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The Matrix Reloaded (2003)

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Reviews Counted:230

Fresh:167

Rotten:63

Average Rating:6.8/10

Consensus: A worthy sequel even if it is a little heady and less satifying than the first Matrix.

Runtime: 2 hrs 18 mins

Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy

US Box Office: $281,492,479

Synopsis: What if the Prophecy is true? What if tomorrow this war could be over? Isn't that worth fighting for? Isn't that worth dying for? Thomas "Neo" Anderson (KEANU REEVES) made a costly decision... What if the Prophecy is true? What if tomorrow this war could be over? Isn't that worth fighting for? Isn't that worth dying for? Thomas "Neo" Anderson (KEANU REEVES) made a costly decision when he chose to ask the question that Morpheus (LAURENCE FISHBURNE) and Trinity (CARRIE-ANNE MOSS) had asked before him. To seek and accept the truth. To free his mind from the Matrix. Everything begins with choice. Now, in the second chapter of the Matrix trilogy, Neo assumes greater command of his extraordinary powers as Zion falls under siege to the Machine Army. Only a matter of hours separates the last human enclave on Earth from 250,000 Sentinels programmed to destroy mankind. But the citizens of Zion, emboldened by Morpheus’s conviction that the One will fulfill the Oracle’s Prophecy and end the war with the Machines, rest all manner of hope and expectation on Neo, who finds himself stalled by disturbing visions as he searches for a course of action. We can never see past a choice we don’t understand. Strengthened by their love for each other and their belief in themselves, Neo and Trinity choose to return to the Matrix with Morpheus and unleash their arsenal of extraordinary skills and weaponry against the systematic forces of repression and exploitation. But there exist powerful figures within the Matrix who refute the artifice of choice, evading the responsibility it brings as they feed on the emotional truths of others. Choice is an illusion created between those with power and those without. Meanwhile, there are exiles like Agent Smith (HUGO WEAVING), whose inexorable connection to Neo compels him to disobey the system that has called for his deletion. Driven by the humanity he once despised, Smith will consume everything in his path on his quest for revenge. What do all men with power want? More power. On his treacherous journey toward further insight into the construct of the Matrix and his pivotal role in the fate of mankind, Neo will confront greater resistance, an even greater truth and a more impossible choice than he ever imagined. You didn’t come here to make the choice. You’ve already made it. You’re here to try to understand why you made it. At the confluence of love and truth, faith and knowledge, purpose and reason, Neo must follow the course he has chosen. “What if I can’t?” he asks. “What if I fail?” Then Zion will fall. Warner Bros. Pictures presents, in association with Village Roadshow Pictures and NPV Entertainment, a Silver Pictures production, The Matrix Reloaded, starring KEANU REEVES, LAURENCE FISHBURNE and CARRIE-ANNE MOSS. The film also stars HUGO WEAVING, JADA PINKETT SMITH and GLORIA FOSTER. The Matrix Reloaded is written and directed by THE WACHOWSKI BROTHERS and produced by JOEL SILVER. The executive producers are ANDY WACHOWSKI, LARRY WACHOWSKI, GRANT HILL, ANDREW MASON and BRUCE BERMAN. The director of photography is BILL POPE, A.S.C.; the production designer is OWEN PATERSON; the editor is ZACH STAENBERG, A.C.E.; the music is composed by DON DAVIS; the visual effects supervisor is JOHN GAETA; and the costume designer is KYM BARRETT. The Matrix Reloaded will be released worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company, and in select territories by Village Roadshow Pictures. The Matrix Reloaded has been rated “R” by the MPAA for “sci-fi violence and some sexuality.” [More]

Starring: Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, Laurence Fishburne, Hugo Weaving

Starring: Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, Laurence Fishburne, Hugo Weaving, Harold Perrineau, Jada Pinkett Smith, Monica Bellucci, Anthony Zerbe, Nona Gaye, Gina Torres, Adrian Rayment, Neil Rayment, Gloria Foster, Collin Chou, Randall Duk Kim, Helmut Bakaitis, Lambert Wilson, Clayton Watson, Daniel Bernhardt, Harry J. Lennix, Steve Bastoni, Christine Anu, Cornel West

Director: Larry Wachowski, Andy Wachowski

Director: Larry Wachowski, Andy Wachowski
Screenwriter: Andy Wachowski, Larry Wachowski
Producer: Joel Silver
Composer: Don Davis
Studio: Warner Bros.

