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  Review by Karsten ★★★★

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  in many ways this is monsters inc

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  Review by Josh Lewis ★★★★ 18

  The most telling scene on rewatch is that electronic rave montage; a sea of white, brown, and black bodies moving, sweating, grabbing each other, expressing a sense of kinetic freedom... Wachowski sisters, better than most, understand that a vital element of compelling action (that freeway set piece is still undoubtedly an all-timer) is truly understanding what our heroes are fighting for.

  Full discussion on episode 68 of my podcast SLEAZOIDS.

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  Review by David Sims ★★★★★ 10

  THERE’S LITERALLY MORE TO DISCOVER EVERY TIME

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  Review by demi adejuyigbe 18

  okay I… get why this has a mixed reception! it took an extremely unique and groundbreaking piece of science fiction filmmaking and then added some Farscape to the mix. or at least, I think so. I don’t know what actually happens in Farscape. That’s just the name that comes to mind when I think of a random daytime sci-fi show I’d stumble on at a friend’s place in the 2000s because their cable channels aren’t the same as mine. What was going on in the early 2000s that we decided to add political councils to all our greatest sci-fi universes?

  Left me with a lot of questions, this one. Like: okay, Superman exists in the Matrix? That guy programmed a…

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  Review by comrade_yui ★★★★★ 4

  me and the boys having a gnostic rave in the hollow earth

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  Review by Patrick Willems ★★★½ 32

  One of the most frustrating movies ever made.

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  Review by matt lynch ★★★★ 1

  No surprise from the Wachowskis that this is unflinchingly committed to being itself. Few major studio franchise sequels are so unabashedly personal and often frustratingly idiosyncratic. Yet at its very worst it's merely inelegant, the not-infrequently comic portent offset by sheer ambition and technical craft. Speaking of which, it's so easy to forget just how much of this is practical. Fine, set aside the dated digital doubling in the Burly Brawl fight; the remainder of the sequence is damn near a miracle, spinning the camera around 5-10 performers at a time, with as few as maybe 15 cuts a minute. I won't even go into the freeway sequence.

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  Review by Muriel ★★★★★ 4

  i was lied to for many years this movie fucks

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  Review by pilot ★★★★ 1

  a flash mob consisting of 100 hugo weavings

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  Review by maria ★★★½ 10

  keanu reeves, you're breathtaking

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  Review by Eric Szyszka ★★½ 7

  The Matrix is so well paced and lean and The Matrix Reloaded is like "how's tank and dozer's sister's marriage doing?"

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  Review by fran hoepfner ★★★★

  when people said to me, "The Matrix Reloaded is the one with the twins," I didn't realize those were the twins. has there ever been a bad Wachowskis setpiece? plenty to like here: I laughed out loud at the dominoes (bowling pins?) foley when Neo knocks over all the Smiths. it's cool that this Matrix movie introduces the concept of "France"