Warner Brothers Pictures pulls out all the stops with more than
two hours of all-out action in
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The Matrix: Reloaded,
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currently playing at Premiere Cinemas.
Warner Brothers Pictures pulls out all the stops with more than two hours of all-out action in “The Matrix: Reloaded,” currently playing at Premiere Cinemas.
This two-hour and 18-minute film, which has taken the box office by storm with a record-breaking $93 million opening weekend, is the ultimate fix for action/adventure fans. If you like fast-paced, stylish fighting, lots of gun play, dramatic car chases and car wrecks, then this is your movie.
However, if you’re looking for great dramatic acting and character study, you’re not going to find it here. But for an action/adventure film, the acting is superior to what you would find in most movies in the genre.
And I have to credit directors Andy and Larry Wachowski. The brother filmmaking team tried hard to make the plot to “Reloaded” more than just a flimsy excuse to get from one action sequence to the next.
The Wachowskis (“Bound,” “Assassins” and “The Matrix”) co-wrote the script for “Reloaded” with the intention of giving the film least one meaningful theme – the power of choice.
“Reloaded” begins with the remaining crew of the ship Nebuchadnezzar returning to the underground city of Zion, where all the world’s already-freed humans live, but where not everyone is convinced that Neo is the One or even that the prophecies are real. Making things more urgent is that the machines have sent an attack force of 250,000 Sentinels who will reach Zion in 72 hours and attempt to destroy the remaining humans not hooked up to the matrix.
In an attempt to stop the attack, Keanu Reeves, reprising the role of Neo, must reconsult the Oracle and follow her confusing and often murky directions while fending off attacks from Agents and other killer computer programs, including his old nemesis Agent Smith (Hugo Weaving), who has returned to the Matrix with greater powers.
Neo, Morpheus and Trinity figure out a way to get to what they believe is the source of the machines power and a way to shut off the Matrix, but first they have to wade through a flock of killer programs and security to even have a chance at reaching the source.
But the biggest star is the 1,000 special effects used to give this film its stylish look and some breathtaking sequences. One such sequence included a car chase – but not just any other car chase.
To achieve the look they wanted, the filmmakers actually built a realistic-looking freeway and wrecked dozens of cars, trucks and motorcycles to create one of the movie’s signature sequences.
In spite of all the positives, this movie is not suitable for young children. There are some sexual scenes and too much violence.
