{"id":663,"date":"2003-06-16T01:05:36","date_gmt":"2003-06-16T01:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-663.html"},"modified":"2006-12-30T16:27:19","modified_gmt":"2006-12-30T16:27:19","slug":"the-matrix-reloaded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/2003\/06\/16\/the-matrix-reloaded\/","title":{"rendered":"<i>The Matrix Reloaded<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The effects, stunts, and fight scenes are unquestionably amazing, but that&#8217;s not enough to make up for an overly dense and bloated plot.  The Wachowskis seem to have become too wrapped up in the hype and over-analysis of the world they created, and disappeared up their own philosphical navels instead of making another kick-ass film.  The fight scenes are <em>beautiful<\/em>, but they lack tension because we pretty much know that Neo is going to win.  (In this respect the most interesting scenes are the ones that <em>don&#8217;t<\/em> feature him.)  The fully computer-generated scenes aren&#8217;t as seamless as they would like you to believe.  It&#8217;s a shame to have to fault the film because it isn&#8217;t as fresh and different as the first episode, but I had been hoping it would be another genre-defining moment.  Instead it&#8217;s merely <em>Matrix<\/em> taken to the next level.  So, it&#8217;s good&#8230;just not <em>great<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The effects, stunts, and fight scenes are unquestionably amazing, but that&#8217;s not enough to make up for an overly dense and bloated plot. The Wachowskis seem to have become too wrapped up in the hype and over-analysis of the world they created, and disappeared up their own philosphical navels instead of making another kick-ass film. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[1142],"class_list":["post-663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films_4_stars","tag-legendshome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}