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Neo and the rebel leaders estimate that they have 72 hours until 250,000 probes discover Zion and destroy it and its inhabitants. During this, Neo must decide how he can save Trinity from a dark fate ...( read more 
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MCT:October 15, 2008
Pretty gd, bit boring tho. The part on the freeway is the best. First was better, want to see third now cos its a cliffhanger.
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MCT:October 8, 2008
Not as bad ad many people claim, this movie's big problem is that it can't improve it's previous part. Still, it's an amazing spectacle only clouded by it's ridiculous plot, so unbelievable that I don't even think the writers knew what they were doing.
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MCT:October 6, 2008Exteremly intresting, of course none of the movies in the Matrix trilogy are quite as good as the first an original Matrix movie but this was a very good sequel and added some very good aspects to the Matrix and some not so good aspects to the Matrix. The Twins were awsesome very intresting characters I like them a lot, the Keymaker was cool with all the billions of keys he had hanging off his belt, I was glad that I finally got to see what Zion actually looked liked, the Architech was a pretty cool dude with all the freaky TV's and I thought that the program that protected the Oracle was pretty cool with his kung-fu and John Lennon glasses. I did not like the "love" scene with Trinity and Neo that was just freaky with all the plugs on Neo's spine and when all those Mr. Smith's jumped on top if Neo that was... ackward. I got my sword action but no Milla Jovovich oh-well it is worth seeing.
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MCT:September 29, 2008
Still not as good as the first one, but definitely better than the second. And it had the only ending that really fit.
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MCT:September 23, 2008This felt a little too self-involved and disjointed, but it still has some excellent individual scenes.
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MCT:September 23, 2008Out of this world!!!! I admit I was one of the millions who thought it was impossible for any matrix sequel to outdo the first but this was one of the few times I was happy I was dead wrong. More action, more fighting, fast cars and motor cycles, more guns and highway fight scene that makes car dealers cry and insurance company owners faint and for goodness sakes Neo flies so fast he melts the paint off walls and destroys an entire floor of a building by flying through it. This movie just gives you more. More than you had expected, more than you could have dreamed of. One of the best action movies of all time hands down.
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MCT:September 19, 2008
*smiles* Carrying things on perfectly from The Matrix was impossible; I gave both the sequels the full benefit of the doubt as they gave it their shot. :o)
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MCT:September 19, 2008
NOT AS GOOD AS THE FIRST. I THINK THAT EVERYTIME THE ADD ANOTHER MOVIE TO A SET THEY CAN NEVER AMOUNT TO THE FIRST. I THINK THAT THE FIRST MOVIE IS ALWAYS THE BEST IN A SET.
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MCT:September 17, 2008
Trinity: You always told me to stay off the freeway.
Morpheus: Yes, that's true.
Trinity: You said it was suicide.
Morpheus: Then let us hope that I was wrong.
I don't care what some people say, I like this movie a lot. Of course in a matter of originality this film wont out do the first, it's a sequel. Instead, it builds upon the first, and for some reason I enjoy watching this one even more.
The story is set a couple years after the first. Neo and Trinity are a couple, still living aboard Morpheus' ship. The main plot involves a threat against the rebel stronghold known as Zion. It will be destroyed by the machines in 72 hours, unless Neo can find a way to stop it. Problems increase when it turns out Agent Smith has found a way to become even more powerful and dangerous than before.
Morpheus: Smith?
Neo: Yes. He's found a way to copy himself.
Morpheus: Your saying there's more of him?
Neo: A lot more.
This movie does a great job at being a lot of fun and expanding upon ideas set up in the first film.
Zion was spoken of like it was a little cave near the core in the first film. Here, Zion is this expansive community with multi levels, security defenses, councils, and all kinds of stuff, including Mech warriors.
Trinity: Is Neo okay?
Link: Okay? Shit, Morpheus, you should have seen him.
Morpheus: Where is he now?
[Link checks a computer]
Link: He's doin' his Superman thing.
Keanu Reeves' Neo is more fun here, because now he is used like "the Muscle" of the group. He doesn't become the group leader just because he's The One, he is still part of Morpheus' crew, speaking of which, Morpheus is still cool just for walking the way he does.
