2003 SF, dir. Wachowskis, Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne;
IMDb /
allmovie. See Neo fight.
Fight, Neo, fight.
You got nothing to say. Say it louder, man!
I like action films. But I like action films with characters in them.
Otherwise it's just a two hour special effects reel.
The more you lean on the Great Romance between Neo and Trinity, the
more I realise that I actually know very little about these people
except that they Love Each Other for no obvious reason.
Agent Smith was interesting, but now he's become The Joker, just
another psychopathic supervillain.
Yeah, you employed Toshiro Mifune. Great. You could have given him
something to do.
Oh look you killed a woman to motivate a man. I've never seen that
before.
There are bits of this pair of films that almost make it. The way the
periodic rebellions are not the Most Important Thing Ever but a
necessary reset. I mean, sure, it completely devalues the first film,
but who cares about that right?
I talk about this film further on
Ribbon of Memes.
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