Review of The Matrix Reloaded (2003) by Filipeneto — 17 Jan 2020

Okay, I expected much better. After a movie as inspired and as original as "The Matrix", the minimum expected was something equivalent, especially given that we have back the entire original team, including the directors, who also sign the script.

What we have in this film is the beginning of the ultimate conflict between machines and human beings. The film continues to bet on the style created earlier, and it continues to look cool, and trying to keep it up most of the time. The fight scenes have become even more impressive and stylized. The special effects are fantastic, all the actors' work is good despite being as impersonal and cold as in the first film. The actors do the best they can, but they don't always achieve the brilliance of the first film. There's just something missing. In addition, the film has moments that shouldn't be there: the sex scene was expendable, and I hated that kind of rave, with little clothes and more like the beginning of a gigantic orgy. Yes, in fact they are about to start a gigantic battle that decides whether everyone lives or dies ... and what they want to do is to be semi-naked and rub their bodies together, to the sound of an electronic beat. There's logic! So much logic as the strange and inexplicable ability acquired by the villainous agent to copy himself to exhaustion.

The film maintains the good production values of its predecessor, but is much weaker in script and storytelling. This ultimately harms it greatly.