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Originally posted by Nonoxynol9:
Seraph, The Merovingian, Persephone, The Trainman... All potentially cool characters and subplots that never had a resolution. ... This is especially true in the Trainman's case. Who the fuck was he? He was an Exile who helped smuggle programs from the Source into the Matrix. This I understood. But how did Neo get to the Trainman's realm (Mobile Ave)? And all that power (he punched Neo into a wall)... for what? They chase him, he runs, he shows back up at the Merovingian's club. And then he takes Trinity to Neo. So? That could've been anyone. Why make a big deal out of a character (who's nothing more than a plot device to further the story), and then throw him away?
Exactly.

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The whole Hell Club scene was a total disappointment. I was expecting something akin to the lobby shootout from the first movie: ten minutes of slow-mo bullet-time fire-fighting, with our heroes acrobatically dodging lead, leaping, jumping, cartwheeling, etc. Oooooh, so the bad guys could walk on ceilings. This had the potential of being REALLY FUCKING COOL, but came out TOTALLY LAME. Rushed, rushed, rushed.
The only thing I liked about HEL were the lesbians in the foreground frenching as one twisted the other's nipple.

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The Zion Battle was visually stunning. But almost TOO stunning. So much shit was going on in front of me that I didn't know what to focus on. I understood the basic gist of things: the APU's were shooting the Sentinels. But everything was happening so fast, the explosions were so numerous, the action so intense, that I didn't know what the fuck I was watching. Too much of a good thing can be a bad thing, in this case. And why the hell did the Sentinels form a line? Why didn't they just disperse as soon as they breached the docks and come at the APU's from all directions? Instead they stayed in a swarm, an easy target for the humans to aim at. In any case, there was a lot of fun stuff to watch, but in the end, it was sensory overload. It had no emotional resonance.
I didn't understand the "superior" logic of the AI either. Make a swarm like bees even though we look like octopi! In reality, dispersion is the smarter tactic, but this is a movie, and some humans have to live.

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Neo going blind? WTF?! Utter bullshit!! What was this supposed to represent? That Neo shouldn't rely on his senses to guide him? There was NO NEED for Neo to go blind. Did he HAVE to go blind in order to reach 01, the Machine City? Someone please explain this to me, please.
That choice confirmed my beliefs that the Wachowski's are simple literary plagarizers. If you compare Neo to Paul Atreides, they're practically one and the same. Neo's bred with a purpose unknown to him... so's Paul. Neo's learns to use the Matrix to his advantage... Paul learns the "Weirding Way". Neo is blinded... Paul is blinded. Neo dies for the sake of humanity... Paul dies for the sake his people.

If I look closer, I'm sure I can find other "similarities" to other properties within this series.


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Trinity dying. Dude. This had no emotional impact whatsoever. She already died once! Of course, Neo brought her back. But dying AGAIN in this one? We've seen it once before... it just lowered the intended emotional impact, for me.
Shoulda kept her dead in Reloaded.

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Smith. Smith... I don't know. He was fucking menacing as hell in the first one. A true threat to our heroes. In the second one, the Agents lost all their scariness. First Morpheus kicks an Agent's ass, and then Trinity goes head to head with one. What ever happened to the "You see an Agent, you run" concept? If these guys are so bad-ass, then how come everyone and their mother's standing up to them? I understand the reason why Morpheus went up against Smith in the first one (to help Neo escape), but he got his fucking ass kicked. This went out the door in the second film, and wasn't even addressed in the third. Smith's virus-like infection of the Matrix made sense, but... again... this whole idea just left a bad taste in my mouth.
I agree.

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Oh, and one thing that kinda bothered me... If a hovercraft could go high enough to pass out of the scorched layer of atmosphere and see the sun and blue skies... why didn't the machines just build solar batteries on top of giant towers that poked out above the layer of blackened sky?
It wouldn't work 'cause the electrical storms. And I didn't see any towers poking pass the clouds...