The Matrix Reloaded
The Highway scene was probably one of the best scenes in the movie. I just liked how fast and furious (sorry about that) the scene moved. With the Twins and the Agents, it was just an entertaining scene to watch all around. It demonstrates that complex scenes are what The Brothers do the best and human scenes just fall flat. The music from Juno Reactor and Don Davis should also be noted in the scene, thanks to the fusion of Techno and Orchestra pieces.
However, the movie runs into a problem once that scene ends. The montage with the various teams doing their things was a little sloppy. The montage scenes had no real tension, and when we get to The Architect the movie just comes to a halt. If the dialogue isn’t clever, two people talking in a room in an action movie just doesn’t work. This is part of the problem of the movie; it felt like the film should’ve went through a few more draft runs before going to screen.
The Matrix Reloaded is still entertaining, if a little flawed. With the horrible Revolutions coming out after this movie, it makes me wish the Wachowski brothers threw out all the Zion stuff and combined the two movies into a three hour movie like The Lord of the Rings films. If the story is good enough, people will sit through three hours. Most of The Matrix Revolutions isn’t necessary, and could have been placed into Reloaded easily enough.
Grade B-
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And the wrongly placed bullet marks(or lack of them) on the CTS kills a bit of the magic if you notice it.
The whole problem with the movie is it waasn't a designed epic. Harry Potboy, LOTR, these movies were designed to be totally an epic set across a vast amount of time and film. This cam due to the popular demand so they had to basically start from 40 percent efficiency cos they didnt bother to totally remember what made the original Matrix good, cos if they had planned it well, this would have been one of 'those' epics, like SW(the first set). That's why POTC is so good, they managed to keep it epic and keep it fresh throughout the two movies and hopefully the third.
That is very true, it feels like the first movie was suppose to be the only one, and these two follow ups were tagged on because the first one was a hit. The first Matrix still holds up very well.
Maybe someone should create a Fan-edit of the two films and make into a epic one film.
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