The Matrix Reloaded - Movie Review 

Ben Wasserman I second this

evilempireUK, the production company that made Sound of Thunder went bankrupt. That's why the effects looks bad.

It didn't bother me that much though, because this character in the movie is 100% CGI all the time. Here they go back and forth between real Keanu and CGI Keanu and it looks 5x worse.

ne the worst CGI in any 2000's movie was Van Helsing...jesus it looked like Claymation.

That film is a masterpiece.

Nice T-shirt by the way, Chris. I love Sailor Moon.

ewww an Sao fan

Asuna Yuuki Yup. One of the best car chases I've ever watched in a movie!

Asuna Yuuki ur opinion doesn't matter cus you're a sao fangirl/boy

They built a quarter mile of highway on an airplane runway for that car chase

To me that was what the movies of 1999 were all about. Combining counter-cultural aesthetics and groundbreaking cinematic techniques to craft beautiful, philosophical, dark, and impactful films like The Matrix, Fight Club, and American Beauty.

Marli Andersen literally just finished it and yeah it's perfectly adequate

Marli Andersen same dude.

Agreed

Hell yeah same here. What a movie!

Yeah....nope.

Watch the Raid 2. Whole movie is "the best action sequences in movie history"

PREACH. The highway scene is fucking great tho.

no its not if you seen any jackie chan movie the raid 2 is pretty average action wise

You're 1000% wrong.

Those twins were cool..

She is literally the tits.

Well not literally, she is a human being

Borat69able VIRTUE! VIRTUE!

Monica Bellucci is answer to all those saying superhero women look unrealistic.

also the ghost twins

I agree, what we're they thinking!?!?

Ouchies FTW they were thinking Frieza vs goku

What ruins my immersion is how poorly the cgi has aged.

@@dereklewis4321 just think about it as the matrix being overloaded and having rendering issues LOL it helps me

@@sclark615 "what we are they thinking"?

Yeah the twins are underappreciated and should get more shine!!!

No

@@parthsarthimuranjan9069The final version of the music IS the best one there for the scenes.

Aniket Bagchi There's nothing left to say, it's great.

Aniket Bagchi good idea

Aniket Bagchi what about aliens? he made a review but that was a long time ago and his style has changed a lot. btw, imo Aliens > Terminator 2

Aniket Bagchi but you know he's gonna give it an A+

WarGamer 42​​ of course. But it would be fun to listen to chris analyze the movie. Its not just about the grade

Yes I believe ❤️

Watched it for the first time and man does it suck ass. The fight scenes with the CGI cuts every few moments are super cheesy. The story, acting and every part of this movie is cheese. I stopped watching with about 20 minutes to go

I think it's great.

@@daninbox yeah well some people are born with more than half a brain.

Its a good sequence and like Chris mentioned in his review pretty much all the in-camera work is great (it looks like it did in the first film). Had the Neo vs Agent Smiths fight been around 20-30 of them played by actual people (or as many as they could get with the outer ones being CG perhaps) it would have been much better. We got what we got though and that's why even though parts of it are good it doesn't reach the high bar set by the original film.

Yeah. It was like they wanted to show the worst of humanity by showing our last hold out would be a place where humanity would do the things they used to do when they wanted to forget about reality, by doing E, dancing to meaningless music, and hooking up. If that is the very depths of the human experience, humans wouldn't deserve to exist. Perhaps for some, that, health, and youth is the pinnacle of existence, but lucky enough, some of us have found something that puts that to shame, and even they know how empty that is, which is why we have movies like this and Nowhere, which explore the emptiness of that kind of life.

Honestly, the orgy didn't bother me. But the Neo and Trinity "love scene"...no chemestry

Lmfao

This comment actually made me laugh out loud, and that does not happen very often. Thank you!

