It’s hard to tell how best to write this review. I’m trying to write them from the point of view of not reviewing the films per-se, after all as I said in yesterday’s review of The Matrix, there are plenty of reviews, a lot better than I can produce, already out there, but rather I’m trying to review the trilogy from my feelings watching it now in 2014.
And while I thought the original film has dated badly to the point that it no almost feels no longer relevant, the second installment – The Matrix Reloaded – feels like it’s become a failure of it’s own success. You actually get an overwhelming sense that what you are watching is not the middle part of a trilogy but rather an entire film of poor editing. The final two films in the trilogy were released within 6 months of each other and this just reaffirms my sense that this film, is not in fact a pre-planned continuation of the story but rather the The Wachowski Brothers, unable to cut enough of the second film out to make it purely a sequel and have instead, turned what would have been one very long film into two shorter ones.
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