[after first meeting with The Merovingian]
Neo: Well, that didn't go so well.
Morpheus: Are you Certain the Oracle didn't say anything else?
Neo: Yes.
Trinity: Maybe we did something wrong.
Neo: Or didn't do something.
Morpheus: No, what happened, happened and couldn't have happened any other way.
Neo: How do you know?
Morpheus: We are still alive.
And I love how over the top this movie goes. I love the 10-minute slo mo rave scene, which is given a "Warriors" style introduction by Morpheus. The freeway chase is amazing to watch. The Burly Brawl featuring a bunch of Agent Smiths vs. Neo is kick ass (despite the strange choice in CGI use), not to mention how good Hugo Weaving is as Smith. There are a lot of new characters added here as well, most of which are pretty cool. I love the ghost characters the best, of all the new characters on the list of things for the Matrix Club to beat up.
The soundtrack is once again great, combining orchestrated scenes with techno beats and ending with a Rage song again.
The Wachowski Brothers certainly tried to one-up everything setup in the first film, and while the response was mixed, I certainly appreciated what they have done.
For me, this one always moves along the quickest, despite it being the longest, and it's because I am having a good time watching it and it just seems well paced, for every scene involving some philosophical mumbo jumbo, there is an action scene or a neat effects scene to follow it. I'm not seeking deeper meanings, I want to have fun, and I do.
We even get a "dun dun duh...." - "to be concluded" scene complete with the appropriate music and everything to psyche us up for the third film...if only it matched these first two.
The Oracle: Candy?
Neo: Do you already know if I'm going to take it?
The Oracle: Wouldn't be much of an Oracle if I didn't.
Neo: Why are you here?
The Oracle: Same reason. I love candy. -
MCT:September 16, 2008
U jst have to believe what u see, don't question jst watch and believe. But bear in mind its fake but its good
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MCT:September 15, 2008
Lot of people hate this sequel, but I actually very much enjoyed the crazy plot and the amazing special effects.
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MCT:September 13, 2008I saw the first matrix movie... and i fell asleep... so it may happen to this one if I do get to see it...
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MCT:September 7, 2008
It's that middle thing again. Most people hate the sequels to the matrix. God knows why. What a car chase. OK maybe could have done without the cavernous orgy/rave scene.
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MCT:September 6, 2008
Doesn't have the whoa this is totally awsome factor of watching the original fo the first time, but ti still has sequences that top most of the ones in the dated first film. Just don't bother watching the third one not sure what they were trying to say with that film. If you loved the oringinal Matrix you will not be disapointed by this.
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MCT:September 2, 2008
one of my fav. movie action,dialougeand dress was great.The mst imp thing is tht hw neo is going to save the zian city and Trinity as he cn only save one of them.
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MCT:August 27, 2008
I actually have abit of time for the matrix sequels, they provide enough thrills to justify themselves but they are flawed and disappointing compared to the first.
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MCT:August 26, 2008
I loved the original Matrix so much that I couldn't wait till they wrote more of them. The FX were great but the story was a little disappointing. But hey, I'd see it again.
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MCT:August 25, 2008
this film will place you in a whole new demention of life good film for those techies who whish to be jaked in
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MCT:August 24, 2008
sick movie pt 2 man. i love these even though their kind of long.. there great to watch on a sunday when u have all day.. and watch them in order.. love monica bellucci she's gorgeous!
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MCT:August 24, 2008Its a lot like the first one, except this time around they take the general plot of the first movie and beat you over the head with it.
"The Matrix isn't the real world" we get, you bastards. Mr Fishburne tried way to hard to bring his character into this, and I found him more annoying than ever.
Of course, the action is utterly amazing. Its still more of the same though, and I think I'm the only human alive that wanted the action to be quicker, the slow motion stuff really makes it seem a lot less intense. But, whatever.