The scene _needed_ to be there. Like "Cypher" says in the 1st movie, he was sick of eating the same "goop" every day, being cold all the time, and I would add living inside what may as well be a giant car engine where nearly everything is metal. As Tank says in the 1st film, Zion is one of the few places on Earth where it's still warm. Even the programs in the Matrix, they hang out in hoity-toity restaurants and night clubs, but it's all basically an illusion...as they're just imitating a dead era of humanity, and everyone wears fancy clothes and nobody gets "dirty". The rave scene basically answers the question of why humans want to be free for real, and not plugged into a VR fantasy land all the time. Don't know about any of you, but I am totally down to rave out in a cave full of hot, sweaty women, torches and drum music. Or put it this way: Consider the traditional image of what sailors are like, after spending months at sea in cramped metal hallways and bunks, and in the case of guys on submarines, not even breathing fresh air the whole time. Think of how sailors are well-known for partying when they dock somewhere(even the ones from a long time ago, when all ships were made of wood and used sails). The rave happens after all ships are called home, and the "sailors" finally get to let off steam. It's a change of pace that's _very_ familiar(if not obligatory) if you've ever been in the military. Those old folks are called the "baby boom generation" for a reason.

Hugh Mungus That is a cinematic tour de force Magnum opus

The Rubber Rock :D.

You're so right. I was 9 when that movie came out and even then I knew something was very off about it.

Hugh Mungus is that sexual harassment?

Year later, Uma Thurman in Percy Jackson looks almost worse.

Actually....the Animatrix built upon more of the world that Reloaded and Revolutions talked about.

the animatrix along with the enter the matrix games explains a good amount about some of the side characters in the movies

That exposition story was great. But the rest was broken up in those psychedelic chunks, no structure.

The stories explaining the history of the Matrix universe were amazing. I'd watch the shit out of a prequel based on them.

It was cool to see the evolution of the Machine War and how humanity lost, but it really didn't explain or show anything else. It didn't show the first iterations of the Matrix, or the Anomaly/One (you know, to illustrate how Neo was different from his predecessors), the creation of Zion and the Resistance, or any other burning question I had.

The first movie has the ability to stand on its own as an individual film better than the second and third ones in the series...... However, as a whole trilogy.... They are all perfect.

Oh and gotta go with the film music, Chris! The old track reminded me of Space Odyssey's original soundtrack. Fun segment in your interview!

I kind of agree. You get to the architect scene expecting him to make every clear and instead he further confuses things.

how does it classify as a "western" fight scene?

TXkid124 It's a western movie? You compare this to eastern movie fight scenes and will get pretty buried.

The Architect scene is one of those scenes you really can't get until you watch it several times. The Wichowski Bros/siblings really nailed what a machine would sound like to people.

more like the Watchowskis sisters but yes

Exactly my sentiments actually.

No, it is never just you and people need to stop saying that.

2nd one was okay but 3rd one was garbage imho

I really liked Reloaded, but Revolutions is fucking boring

I agree

Rust T perspective with time is amazing, isn't it?

Same here. The more I watch both sequels, the more they made sense.

I’m the opposite. Loved them when I was younger, but now I’m disappointed with them after a rewatch

I had the exact same experience. I just recently re-watched the trilogy during quarantine and liked the all them quite a bit.

Nick Byrd this might make me sound insane but imo the Matrix trilogy is about on par with the LOTR trilogy

Mr Maws CGI characters dominated the early 2000s, if that's their argument about this movie then it's a flawed one.

Imperial stats I was agreeing with you actually

I'm sorry but Revolutions is the most heavy-handed, convuluted, anti-climatic end to a trilogy ever. Every chance that movie has to have a great story is thrown away to show some more cool effects and way too far on the nose imagery. Also, the ending of that film retroactively makes the other two worse imo

Imperial stats​ The whole thing with the Matrix rebooting again retroactively makes you care about the characters less, especially Neo, because you realize that what they're doing doesn't really matter much at all because the system will just reboot and the cycle will repeat. That's just me though

Chris Robinson The simplest explanation was Neo was the only well The One lol who choose Zion or life over the Matrix. Even though he didn't believe in fate at first, it ended up being his in the end, however he still didn't allow anyone to control his own life.

kbg12ila they both are, there is no out-of-matrix Smith wo Neo and no chosen one wo Smith. It feels like everybody watched that film theory episode and turned off their brains completely by the end of it.

kbg12ila watched film theory huh ?

