This post is titled by author SoulJah. I'm gonna go with Fandi on this one and say that Matrix: Reloaded was one movie worth the premiere ticket alone. Even though the experience was marred somewhat when Syazwi blurted out vital scenes, but it was all good. The fight sequences alone can kick Swordfish's "Bullet Time Bombing Scene" butt several times over, especially the Agent Smith Clones Fight Scene. And the fact that some moronic woman speaking in Malay located somewhere behind us jeering the Agents, I can live past that. The story wants to be convoluted though, which in theory makes this movie somewhat confusing. But in the end, it was supposed to be simple, and in retrospect, you can see it's just a simple storyline, if you were paying attention of course.

But paying attention with over hundreds of movie goers complaining, moaning, groaning and whining, about the scene where the creator was talking is a difficult task. Shit. I mean it was only around 5 minutes, can't you just shut up for a while and let the Matrix aficionado listen? Fuck! I bet I was the only one who knows the purpose of the One, and the purpose of the Oracle.

But they really took liberties with the story though. The Superman bit was really getting annoying the third time around, and the part where Trinity and Neo kissing (5 times! 5 times! 5 times! 5 times! 5 times!) was getting a bit dodgy. I mean we know they're in love but shit... Get a friggin room why don't ya? On second thought, they did.. So ho hum...

This movie also introduces some one off character/characters, which in all honesty, get overhyped so much, in the case of the Twins. But still, there are many characters that doesn't get fleshed out that well. And where did the Operator on the Nebuchadnezzar from the first Matrix movie go off to? He didn't die in the first movie right?

The storyline is good though, introducing real life problems (in the form of variables and error), deceit and, the whole underlying story of Reloaded, purpose, which weren't a big concern in the first Matrix. Emotions as well, in the form of love of course, but also when the people that are already "awake" asking Neo for help in bringing over their relatives still asleep in the Matrix. Right then, you know that humanity is fucked up beyond all repair. Or FUBAR as they might say.

All in all, I give it 7 out of 10. But that's before I get the DVD and of course before I finish playing the game. I'll write another review after I've done both things.

Now onto a review of The Second Renaissance Part 2. This is a gritty and violent episode, plain and simple. Taking it's cue right after the establishment of a machine government and city, ths story continues where it left off. As was said in the first Matrix movie, the humans engineered a plan whereby they would cover the entire globe with a black cloud (as was told by Morpheus in the first program sequence in the Matrix) so as to cut off the machines main source of abundant ebergy.

But the inevitable question arises. How can humans live under that condition? No sun to grow crops, hence no crops to feed the animals that are gonna be consumed. But if we assume that humans didn't think that the war with the machines was gonna be that long, we can safely assume that they wouldn't have yet created the food that was consumed out of necessity in the Matrix movie, where they were eating some gooey amino acid, vitamin filled food. So whose bright idea was it to cover up the sun then?

The ensuing war was a brutal one. Humans using Alien-ish, exoskeleton type of machines fighting against the endless sea of renegade machines. It was rather gritty. Watching Nam-styled soldiers killing wave after wave of machines. At first the humans thought that the battle was swinging their way, but when the machine can just introduce more and more machines, while humans get savegely killed by the emotionless robots, taking survivors into the first iteration of the Matrix to be used as power, you can see the hopelessness, or some would rather say, the hopeless optimism of the whole war.

One scene that stood out so much was when an exoskeleton was breached open by Sentinels, and the human inside it screaming unrecognizable words. Still having his arms and legs connected to the metal exoskeleton, his whole torso and abdomen was pulled using mechanized tentacles. That scene just kept staying in my head.

The lesson here folks, don't piss off the machines.

Something still bothers me though. Where are the robots in the Matrix movies? In the first Matrix, they were addressed as machines, which led some to believe that the only machines are those Sentinels and grab-yo-face-and-drain-you-off robot that Neo was introduced to when he first woke up. Another conclusion some have made is that the machines doesn't exist at all. Their "awareness" as some might refer to, only residing in the binary form, aka The Matrix. I would really like to see those machines though. The robots I mean. But I would really like to see the robot city in the Matrix Movies, as was shown in the Second Renaissance Part 2. But it's safe to assume that there's no longer the need for machines, robots I mean. They don't have a war to wage. Sentinel's are already decimating the humans, so yeah...

There it is... Four free episodes already out on the internet. Now for the rest, I will have to get the DVD containing all 9 episodes. I think $30 for 3 Layer 9 DVDs is a good investment for any Matrix Nut. And no, if I have it, you can't borrow it. Nye nye... :p

Posted by SoulJah at 1:32:00 PM

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