This was also posted on the forums on www.wasabianime.com.
Okay… I saw it.
Entertained… but disappointed.
WARNING! THIS CONTAINS A COUPLE OF MINOR SPOILERS! DON’T READ UNTIL YOU’VE SEEN IT!
DISAPPOINTMENT #1: In the first Matrix, when we saw the Matrix’s reality, you were given the feeling of the “real world.” Neo’s apartment. The club. The street at night. In this one, they lost suspension of disbelief for that concept because (it would seem) that the new Matrix reality cosists of uber-cool restaurants, castles in the middle of nowhere, a super highway, and numerous abandoned warehouses.
DISAPPOINTMENT #2: I hit on this one my Wasabi Anime forum review, too… more guns. Less Kung Fu. It’s fun to see some good ol’ fashioned ass kicking, but showing nothing BUT constant 3-D fighting with special effects in slow motion is becoming a bit passe.
DISAPPOINTMENT #3: The sad sad urge to stoop to silly comic effects. Who the hell came up with the obvious and lame idea to put in a bowling pin sound effect during the attack of the Smiths? Bad call. Very bad.
END SPOILER FILLED STUFF
So was The Matrix Reloaded a good movie? Sure. Was it as good as it could have been? Hell no. This is no Empire Strikes Back boy and girls.
May 15, 2003 @ 9:31 AM
told ya
May 15, 2003 @ 11:41 AM
I didn’t read the spoilers. But dammit. I’m suppose to go see it tonight and everyone who has seen it so far has said it isn’t that great.
May 15, 2003 @ 12:41 PM
Here’s one of my main gripes. WHAT IN THE HELL HAPPENED TO NEO’S POWERS?! I mean at the end of the first one, he could re-write matrix code, jump into an agent and destroy them, along with several other things. Where did these powers go? Why did they have to dumb neo down and make it so he almost never used these powers?
May 15, 2003 @ 3:03 PM
Damn… hadn’t thought of that one. Better make that “disappointment #4”
May 15, 2003 @ 10:09 PM
In addition to this stuff…read my comments in the thread over at the Wasabi Forums.
I’m gonna play devil’s advocate, apparently.
He can stil rip apart code…he just never got the oppurtunity (plus..it wouldn’t make for a very entertaining movie). And he can’t do it to Smith anymore, for obvious reasons.
It is a very good movie. Don’t let the dullards steer you wrong.
Judge for yourself.