Martix Reloaded

The energy for the movie was in the theatre for the opening night screening. Sadly the movie was too bogged down with unnecessary stuff. What stuff? Almost everything. The storyline in the beginning: unnecessary. The love story: unnecessary. The last 10 minutes of the freeway fight scene: unnecessary. Mind you, this is coming from a person who didn't like the Matrix the first time I saw it.

The Architect scene was an A+ (for both content/story and for effects...how many takes did it take to get all of those reactions from Keanu? Whoa!). Renegade Program concept was a B. The Oracle storyline was crap until the Architect scene (and for those that can read between the lines the Oracle (Gloria Foster) and the Keymaker (Randall Duk Kim) were explained perfectly). I give that a C+. Love story: D-...the "Orgy" scene was 100% unnecessary to the story; Neo's (Keanu Reeves) and Trinity's (Carrie-Anne Moss) carnal obsession while in Zion was 100% unnecessary to the story; the "choice dilemma" would have been greatly enhanced if his love for her were not declared thus making it a choice of not yet discovering their love versus saving mankind. The chocolate cake scene was also unnecessary, but since Monica Bellucci did WONDERS for my Hollywood Stock Exchange account I will give the scene a C+. The Morpheus' (Laurence Fishburne) belief in the Oracle and the Prophecy story I guess I don't have an opinion on yet...I think (hope) that it becomes crucial in the next movie in which case this one would get high marks...otherwise I would have to say it was useless.

Grade: C+