I actually really enjoyed Reloaded. Obviously not as tightly crafted as the first movie but it embraces the aesthetics of the Matrix so purely it feels like a supercharged Matrix 1. More skin tight leather, more overthetop slomo, more convoluted philosophical discourse. Just takes everything from the first film and dials it up to 100, which I can appreciate because they had the right to do it after making such a paradigm shifting action film in the first one.
Revolutions is just them not knowing how to reconcile all of the aesthetic choices that made the Matrix what it was with a major shift in setting.
I actually really enjoyed Reloaded. Obviously not as tightly crafted as the first movie but it embraces the aesthetics of the Matrix so purely it feels like a supercharged Matrix 1. More skin tight leather, more overthetop slomo, more convoluted philosophical discourse. Just takes everything from the first film and dials it up to 100, which I can appreciate because they had the right to do it after making such a paradigm shifting action film in the first one.
Revolutions is just them not knowing how to reconcile all of the aesthetic choices that made the Matrix what it was with a major shift in setting.
Yeah that's it. They couldn't square that shit away and the ending is so lackluster.