Have u ever had the feeling when something just makes you weep and laugh with joy and sorrow and a whole plethora of emotions that you didnt even know you could, well, sense?...well matrix 2 wont do any of that so you might as well invest your money in some slick soft porn!in short the first part was soo good that it in itself spelt doom for any tries at making a sequel which could be even half as excellent...
i was luckily enough in europe when the movie came out and thought myself a privileged brown skin to be able to enjoy such a release before my fellow countrymen could...thats not including pirated DVDs which probably came out even before the Wachowski brothers (or summin like that!) started filming the sequel.
anyways, the first part was so much of an eye opener (i took the blue pill and no it wasnt the viagra) and so complete a storyline in itself that the concept of a continuity was negated...a classic example of less is more...
the second movie is full throttle on effects...even the sex scene has a certain ’je-ne-sais-quoi’ (yes there’s one and I sense the indian censor coming into action to take out the only scene involving no gadgets whatsoever!)
but yes, the effects are stunning, the soundtrack is slick...manson mighty himself has lended his voice and other organs to a new composition...and both FX and sound are so beautifully blended in that the mind leaps and back flips in its tiny congested cage...but beyond that there is not much application of the same...most characters are there to complicate the plot so that in case you understood the first part then by jove you are not supposed to anymore...its like some indian soap director (the kind on ZEE, I dont know any by name)asked to do the matrix...it will have a certain sense of exaggeration and thats about as best as I can put it...
yet I will watch it again once it hits the screens here simply coz my friends will want to and because its such pure fun to sit and tell the story (esp in such a movie) a second before it happens!!!
[on a general note: I do not enjoy castrating all that other worthy members recommend as ’’good for you’’! I just am harder to please I guess...]