The Matrix Reloaded: Critic Reviews

Trash made heady and volcanic and bravura. Supersized.

The martial arts sequences are breathtakingly staged.

It all adds up to 138 minutes of very high-quality entertainment: and it's not often the time whizzes by as entertainingly as this.

Reloaded seems less tired than X2.

Delivers, in spades, exactly what you should expect from a popcorn flick.

No, it's not great. No, it's not a disaster.

The thrill isn't gone from the sequel, but the surprise is, and it hurts more than you'd think.

The refreshing draft of effervescent movie magic leaves a sludgy sediment of metaphysics. The latter may be less than brain-buzzing; the former is something else, thanks largely to genius fight choreographer Yuen Wo Ping.

Early in the movie, Morpheus warns a new character that he's got to have faith. All things considered, The Matrix Reloaded justifies that faith.

Perhaps because this story is slacker, it's more obvious the way the Wachowskis strain to keep us wowed -- not only in special effects and action scenes but also with dialogue and fashion, too.

Buckle up and enjoy the ride.

A kinetic, digital feat.

You don't have to buy into the geeky mythmaking in The Matrix Reloaded in order to enjoy its kinetic pleasures.

Matrix Reloaded is, unlike the first film, a conventional comic-book movie, in places a campy conventional comic-book movie, and in places a ludicrously campy conventional comic-book movie.

An immensely skillful sci-fi adventure.

For such a rich visual movie, Reloaded tells far more than it shows.

If you're 14 or younger in age or sensibility, you may giggle at some of the bons mots.

While I enjoyed it immensely, Reloaded didn't upgrade my system like the first one did.

For sheer exhilarating spectacle, The Matrix Reloaded is the film to beat this year.

Few nonbelievers will be persuaded by the film, even fewer of those within the fold will be discouraged by it, but despite its faults, The Matrix has indeed been reloaded.

In this first Matrix sequel, you'll see things you've never seen before on a movie screen, and that's all that matters.

I liked this movie and can recommend it with a clear critical conscience, but it never moved me even half as much as Steven Spielberg's A.I.

Delivers enough thrills, kicks and cool moments to satiate geeks, fans and mere general viewers worldwide.

While it's exhilarating fun, as an overall piece of storytelling, this reboot never really hits the heights of the ultra-cool The Matrix, which re-invented the rules for sci-fi epics in 1999.

Dark, with jaw-dropping effects, stunning action beats and a chase to end all chases, The Matrix Reloaded is a movie-going dare.