I for one was happy about the negative, reviews. I went in expecting a crappy movie and was surprised by it being pretty good.
The movie is not the worst movie I've paid to see, and it's far from the best, but it was a good use of my time. The battle scenes were amazing, unlike most CG, I completely forgot it was made by a computer. The plot had holes, the music was terrible compared to the first one (more conventional, where the first one was uber-slick), and it didn't really feel like it related to the first one at all. The first one was a very small scale movie, where small victories mattered. The third one tried to turn the series into this crazy epic scope. It proved to be too large of a jump.
It was especially well made, and certain things were brilliant. Agent Smith, Zion, the fact that the violence in the real world seemed so much more.... disturbing than that of the matrix, the glimmer of sunlight.
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