I've also been avoiding this topic (and everything else related to this movie, such as reviews and trailers - as I do with every film I intend to see) before seeing it for myself to ensure myself of being surprised by it, and I sure was surprised! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
Right after I left I had a feeling of "this film was ok", but the more I think about this film, the better I like it! - Right now, this movie is simply brilliant imo, maybe tomorrow it'll be even better <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />
This is really the kind of movie you should think about, and I think this is the only mistake they've made: all the hype and merchandising make people believe The Matrix trilogy is something else than it really is; it's not what people expect from it and people are disappointed because of that. Moreover, it's a difficult movie, a very difficult one, and in contrast to the first movie, where the (matrix) theory is explained clearly one step at a time, Reloaded casts you in a huge chaos with only clues and pieces you have to put together by yourself... This is not what most people want from a movie, this is also not what we're used to getting from Hollywood.
This Matrix trilogy seems, in a certain way, to be to the action/sf genre what David Lynch is to the thriller: it's more than what it appears to be, and more importantly, it's different from what you'd expect from it...
Many people will disagree with me <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> but I think that what they've done with this sequel is exactly what they should have done - in any way, most people would probably have been disappointed with this sequel anyway, it could never be as overwhelming as the first Matrix was, when all of it was new and never done before. If they had made this a superhero movie with only the Matrix theory from the first movie as a basis, everybody would have said it's a typical sequel, the first movie but
more. I think the difficult plot is exactly what makes this movie interesting - the Matrix trilogy will probably become the typical kind of movie(s) of which one group (the majority, from what I'm picking up) hates it, and the other group loves it. Since I love it, I won't complain about that <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />. I wish there were some more hollywood movies like this <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
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