Batman: Vol 7 : Endgame
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For years, the Joker has regarded Batman with a sick, twisted love, thinking that one could never...
Half Blood Blues
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Chip told us not to go out. Said, don't you boys tempt the devil. But it been one brawl of a night,...
David McK (3191 KP) rated The Matrix Reloaded (2003) in Movies
Sep 20, 2020
Most of which, nearly 20 years later, have largely been forgotten, with 'the Matrix sequels' almost becoming a by word for disappointing sequels.
Re-watching this back, it's actually not all bad: yes, there is an element of truth in the charge that this mid entry is over pretentious - especially in The Architect scenes - and that Niobe/Ghost scenes largely exist only to tie into the computer games - but there is also plenty to enjoy here - this is the film that has the 'burly brawl', the Merovingian chateau fight scene, the freeway chase and Neo going full-on Superman!
(And, yes, I used to think that, at the end, they were still in The Matrix, until Revolutions came out)
LEGO Indiana Jones
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LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures takes the fun and creative construction of LEGO and...
Goldfinger (1964)
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After a pre-titles "mini-adventure" in which James Bond destroys the base of a drug lord and defeats...
Rare Replay
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To celebrate its 30th anniversary, Rare brings together the adventures of its iconic characters in a...
David McK (3191 KP) rated The Matrix Resurrections (2021) in Movies
Feb 9, 2022 (Updated Oct 1, 2023)
Pre Millennium.
Just at the start of our current high-tech always-on society.
And The Matrix was released, becoming hugely influential in the process and popularising the concept of 'bullet time'.
Both the sequels (Reloaded and Revolutions) were released during 'the year of the Matrix' in 2003, doubling down on the philosophical ponderings of the first movie (in particular, during Reloaded, with the whole still-to-this-day confusing Architect scenes), with Revolutions also seemingly leaving the trilogy with nowhere to go.
Until nearly 20 years later, when one of the two Wachowski siblings decided to resurrect both Neo and Trinity in this.
I's very much a film of two halves, with the first half in particular hugely self-referential (lots of nods and winks to the audience, and even clips from the earlier films shown on TV screens within the movie), while the second half settles down more into your standard action fare.
Whilst enjoyable enough, it lacks anything to match the sheer pizzaz of the first movie, or even the Freeway chase/burly brawl/chateau fight from the second or the Neo Vs Smith showdown in the third.
The Marlowe Papers
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Winner of the 2013 Desmond Eliott Award for New Fiction On May 30th, 1593, a celebrated young...