Post by The Curmudgeon on Mar 18, 2007 18:00:34 GMT 2
Wake me when its over.
I mentioned in another review that I think I may be psychic. I had one of my "moments" with this, the turgid sequel to the excellent Matrix.
I really did enjoy the original movie. It certainly brought something new to the table, even if we did have to endure Keanu Reeves. But it was worth it, raising the bar for action movies and making sure every lame-ass "parody" movie would have a Matrix-bullet-time sketch.
But then I KNEW they were gonna blow it, I KNEW it wasn't going to be good. But hooo boy, I didn't think it would be THIS bad.
If you haven't seen it, let me tell ya - it is AW-FUL. It's as if the Wachowski brothers went, "hmm. You know what? We don't really have much of a story this time. Let's just hide that fact behind a ton of pretentious psycho-babble and hope people think it's intelligent, and if that doesn't work, we'll just throw LOADS and LOADS and LOADS of effects at them. That'll work".
Not with The Curmudgeon it didn't. This really was one woeful movie. Avoid like a suicide bomber.
