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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kai Lord" data-source="post: 903872" data-attributes="member: 3570">On to my review of The Matrix Reloaded.One of the best car chases in the history of film and two great twists:  the fact that the Architect orchestrated the cyclical rising of the One and Neo having powers in the real world.However, everything up to the point where they grab the keymaker is mostly mediocre with several scenes that are just plain bad.The worst is the abhorrently ridiculous sequence with the woman and the cake.  The Merovingian[sp] is into Cause and Effect.  WE GET IT.  Why on earth do we need a nearly ten minute dissertation of such an elementary concept culminating with the outrageously stupid "programmed orgasm" sequence?  And the sheer effort that went into making the stoic Morpheus, Trinity, and Neo look so "kewl" as they just sat there in their raybans was pure comedy.And the kung fu fights felt like musical numbers out of a Disney cartoon.  Story, story, story, *cue the music and fight for no reason*, story, story.  In the first film, Neo walks up to the Oracle's door and a black woman opens it, recognizing Neo before he was even Neo.  But the second time he visits the Oracle they have to crank up the techno music and have a boring parry fest before they recognize its him?The rave?  Pure exploitative filler.The philosophical meanderings about man and machine in Zion?  Pointless, redundant, and boring.  Morpheus already covered the irony of machines feeding off humans after humans relied on machines in the first film, in a much more concise and artistic manner.The "Burly Brawl" was cool the first time, but upon watching it again the digital Neo's are waaay too obvious.  Played like Soul Calibur on steroids, something I made fun of Blade 2 for.  And how come not once do we see Neo do those funky things with his fists that he did in the first film, that he was even able to do against Morpheus when he was training...?And perhaps worst of all, I realized that in Matrix Reloaded, I just plain don't like Neo as a character, mostly due to the scene where Persephone demands a kiss.  The woman he loves has to watch, and he says nothing to console her before or after?  The woman whose love was the very reason he was alive?  Neo's a jerk in the second film, and a clingy over-sexed jerk to boot.Some fantastic action (I loved the "ghost brothers") but this one just doesn't measure up.</blockquote>

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