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Full Review Source: Dark Horizons | comment Comment
06/08/03
Garth Franklin
Garth Franklin
Dark Horizons
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Full Review Source: Sydney Morning Herald | comment Comment
05/16/03
Sydney Morning Herald
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High budget, high concept, high drama and high level action are the highlights, but Reloaded has loads of love, too, and much more: it’s sci-fi with raunch, for one thing. Death defying stunts, by the dozen.

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05/13/03
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Full Review Source: Cinema Crazed | comment Comment
04/29/09
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Cinema Crazed

Between the money scenes, we get characters standing at attention and burping prophecies and deep thoughts at each other.

Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment Comment
03/11/08
Rob Gonsalves
Rob Gonsalves
eFilmCritic.com

...less a narrative than an advertisement for a cultural wave. It's all about discount Zen and black clothes, the commodification of sterile violence as Kabuki.

Full Review Source: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette | comment 1 Comment
10/29/07
Philip Martin
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

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Full Review Source: Big Picture Big Sound | comment Comment
07/14/07
Joe Lozito
Joe Lozito
Big Picture Big Sound

If you're 14 or younger in age or sensibility, you may giggle at some of the bons mots.

Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | comment Comment
06/08/07
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Chicago Reader

Worryingly, the longer this movie goes on, the harder it is to care.

Full Review Source: Time Out | comment Comment
02/09/06
Derek Adams
Derek Adams
Time Out

Tremendously bad.

Full Review Source: Film Threat | comment Comment
12/06/05
Chuck Russel
Chuck Russel
Film Threat

The Matrix Reloaded -- not unlike its predecessor -- might be hard to swallow, but it's so delicious you just can't help but want more.

Full Review Source: Film Threat | comment Comment
12/06/05
Clint Morris
Clint Morris
Film Threat

Now if I can just make it until November to see how those loose ends tie up...

Full Review Source: Film Threat | comment Comment
12/06/05
Kevin Carr
Kevin Carr
Film Threat

Entertaining enough to make it worth the price of a movie ticket.

Full Review Source: Three Movie Buffs | comment Comment
09/30/05
Scott Nash
Scott Nash
Three Movie Buffs

A solid followup to a truly genre-transcending film.

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06/21/05
Bill Clark
Bill Clark
FromTheBalcony

'What made the first film so satisfying -- the detailed creepiness of human enslavement by technology -- is barely touched on here.'

Full Review Source: Las Vegas Mercury | comment Comment
03/22/05
Jeannette Catsoulis
Jeannette Catsoulis
Las Vegas Mercury

I can't wait to see what the Wachowski's have in store.

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03/05/05
Ethan Alter
Ethan Alter
NYC Film Critic

The philosophical riddling becomes too convoluted. The awe-inspiring fight scenes run too long, delivering few surprises and zero suspense. And the kung-fu/wire-fu confrontations become tedious.

Full Review Source: Looking Closer | comment Comment
01/15/05
Jeffrey Overstreet
Jeffrey Overstreet
Looking Closer

Do fans care this high dollar eye candy is much ado about really nothing?

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10/14/04
Steve Crum
Steve Crum
Kansas City Kansan

Sure to entertain, philosophize, and leave you hanging for the final chapter.

Full Review Source: Oregon Herald | comment Comment
08/13/04
Mark Sells
Mark Sells
Oregon Herald

Reloaded can't match the initial thrill sensation in the first. What it does do is expound on the original with considerable style and move the story forward.

Full Review Source: Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY) | comment Comment
06/23/04
Judith Egerton
Judith Egerton
Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY)
 
 
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