Mr. ANDERSON!!!

kbg12ila film theory sucks

kbg12ila explain?

Jose A. Mendoza-Huijon You beat me to it.

It was cool if you were 12 but you probably were so

@@saulhernnadez9203 I wasn't even born, I'll be 9 next year.

@@QuantumBraced talk to us in like 10 years.

@@saulhernnadez9203 Way to be a dick, dude. And yes, the fight scene is pretty cool though it’s not the best part of the movie or even the best fight.

Can't wait for the 4th one to be a D-

​@@dereklewis4321 pretty much expecting a D from the 4th. If they'll cut the new movie in the same pace as every other movie recently, it's just going to be weightless. And they will. I could watch another Animatrix volume though.

Revolutions was an F for me, worst movie I have ever seen

Oh yeah. The cg is excusable since they're in a computer program and neo understands the code

yeah that is my in universe excuse, the matrix is having a hard time processing the fight so they reduce the rendering quality

thestalkinghead That's kind of brilliant. Too bad the movie didn't think of it.

thestalkinghead lol awesome idea

I liked it, but my expectations were not as high as most...because it was my 1st Matrix movie. Yes I saw 2 and 3 before I bothered to watch #1 haha, still enjoyed them.

Alot of people forget this

The scene with the Architect also has alot of depth in it.

And the oracle explains (she talks a bit too long for an action movie though) how programs have a choice to hide - that's how Smith stayed

Ohh hi mark ehhh, not quite that bad.

Ohh hi mark Except the Matrix was already bad

Not even close.

YEAH my favorite was the first Matrix. 2 was ok 3 was really bad.

Ohh hi mark what lol no way dude, matrix 2 and 3 were a lot worse than tje first. the star prequels 2 and 3 were better than the first prequel

American beauty maybe

Who am i? Jackie chan

This is funny but after watching his video about growing up as a Jehova’s Witness it kind of makes sense that maybe he escaped into movies a bit.

Ginanjar Putu Wijaya then you should rewatch the movie maybe.

Steven Goodman I'm just saying that it wasn't that bad for its generation.

just because it was high end technically for its generation doesnt mean that its a good idea to use it. the concept of the fight was stupid and ridiculous and the execution in CG was a bad idea because it looks ridiculous despite being high end tech in 2003

I disagree that the concept is stupid. At least, it's no more or less stupid than the rest of the ideas in the movie. As far as I'm concerned the ideas in the fight are sound, it's the execution where it trips up. Assuming you can ignore the rubbery look of the CG, Neo and the smiths feel weightless in a lot of sections and those are the particularly egregious ones like the running-on-smiths bit. On the other hand, there were also a lot of sections that were competently done in terms of the flow of the scene and the feel of the action, which is more important to some (like me) than raw fidelity. You're free to dislike it, but it's definitely not as bad as some people say it is. There's far worse CG that's come out in the last ten years.

yeb. thats ok. for some people it just sums up. i still feel like its a bad concept to make a fight like this for several reasons chief among them is the lack of weight, emotion and suspense. the fight doesnt have any impact and just devalues fighting agent smith big time. it should have made agent smith more menacing but it did so in such a cheap way. but thats just my opinion on the fight. then you have to add up the bad execution. it would have been ok for a trashy movie but not for a sequel to the very serious matrix.

darkovilos potential insecurities on anime...

Noah Redfern Nope I basically just enviously look behind him. Look at how many movies he have not to mention those figures, well I did notice Sailor Moon and Mars in the corner lol

I think Noah was talking about Chris

brothers?

JOE40341 Since one of them is transgender they are brothers no more (I discovered this a few weeks ago)

Buraz93 Huh? Why on Earth would that be sad?

Living a life of misery, taking drugs that unnaturally change your body is sad. Lost of trans people kill themselves.

Plus, it's just unnatural

He knows that you dweeb

KrisTina Yes!! 🖒

KrisTina he should do one keanu movie a month. after speed do point break... then devil's advocate. and i would get a good little giggle if he did parenthood. 😁

+This Girl Reviews he already did years ago

I think you mean 'The bus that couldn't slow down.'