This movie is much too pretentious; it thinks its the greatest movie ever made, and it really is far from it. -
MCT:August 20, 2008
the action scenes were awesome just like in the first one, but this one was so much more complex than the first one and with tons of new characters that is hard to keep track; bottom line, the first one was better
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MCT:August 15, 2008
Commander Lock: "Not everyone believes what you believe." Morpheus: "My beliefs do not require that they do." Characters are always talking like this in "The Matrix Reloaded," which plays like a collaboration involving a geek, a comic book and the smartest kid in Philosophy 101. Morpheus in particular unreels extended speeches that remind me of Laurence Olivier's remarks when he won his honorary Oscar--the speech that had Jon Voight going "God!" on TV, but in print turned out to be quasi-Shakespearean doublespeak. The speeches provide not meaning, but the effect of meaning: It sure sounds like those guys are saying some profound things.
That will not prevent fanboys from analyzing the philosophy of "The Matrix Reloaded" in endless Web postings. Part of the fun is becoming an expert in the deep meaning of shallow pop mythology; there is something refreshingly ironic about becoming an authority on the transient extrusions of mass culture, and Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne) now joins Obi-Wan Kenobi as the Plato of our age.
I say this not in disapproval, but in amusement. "The Matrix" (1999), written and directed by the brothers Andy and Larry Wachowski, inspired so much inflamed pseudo-philosophy that it's all "The Matrix Reloaded" can do to stay ahead of its followers. It is an immensely skillful sci-fi adventure, combining the usual elements: heroes and villains, special effects and stunts, chases and explosions, romance and oratory. It develops its world with more detail than the first movie was able to afford, gives us our first glimpse of the underground human city of Zion, burrows closer to the heart of the secret of the Matrix, and promotes its hero, Neo, from confused draftee to a Christ figure in training.
As we learned in "The Matrix," the Machines need human bodies, millions and millions of them, for their ability to generate electricity. In an astonishing sequence, we saw countless bodies locked in pods around central cores that extended out of sight above and below. The Matrix is the virtual reality that provides the minds of these sleepers with the illusion that they are active and productive. Questions arise, such as, is there no more efficient way to generate power? And why give the humans dreams when they would generate just as much energy if comatose? And why create such a complex virtual world for each and every one of them, when they could all be given the same illusion and be none the wiser? Why is each dreamer himself or herself, occupying the same body in virtual reality as the one asleep in the pod? But never mind. We are grateful that 250,000 humans have escaped from the grid of the Matrix, and gathered to build Zion, which is "near the Earth's core--where there is more heat." As the movie opens, we are alarmed to learn that the Machines are drilling toward Zion so quickly that they will arrive in 36 hours. We may also wonder if Zion and its free citizens really exist, or if the humans only think so, but that leads to a logical loop ending in madness.
Neo (Keanu Reeves) has been required to fly, to master martial arts, and to learn that his faith and belief can make things happen. His fights all take place within virtual reality spaces, while he reclines in a chair and is linked to the cyberworld, but he can really be killed, because if the mind thinks it is dead, "the body is controlled by the mind." All of the fight sequences, therefore, are logically contests not between physical bodies, but between video game-players, and the Neo in the big fight scenes is actually his avatar.
The visionary Morpheus, inspired by the prophecies of the Oracle, instructed Neo--who gained the confidence to leap great distances, to fly and in "Reloaded" destroys dozens of clones of Agent Smith (Hugo Weaving) in martial combat. That fight scene is made with the wonders of digital effects and the choreography of the Hong Kong action director Yuen Wo Ping, who also did the fights in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon." It provides one of the three great set pieces in the movie.
The second comes when Morpheus returns to Zion and addresses the assembled multitude--an audience that looks like a mosh pit crossed with the underground slaves in "Metropolis." After his speech, the citizens dance in a percussion-driven frenzy, which is intercut with Neo and Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss) having sex. I think their real bodies are having the sex, although you can never be sure.
The third sensational sequence is a chase involving cars, motorcycles and trailer trucks, with gloriously choreographed moves including leaps into the air as a truck continues to move underneath. That this scene logically takes place in cyberspace does not diminish its thrilling 14-minute fun ride, although we might wonder--when deadly enemies meet in one of these virtual spaces, who programmed it? (I am sure I will get untold thousands of e-mails explaining it all to me.) I became aware, during the film, that a majority of the major characters were played by African Americans. Neo and Trinity are white, and so is Agent Smith, but consider Morpheus; his superior Commander Lock (Harry Lennix); the beautiful and deadly Niobe (Jada Pinkett Smith), who once loved Morpheus and now is with Lock, although she explains enigmatically that some things never change; the programmer Link (Harold Perrineau); Link's wife, Zee (Nona Gaye), who has the obligatory scene where she complains he's away from home too much, and the Oracle (the late Gloria Foster, very portentous). From what we can see of the extras, the population of Zion is largely black.
