Dood. The Matrix Reloaded kicked quite a bit of buttinsky. It prodded serious buttock. It rocked my world. Click “Continued” for my ramblings on the topic, but be warned, there are spoilers. Huge honking spoilers!! Okay? Don’t say I didn’t warn you.
Hm… how to organize my thoughts? I know.
Things that kicked ass
- The Burly Brawl – 100 Agent Smiths vs. Neo. What’s not to love? Smith was wonderfully snarky and ass-kicking and cool. Several neat one-liners and stuff, too.
- Neo’s new outfit – think a priest for a fetish club or something. Very cassock-y.
- The Twins – dude, those guys rule. All ghostly and freaky and stuff. Good fighters, too.
- The freeway chase – defies description. Just amazing.
Things that didn’t kick so much ass. In fact, they kinda sucked
- The Burly Brawl’s flaws – there are several bits where it’s painfully obvious that everyone on screen is computer generated. Seriously. It looked like a PC video game blown up for the big screen without much shift in resolution quality.
- Neo and Trinity’s chemisty – or rather, the lack thereof. It worked in the first film because Neo’s dumb and Trin is unsure of her affection, but they’re supposed to have this world-changing, amazing love and I just didn’t see it.
- Magical regrowing ports – somehow all the folks who got pulled out of the Matrix (rather than being homegrown) magically had all their ports again. Um, dood, we saw Neo’s ports being removed in the last film. What the hell?
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