John Hutchins hahahaaa YEAHHHH !!! ;)

anyone seen that movie?

holy crap that movie is terrible...

*triggered* ...I made the mistake of watching that movie once...it haunts me even to this day

The ending was funny

Yes please do that !

The daughter character in Part 3... Good lord she was bad in the movie.

2nd was eh but I personally really like the 3rd one

Zeo Patroller What about the highway scene in the second one, I love that scene!

King of Wakanda Watch them

I really wish I hadn't watched Reloaded, and I didn't bother with the 3rd.

You should see them all. the first one is definitely much better but the other ones are still enjoyable ;-)

lilia nunes Nah

lilia nunes I've been wanting that movie forever

Tyler Wingo me too

This is a great idea

Fucking love that movie. One of my favorites

XD Productions also one of the most overrated

Especially after you learn it ripped off Grant Morrison's The Invisibles pretty heavily.

Still is a good movie.

agreed...still..it's was pretty cool for its time...certainly new for the western culture.

Your far from one of the best movies ever

I still think the CGI in blade 2 looks good. Yes even then it was clear it was CGI but I like the effect. Especially when they would show Blade jumping off something and landing. It worked well for me.

A lot of the CGI was better in Reloaded. Compare the Sentinels and compare the Nebuchadnezzar scenes to those of the first film, and they are way superior. The Smiths vs Neo sequence would've looked like a bad video-game had they tried that in the first film.

George Teed Probably cos you're a mook.

...but it DID look like a bad video game in "Reloaded"!!! O_o lol I remember seeing this in '03 in theaters as well as people were almost laughing at how over the top and cartoony the CGI was was in that sequence!

Agreed. I remember despising the scene when I first saw it, thinking it looked like a video game. Like, what's the point in watching something like that? Why not just make the movie animated if you want to show shit that can't be done with actual people?

Forest Rivers animatrix second reinassance is indeed quite scary

I loved Beyond and Detective Story and that segment with the runner. And of course the CGI one. Kid's story wasn't bad either but the rest was meh. Hated the second renaissance.

Venser kid's story has the most artistic aproach in animatrix, even linkin park hired the animation director to make breaking the habit mv after they saw kid's story

He did review the Animatrix, and I really liked program and beyond n.n

He already did a review for animatrix....

Steven Griffiths did u regret doin that? I actually did both, but X-Men came 1st though lol

Pretty much my exact experience. I view the trilogy as one of the best of all time.

Let's get this comment to the top so chris sees it!

What about the look when The Nice Guys doesn't? There are so many Oscar bait movies this year that will snub it I bet.

DO IT CHRIS!!

DO IT!!

The World Is Logic you're not Palpatine

list of movies Stuckman should review: (may have already reviewed) Pulp Fiction Leon The Professional Sev7n The Usual Suspects American Beauty American History X Fight Club!!*don't ruin the surprise* Memento Sunshine of the spotless mind The Game

Alex Hitchwins I think he already reviewed 7 and Memento

Ivo Sotirov my exact thoughts. I love the deep philosophical and mythical analogies and the fact that they don’t assume the audience is too stupid to understand. Which is why I loved the SW prequels for bringing in politics into the story.

Reloaded is such a stupid movie

I don't remember seeing it in theaters originally as I'm only. Now 28 years old and obviously didn't have the means to see it originally. But it's my favorite of the three. Love the key maker and The twins with agent Smith.

I love the French language, I have sampled them all. French is a wonderful language to curse in. (Speaks French sounding words.) Cause and causality. I speak French, and now I must sample some escargot.

no it'd be a better film but still okay.

I'd argue that what bogs the film down are the philosophizing scenes. We needed a lot less of those and a lot more character building scenes. You know, something to make us care about what happens.

Godfather?

Knightself GG back to the future

the dark knight 😑

the dark knight

Never got into godfather never watched back to the future I don't think dark knight compares to films like those

Thank you. I was wondering about this because I still don’t see his review on M4. That makes sense.