Matrix - the original, made you sit up and take notice....
The greenish glow sets, cool dark glasses, and unbelievable fight sequences created a cult following - a new definition to the ’AM’ for time - the After Matrix.
Matrix Reloaded, which I happened to see 2 days back(yeah a bootlegged copy, and the DMCA might slap irons on me) was a bad disappointment...and I need not write the ’’diss’’ in bold. I don’t want the story to be spilt, nor would I want the millions of Matrix fans who are waiting to see this to take this as any measure of the movie, but it was very different from 1.
Too much of kissing for one. Neo and Trinity seem to be too much lost in love(which is not a bad thing), but then if I wanted to see people kissing in lycra suits, I’d rather not be using Matrix-Reloaded as my benchmark. Then there was Monica Belluci...she’s hot, and there is a uhmmy kissing scene between her and Neo. And of course, Morpheus and Jada Pinkett Smith. too much ’’mushiness’’ and ’’feeling’ built into the moviem, quite unlike the first part. Maybe these make for better ’’formulas’’, or whatever...
What follows is great...the action scenes are great....Neo fighting a 100 cloned Hugo Weavings, revolving around with a pole as an axle...stops hundreds of bullets, ala Matrix one end...etc..The fight scenes are mind boggling, there is still a lot of the old touch, but there is something more, the mushiness of the first thirds of the movie, which was hard for me. If you can digest that, then you’ll enjoy this.