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Although I didn't think the movie was as gripping as the original, the SFX were far better. The story could have been much better and the action scenes more breath-taking, if the movie had not been hyped so much. How many teasers/trailers were there? I think we all saw entirely too much of what was to come and it spoiled it for some of us.
And I agree that Neo got a little too much focus. Trinity starts it off with a quick rally and gets her ass kicked later on. Morpheus struggles a bit and doesn't do anything really amazing. Niobe has a sequence so short that if you blink, you miss it. And poor Agent Smith (or his clones rather) is made to look ridiculously inferior.
The only reason I was able to give Reloaded any amount of due respect was because it's part of a saga -- not a movie in its own right. It's merely the first half of a movie, or if you want to be anal, the middle sequence of a trilogy. I'm willing to bet that after seeing its integration with Revoltions, many people will change their minds about Reloaded. The Matrix gave us questions and answers to those questions. Reloaded gave us questions about those answers. And Revolutions will in turn answer those.
Then again, when was the last time an action sequel truly kicked ass? The only two that come to mind are Terminator 2 and Aliens, which both had a seven year interval from the original.
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