The Matrix Reloaded (2003)

Rating: 70%
Part two of the trilogy and the next movie to review: The Matrix Reloaded.

Plot: Six months after the events of the first film, Neo, Trinity and Morpheus have been continuing the fight against the machines who are starting to plan an invasion against the last human city of Zion. Meanwhile, Neo gets a call from The Oracle who tells him that he has to now reach the Source of The Matrix and that in order to do that, he must find The Keymaker. But things become more challenging to Neo as Agent Smith turns out to be alive and is able to clone himself at will and is still trying to kill him.

This movie isn't not quite as good as the first movie, but it has a lot of elements that make it still a good film and a good sequel. We go further into the story, we go deeper into the characters, and of coarse, we expand further into the all around world of The Matrix Trilogy by finally seeing Zion along with some new locations of The Matrix itself. The action is also slightly bigger and yet also a tiny bit bloodier while we face some new enemies - namely The Twins. The effects are about the same but they do find different ways of using some of them and are still enjoyable to see. Neo becomes even more fun to watch now that he believes he is The One and has become more powerful since the last film. And Agent Smith also become more enjoyable now that he can basically copy himself and become even more menacing then he was before. Now this film seems to be hated to a lot of people which I don't think I ever got. I mean it's not as good as the first movie of coarse, but it isn't bad per say. There where only two negative things about it that made the most sense, and both of them I agree with, but not completely. One was that it has a ton of exposition dialogue and has a lot of unresolved subplots. And I do agree that the dialogue is confusing in some areas where I only begin to understand what they're saying in those moments as I get older and older. However, they don't quite get so confusing to the point where it's all the way distracting me from the film. I will admit however that in some cases, it is a matter of forgetting that you need to show and not tell what is happening. And a lot of the subplots are left unresolved, but most of them (at least the ones I can think of right now, to pay off in some way in the next film, so that helps.

And that's my review for The Matrix Reloaded. It has it's problems with leaving some things to pay off in the next film and being a little too heavy on the dialogue, but it otherwise goes further into the story, characters, all around world, action and in some respects the effects that make The Matrix Reloaded not as good as the first but a good sequel to carry out the story.