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Editor's rating:
4.0
Thursday, 15 May 2003
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Written by
Bill Warren
"Matrix Reloaded" is another visit to the imagination of The Wachowski Brothers; like its predecessor, it's jammed with special effects, jaw-dropping action sequences and lots of strange details and even stranger people (which many of them really are not). If this movie stood alone, it would be greeted with the same intense enthusiasm that the original received, and it too would pass from being a mere movie, however popular, to the genuine world-wide cultural bombshell like the first one did.
But though it's still rich with incident and amazing action sequences, "Matrix Reloaded" is likely to be greeted with some disappointment, even contempt, by some who are simply expecting too much. Also, the film is much more conventional -- like other films -- than the original, but this aspect was hard to avoid. The Wachowskis are seeking to finish the story ...
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