Not just doubling down on the brain gratingly annoying vagaries and pretentiousness that defined the first film, The Matrix Reloaded also manages to just make things even more confusing, as The Wachowskis, very nearly four years later, and having learned nothing, merely amplify everything from the first film, and do so in an uninspired, laborious manner, ending in one of cinema's most infamous cliff hangers. Now employing a wealth of CGI as the technology had advanced quite a bit since 1999, The Wachowskis double down on overwrought slow motion, the already painfully worn gimmick of "bullet time", and CGI models
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