The Matrix Reloaded (2003)

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If you're 14 or younger in age or sensibility, you may giggle at some of the bons mots.

June 8, 2007 Full Review | Comments (5)

Jonathan Rosenbaum

Chicago Reader

Top Critic

Worryingly, the longer this movie goes on, the harder it is to care.

February 9, 2006 Full Review

Derek Adams

Time Out

Top Critic

I liked this movie and can recommend it with a clear critical conscience, but it never moved me even half as much as Steven Spielberg's A.I.

June 11, 2003 Full Review | Comment (1)

Andrew Sarris

New York Observer

Top Critic

A sadder, wiser, more grown-up movie than its predecessor.

June 3, 2003 Full Review

Andrew O'Hehir

Salon.com

Top Critic

In the face of almost unbearable expectations, the Wachowski brothers deliver a sequel that soars to places only hinted at in the original.

May 19, 2003 Full Review | Comments (2)

Richard Roeper

Ebert & Roeper

Top Critic

You don't have to buy into the geeky mythmaking in The Matrix Reloaded in order to enjoy its kinetic pleasures.

May 18, 2003 Full Review

Peter Rainer

New York Magazine

Top Critic

Though introducing some new ideas and characters, Matrix Reloaded is not as exciting as the 1999 original, suffering from problems that often inflict middle chapters of trilogies.

July 1, 2012 Full Review

Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

Not one of the worst sequels that has ever been put in movie theaters, and not one of the most disappointing... but, is it ever a grind.

May 31, 2012 Full Review | Comment (1)

Tim Brayton

Antagony & Ecstasy

Electrifying but still violent 2nd in trilogy.

December 28, 2010 Full Review

Nell Minow

Common Sense Media

The encoded bloom is off the digital rose in The Matrix Reloaded. [Blu-ray]

September 8, 2010 Full Review

Peter Canavese

Groucho Reviews

Offers some phenomenal action sequences that more than deliver on the jaw-dropping promise shown on the trailers.

January 9, 2010 Full Review

Michael Dequina

TheMovieReport.com

The Wachowskis manage to surprise and amaze with some stunning machine special effects and great scenes that truly dazzle the mind.

April 29, 2009 Full Review

Felix Vasquez Jr.

Cinema Crazed

Between the money scenes, we get characters standing at attention and burping prophecies and deep thoughts at each other.

March 11, 2008 Full Review

Rob Gonsalves

eFilmCritic.com

...less a narrative than an advertisement for a cultural wave. It's all about discount Zen and black clothes, the commodification of sterile violence as Kabuki.

October 29, 2007 Full Review | Comments (2)

Philip Martin

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

As a movie, its pacing is off, its characters are thin and its plot is...well, questionable at best. But as a science-fiction phenomenon, it is art.

July 14, 2007 Full Review

Joe Lozito

Big Picture Big Sound

Now if I can just make it until November to see how those loose ends tie up...

December 6, 2005 Full Review

Kevin Carr

Film Threat

The Matrix Reloaded -- not unlike its predecessor -- might be hard to swallow, but it's so delicious you just can't help but want more.

December 6, 2005 Full Review

Clint Morris

Film Threat

Tremendously bad.

December 6, 2005 Full Review

Chuck Russel

Film Threat

Entertaining enough to make it worth the price of a movie ticket.

September 30, 2005 Full Review

Scott Nash

Three Movie Buffs

Trying to describe it is futile. Just go see it.

July 5, 2005 Full Review

Bullz-Eye.com

A solid followup to a truly genre-transcending film.

June 21, 2005 Full Review

Bill Clark

FromTheBalcony

'What made the first film so satisfying -- the detailed creepiness of human enslavement by technology -- is barely touched on here.'

March 22, 2005 Full Review

Jeannette Catsoulis

Las Vegas Mercury

I can't wait to see what the Wachowski's have in store.

March 5, 2005 Full Review

Ethan Alter

NYC Film Critic

The philosophical riddling becomes too convoluted. The awe-inspiring fight scenes run too long, delivering few surprises and zero suspense. And the kung-fu/wire-fu confrontations become tedious.

January 15, 2005 Full Review

Jeffrey Overstreet

Looking Closer

• 1. Merovingian: I have sampled every language, French is my favorite. Fantastic language, especially to curse with. Nom de dieu de putain de bordel de merde de saloperie de connard d?enculé de ta mère. Like wiping your ass with silk.
  – Submitted by Oskars P (15 days ago)
• 1. Merovingian: What is the reason? Soon the why and the reason are gone and all that matters is the feeling. This is the nature of the universe. We struggle against it, we fight to deny it; but it is of course a lie. Beneath our poised appearance we are completely out of control.
  – Submitted by Samuel R (4 months ago)
• 1. The Architect: Hope, it is the quintessential human delusion, simultaneously the source of your greatest strength, and your greatest weakness.
  – Submitted by Geraldo G (6 months ago)
• 1. Agent Smith: Mr. Anderson! Surprised to me?
  – Submitted by Carlos Diego O (6 months ago)
• 1. Morpheus: What if tomorrow the war could be over? Isn't that worth fighting for? Isn't that worth dying for?
  – Submitted by Adam C (9 months ago)
• 1. The Keymaker: We do only what we're meant to do.
  – Submitted by Typhon Q (9 months ago)

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