The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
Country: US/AUS
Technical: Technicolor/Super 35 138m
Director: The Wachowski Brothers
Cast: Laurence Fishburne, Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, Monica Bellucci, Hugo Weaving, Lambert Wilson, Anthony Zerbe
Synopsis:
The machines close in on the city of Zion, and while the human fleet retrenches in readiness for the onslaught, three ships are despatched to escort Neo on a last ditch mission to contact the Oracle and steal the Keymaker from the Merovingian, a French-spouting Dis in all but name, in order to gain access to the architect of the matrix...
Review:
And to think some people take this postmodern nonsense seriously! The mythological references are fun and there is some philosophical content, as in the first film, along the lines of choice versus freedom, but the architect's baffling torrent of polysyllables at the end must have had most punters reaching for their dictionaries and will no doubt therefore be a fund for scrutiny by the DVD nerds in due course. The ingenious fight scenes, in which assailants get punched out again and again to no avail, grow a little wearing after a while, though the freeway sequence is a showstopper (even though it had this viewer wondering how the traffic got moving so quickly after each pile-up...). After two hours of (literally) death-defying feats one is left struggling to reckon up exactly what are the ground rules in this virtual world of agents and acrobatics.
Country: US/AUS
Technical: Technicolor/Super 35 138m
Director: The Wachowski Brothers
Cast: Laurence Fishburne, Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, Monica Bellucci, Hugo Weaving, Lambert Wilson, Anthony Zerbe
Synopsis:
The machines close in on the city of Zion, and while the human fleet retrenches in readiness for the onslaught, three ships are despatched to escort Neo on a last ditch mission to contact the Oracle and steal the Keymaker from the Merovingian, a French-spouting Dis in all but name, in order to gain access to the architect of the matrix...
Review:
And to think some people take this postmodern nonsense seriously! The mythological references are fun and there is some philosophical content, as in the first film, along the lines of choice versus freedom, but the architect's baffling torrent of polysyllables at the end must have had most punters reaching for their dictionaries and will no doubt therefore be a fund for scrutiny by the DVD nerds in due course. The ingenious fight scenes, in which assailants get punched out again and again to no avail, grow a little wearing after a while, though the freeway sequence is a showstopper (even though it had this viewer wondering how the traffic got moving so quickly after each pile-up...). After two hours of (literally) death-defying feats one is left struggling to reckon up exactly what are the ground rules in this virtual world of agents and acrobatics.
Country: US/AUS
Technical: Technicolor/Super 35 138m
Director: The Wachowski Brothers
Cast: Laurence Fishburne, Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, Monica Bellucci, Hugo Weaving, Lambert Wilson, Anthony Zerbe
Synopsis:
The machines close in on the city of Zion, and while the human fleet retrenches in readiness for the onslaught, three ships are despatched to escort Neo on a last ditch mission to contact the Oracle and steal the Keymaker from the Merovingian, a French-spouting Dis in all but name, in order to gain access to the architect of the matrix...
Review:
And to think some people take this postmodern nonsense seriously! The mythological references are fun and there is some philosophical content, as in the first film, along the lines of choice versus freedom, but the architect's baffling torrent of polysyllables at the end must have had most punters reaching for their dictionaries and will no doubt therefore be a fund for scrutiny by the DVD nerds in due course. The ingenious fight scenes, in which assailants get punched out again and again to no avail, grow a little wearing after a while, though the freeway sequence is a showstopper (even though it had this viewer wondering how the traffic got moving so quickly after each pile-up...). After two hours of (literally) death-defying feats one is left struggling to reckon up exactly what are the ground rules in this virtual world of agents and acrobatics.