Everything that has a beginning has an end... Reloaded

Just watched the Matrix Revolutions last night with a coupla my army mates and famed (hehehe...) Seedbed-cum-Spooning With Satan guitarist, Alvin Ananthan. And not to worry, this article will not contain any spoilers as I know there are a couple of you guys out there who haven't watched it yet.

As usual, Melvin was bitching about how the slo-mo action sequences look lame and dated. Presumably so, it drew quite a few chuckles in the theatres while Carrie-Ann Moss did her gravity-defying tumbles and kicks in the air. But what impressed me and Roy the most was Monica Bellucci's (yeah, baby, yeah... ) fearsome twins were in that gravity-defying push-up. Fierce. Me likes.

Thankfully, they cut down the philosophical mumbo-jumbo to the minimum this time. The Matrix Reloaded was like a fucken bad episode of Neon Genesis Evangelion all over again ("Where am I? How do I know I exist? Can existence be ever proven?" Me:"Hell, you'd know about existence by eating my fist for dinner, bitch!!!"). The bulk of it was pure action which it was all good. Not too draggy and not too overwrought.

However, knowing the Wachowski brothers, there were a couple of stinkers and cheese. You have to watch for yourselves and laugh. Melvin (cuz he was sitting beside me) was sniggering away when Hugo Weaving aka Agent Smith started spouting his smock of philosophical crap. My membersss... was laughing away at how it seemed so contrived and forced. It just didn't seem right to him. Just like how Michael Jackson forces his arguements that he didn't bleach his skin. (Now, that's a joke that seems forced)

However, I think that it's an apt ending for the series and the brothers have decided that there would be no more sequels. Mercifully. They won't have to stoop to the lows of the Alien franchise. Alien 3 was bad but Alien: Resurrection was pointless, especially without the animatronics of the creature. But I digress.

The series have been called the thinking man's action movie. Rightfully so. But in my opinion, the Wachowski brothers' greatest coup was that they managed to create a movie that engages the viewers in so many ways. Each individual one believes that their perception and understanding of the movie has been the correct one. Perhaps, even reflecting the source (heh...) of the movie itself where the Matrix is a perception of reality. In viewing the movie, everyone has their own take on what is happening and that alone is a Matrix that you build around your understanding of the movie.

Oh my gawd!!! I'm stooping to mumbo jumbo bullshit again... The virus is inflectin' me...

In any case, before I end this, I'd like to give out one teeny-weeny bit of spoiler. For those of you who told me that when Neo returned to the real world in the Matrix Reloaded, he was still stuck in the Matrix as with everyone and there is no such real world. Everything was the Matrix and that's why he was able to control the machines in the real world. Well, guys, you were WRONG!!! You morons, hahaha....