[cilbupeR_eerF]

I watched the film yesterday. Though I was impressed with (late coming) action scenes, I was thoroughly dissapointed with the storyline. Morpheus was the biggest let down. His development was essential to the success of the first film and the lack of any development for Morpheus (other than an auxillary participant in one chase scene) parallels the flat storyline.

The first film was powerful with its thought provoking and meaningful concepts, and relied on irony and exagerrated consequences for humor. The first film was so much more powerful because it veered from the stereotypical hollywood interjections of gratuitous sex/romance and lame sarcasm for humor. Not so with the second. 85% of the storyline was a rewrite of superman3 with a smattering of MuppetMovie5 bad guy complete with contrived accents and adolescent french sarcastic humor.

Show up an hour late into the film and you've only missed what's disappointed most.

[Pukin Dog]

Oh, you missed the point altogether.

This story has been told before. You have to look for the meaning of the "superman" parts, as well as those of the "dance".

The french humor that you dismiss, was one of the dead givaways of the movie. Bookmark this thread for after the third film, then see if you still feel the way you do now.

[Porterville]

Morpheus point was that the prophecy was a farce and so is everything he believes in, he became the punk...that was the point.

[Proud2BAmerican]

Two questions from the movie:

Why doesn't Neo just fly away from the Agents to begin with...or say, halfway through the fight, etc.?

Second, Agents are fast enough to dodge bullets, and yet slow enough to let non-Keanu Reeves people get a few punches in? Except for Neo, none of the humans are able to actually dodge bullets. The agents are fast enough to dodge bullets. Ergo, the agents should also be fast enough to pummel anyone BUT Neo, without having their opponent lay a finger on them. I don't git it.