Interesting review in this week’s Entertainment Weekly on The Matrix Reloaded. Their main point is that what’s wrong with Reloaded isn’t ham-handed dialogue (compared unfavorably to the latest of Lucas’ writing—quite the accomplishment) nor pedantic overacting, nor even overblown action scenes that never seem to end. No, the problem they had with Reloaded is Neo and the fact that he is, for all intents and purposes a superhero…
“Fighting a hundred Agent Smiths is a neat trick, but when Neo can just take off when things start to get iffy, the scene carries no narrative weight.”
What’s interesting about this for me is that I came across almost that exact same argument, nearly word for word, on one of the Matrix sites I’ve visited recently. (It’s probably a blog, but I don’t remember which one.) I guess it’s safe to say that if you look through all the stuff on the Internet about The Matrix, you’ll be able to find virtually every theory, criticism and review imaginable (kind of like the “put a hundred monkeys in a room with typewriters and eventually they’ll write the complete works of Shakespeare” idea). But it’s still kind of interesting to see it show up in print like that.
“Fighting a hundred Agent Smiths is a neat trick, but when Neo can just take off when things start to get iffy, the scene carries no narrative weight.”
What’s interesting about this for me is that I came across almost that exact same argument, nearly word for word, on one of the Matrix sites I’ve visited recently. (It’s probably a blog, but I don’t remember which one.) I guess it’s safe to say that if you look through all the stuff on the Internet about The Matrix, you’ll be able to find virtually every theory, criticism and review imaginable (kind of like the “put a hundred monkeys in a room with typewriters and eventually they’ll write the complete works of Shakespeare” idea). But it’s still kind of interesting to see it show up in print like that.
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