A few things-
I give it a 7 1/2 out of 10. It just didn't really challenge my mind. Sure the CG was good and the action scenes were amazing, but if I wanted action I'd see yet another Jackie Chan movie. I liked the original Matrix cause it changed my world. It was amazingly abstract with the white rabbit, Neo first realizing his world is fake, the white armory room, Morpheus sitting in the chair with a fisheye-type of lens being used...everything was just much more trippy. It almost seemed as if directors changed because Matrix 2 was "action scene, dialog, action scene, dialog, cheesy lame ass joke, action scene, another cheesy joke..." I was like WTF, if I wanted comedy I'd go see Dumb and Dumber. I think adding jokes (at least more than the first) and a exceedingly high ratio of action scenes to whatever else a director can do were both way too extensive. If someone told me that the theater would crack up in laughter more than 10 times in Matrix 2 (went on at least 30 by the end), I would have waited for it to come out on video even though I've been waiting day in and day out for the movie. Just seemed like the directors were going after the wrong things IMO.
Beyond this, onto the story line. Someone said earlier that neo stopping the sentinals could have been actually done by the Nebacanezzer (sp...) because he too was knocked down. Well Trinity was standing right there and didn't fall so scratch that idea. I think that there is for sure some kind of second matrix going on.
Quick background question: Was Matrix 2 written before, during, or after the making or release of part 1?
All in all, I enjoyed the movie and look foreward to seeing it again, as well as seeing part 3. However I think the excess of jokes was absolutely depressing, as were Gimli's in LOTR Twin Towers. I just felt kind of unintelligent while watching it, realizing that the directors aimed their movie towards such an easily-thrown crowd
