  the Smith-absorbed guy playing havoc @ Zion and the True History and Purpose of The One.  I have a sneaking suspicion that The Architect was there as a fail-safe for The One.  The machines know about The One and they know that he can't be controlled, only contained.  The direction of the movie seems to be that Neo can do even more than even Morpheus believed he initially could.I will see it again and may have to retract this but the action scenes seemed muted.  Maybe because I felt little to no fear that anything bad would happen to the main characters.  No sense of dread, no feeling of urgency.But all that aside, I did enjoy it.  And the fact remains that I need to see it again to answer some questions for myself.  That is, I guess, a compliment.  Maybe I'll know after the second viewing...</blockquote>

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