  I originally planned to see “The Matrix Reloaded” in an IMAX theatre. I figured there couldn’t be a better place to see a movie with such bowel-shaking visuals, but I didn’t plan ahead and the movie was only in IMAX for a week, so I missed it. As time passed I cared less and less about seeing the movie till I almost entirely forgot about it; but the DVD just came out so I figured I’d give it a go.
Let me say this: WOW. That is a BAD movie. I believed all the talk about the bad dialogue and the creepy love scene, but it was worse than I imagined. I thought the visuals could easily propel a badly written script, but the effects were mostly the same ones from the first Matrix only over-used and slightly refined. The slow-motion time became irritating as well as boring after it was applied to every action scene. The actors in many of the shots were replaced with computer generated models to achieve stunts hard to create in real life; but the first short film in “The Animatrix”, a separate, completely animated companion to “The Matrix”, had better computer models than the real movie. The models looked like wax statues and moved like rag dolls, destroying any realism to the ridiculous stunts. As far as impressive special effects, the freeway scene has its moments and I’m sure is bowel-disturbing on a big screen.
The twins’ ghost forms were a cool effect, but the villains didn’t get as much screen time as they should have. With a better script, the movie could have been very decent, but the dialogue, as well as the acting, was astoundingly bad. Neo’s Christ status only served to give the directors something to geek off about ; it does nothing for the story. The love scene is disgusting; Carrie Ann Moss makes icky sex faces and we end up with a butt shot of Keanu.
Lawrence Fishburne is a huge ass. He over-articulates all of his lines and moves so melodramatically he comes off like a drama kid playing “Matrix” with his friends. And why should I care Jada Smith was in the movie? I doubt the next Matrix will be much better since the Wachoski brothers had no time to listen to feedback in time to get the movie out this Christmas. 