It has become commonplace for science fiction epics to feature one or two African-American stars, but we've come a long way since Billy Dee Williams in "Return of the Jedi." The Wachowski brothers use so many African Americans, I suspect, not for their box-office appeal, because the Matrix is the star of the movie, and not because they are good actors (which they are), but because to the white teenagers who are the primary audience for this movie, African-Americans embody a cool, a cachet, an authenticy. Morpheus is the power center of the movie, and Neo's role is essentially to study under him and absorb his mojo.
The film ends with "To Be Concluded," a reminder that the third film in the trilogy arrives in November. Toward the end, there are scenes involving characters who seem pregnant with possibilities for Part 3. One is the Architect (Helmut Bakaltis), who says he designed the Matrix and revises everything Neo thinks he knows about it. Is the Architect a human, or an avatar of the Machines? The thing is, you can never know for sure. He seems to hint that when you strip away one level of false virtual reality, you find another level beneath. Maybe everything so far is several levels up? Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time tells the story of a cosmologist whose speech is interrupted by a little old lady who informs him that the universe rests on the back of a turtle. "Ah, yes, madame," the scientist replies, "but what does the turtle rest on?" The old lady shoots back: "You can't trick me, young man. It's nothing but turtles, turtles, turtles, all the way down." -
MCT:August 13, 2008
Neo and the rebel leaders estimate that they have 72 hours until 250,000 probes discover Zion and destroy it and its inhabitants. During this, Neo must decide how he can save Trinity from a dark fate in his dreams. Not a bad sequal although it could of been better than this. Great acting by all the cast memebrs of this film. The directing by Andy Wachowski and Larry Wachowski was amazing. The action scenes were great as well as exciting to watch. This film was a great sequal.
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mariefuller80posted 72 days ago -
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I really enjoyed it, especially the fight with seraph. What is it that drives you Neo? What is the nature of your troubles, and why are you on that path instead of another?
The "Burly Brawl" was awesome!!posted 423 days ago -
-whimperwhine- The twiiiiiiiins.
I loved them, and thought that their part was WAY too short-lived.
But all in all one of the best movies that I've seen in a while.posted 441 days ago -
This part is the best of the series. I really enjoyed it. The philosophical issues pose in the movie weren't that hard to understand.
The action scenes were crazy!!! The Merovingian...he needed his bourgeois self taken down a bit *rofl*posted 479 days ago -
i love all of the matrix movies i love the talk about the possibility of another world running ours and sometimes full believe there is a part of this movie that is true. if i could wake from this world to find a world beyond myself i would want to and if keanu was the one God in that world it really would be heaven!
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I love the matrix trilogy not usally my sort of film but i think its great:)
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GOD.
I Love The Matrix! Keanu Reeves Rocks!
I Think The First One Was Too Cheesy =|
I Love This One Thought!posted 748 days ago -
And the first had all that philosophical rambling too but it was worked into a STORY, something which Reloaded is severely lacking.
It's got about as much depth as a video game.posted 753 days ago -
It's the poor, stupid cousin of the original. Those action scenes are cool the first time around but after that the movie, when it's forced to rely on story and characters, falls flat on its arse.
The effects are very shiny but completely empty and unmoving. The effects in the original showed us new things, they fitted into the story and they warped our perception of the world the characters lived in. Neo's mouth just plain melted. The Bullet Time served a function (unlike in Trinity's fall where it's just an overblown slow motion shot). The agent training freeze was a neat reversal in the scene. Here, in Reloaded, all we get are big shots of Zion and machines burying (the real world sections of the original were always the least interesting parts), some jumped up kung fu fight which serves no purpose and a highway chase (wow, that's new).
The Matrix had high stakes, a human story, an interesting new world and some amazing action. Reloaded is a direct-to-dvd kung fu film with money.posted 753 days ago
