The film being too slow, as said before me, never bothered me. I liked the pace of the movie and the silence. Actually, most scenes were powerful because nothing was said at all. Had there been more dialogue, the internal struggling by the main characters might have been less visible, obscured by words. This is what a good movie is about, in my opinion: seeing and feeling what goes on in people's minds, what they individually long for and what their expectations of 'the other' are. How people do not meet up to expectations and the difficulty of relations between them is the basis for so many movies, but a viable one. Set against the background of an unpersonal, artificial urban environment somewhere in the '00s, a sense of aimlesness and alianation lies underneath it all. I love the atmosphere, an after-summer Berlin evening; nice camera work. Moving.
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The Matrix Reloaded
(2003)
Over the top
17 May 2003
I had such high expectations of the movie that it could only disappoint me. And it did. Of course the action scenes are overwhelming and never seen anywhere before, but it is just too much. After five minutes we've seen all the kung-fu moves there are. Why the **** do they all fight like Bruce-Lee? If Neo can stop bullets with his hands, he has such a great momentum in his arms/hands that he should be able to erase a person with a single blow of his arm. And not be fighting for minutes. The whole movie thrives on two action scenes, of which the last is, though cinematic-technically brilliant, stupid. Why would they chase each other in cars if, for example, the 'ghost twins' can fly. I mean there are a lot of these inconsequent things ( it is a matrix, a visualisation of numbers in which every move and position can be predicted, so there is no need to chase or fight each other, the outcome is already known). But overall, I enjoyed the last hour of the film most and there are some nice ideas displayed. I like the corridor with 'back doors' idea. The first 30 minutes are sometimes toe-bending (what is that in english?) I mean very sh**ty. Like the pseudo-psychological nonsense of Morpheus and that whole Zion party that looked like one big 'Bacardi commercial.'
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