Road to The Matrix Resurrections - The Matrix Reloaded Review

 

The Matrix Reloaded is a 2003 sci-fi action flick and the sequel to 1999's The Matrix. The movie was produced by Village Roadshow Pictures, NPV Entertainment, and Silver Pictures and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. The Matrix Reloaded was written and directed by The Wachowskis Brothers.

The story is Morpheus, Neo, Trinity and the rest of their crew and humanity continue to fight on in their war against the machines. Things are getting worse when the last human city Zion is estimated to go under sieged from the machine army in 72 hours. And just make things even more horrifying, Neo finds out that Agent Smith has become a rogue program and can clone himself with either other agents or people inside the Matrix. Now humanity must find a way to stop both these threats or die.

• Negatives

I've got nothing to say. Let's move on.

• Mix

One mix bag was the CGI. There were times when it was pretty good, other times no, it was bad. Really bad. I thought the CGI from the first movie was outdated, but this is worse.

The other gray area was the dialogue. There plenty of times when the more philosophical talk was actually done well. Then there were those bits when it just came off as pretentious, and those parts will make you roll your eyes because those are the parts where the movie was trying to be smarter than it is.

• Positives

Now to talk about the better aspects of The Matrix Reloaded and that was the directing. The Wachowskis did a fantastic job once again. One shot that I liked was when Smith was walking towards Neo, and there were all of these crows flying away from him. Such a badass shot.

What I also liked was the action. Even if the CGI was bothering me, I still dug a lot of what was happening during those scenes. My favorites were definitely Neo vs. Smith and his clones and that epic highway chase. That last one probably being the most insane.

Another thing that I've come to enjoy was the score. A lot of that music got stuck in my head when I first saw the movie, and after watching it again for this review it's stuck in there. My favorite one is "Burly Brawl".

The all time best thing about the film was Zion. Where the first movie gave us very little details about Zion, Reloaded gave us a full picture of the city. We get to see how it operates, what the government is like, and how people live normal or normalish lives. This aspect along with everything else we were told during the movie, really helped expand the world of the Matrix.

I feel as though The Matrix Reloaded gets way too much hate. Yes, the CGI is good in some scenes and bad in others, and sometimes the dialogue can either be pretty good or come as trying to be smart. However, I still enjoyed the Wachowskis' directing, the action, the beautiful score, and the world of Zion.

My final rating is Good.

Okay I'm all done here. Come back on Thursday, Sept 9th cause we'll be going on another road. That one being the Road to The Batman with my review of Batman Begins. Until then, enjoy the rest of your day.