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  The Matrix: Reloaded
With The Matrix: Reloaded, the Wachowskis (The Matrix, Bound) continue to build upon their futuristic world where humans battle robots for their survival.
Reloaded is like a James Bond movie (this is not a compliment) in that it feels like a series of long action sequences, separated not by bad double entendres, but by overly long philosophical exposition.
Reloaded picks up after the original (watching this one without seeing the first will probably result in mass confusion), with Neo coming to terms with his powers and his potential role as mankind's savior.
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 Journal of Religion & Film: The Matrix: Reloaded Film Credits, reviewed by Diana Walsh-Pasulka
Keanu Reeves as Neo in The Matrix: Reloaded
The Matrix and its sequel The Matrix: Reloaded, written and directed by the Wachowski brothers, are an eclectic mix of Gnostic Christian and Buddhist elements mixed with postmodern reflection, most notably that of French philosopher Jean Baudrillard.
The “matrix” is a program created by these computers, and is somewhat like a mass movie that the whole human race is plugged into and by which it is deceived.
www.unomaha.edu /jrf/Vol7No2/reviews/TheMatrixReloadedRev.htm   (872 words)

  
 The Matrix Reloaded (2003)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Matrix is about birth, Reloaded about life and Revolutions about death (rebirth).
Reloaded is man as a builder of theories and civilizations.
Anyway The Matrix concept is already a classic piece of art, the latest transcription of the bible, a new history of mankind, the steepest roller-coaster and much, much, more.
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 The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
Reloaded opens with an extended action sequence that turns out to be a dream in the head of Neo (Keanu Reeves).
However, given his potential status as “The One”, this may not be simple fantasy, and he worries that his recurring vision of the death of his fellow freedom fighter and paramour Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss) may be a precognitive glimpse of the future.
The Matrix Reloaded appears in an aspect ratio of approximately 2.35:1 on this single-sided, double-layered DVD; the image has been enhanced for 16X9 televisions.
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 The Matrix Reloaded
In the second chapter of the Matrix trilogy, freedom fighters Neo (Keanu Reeves), Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss) and Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne) continue to lead the revolt against the Machine Army, unleashing their arsenal of extraordinary skills and weaponry against the systematic forces of repression and exploitation.
In The Matrix, the everyday world is an illusion, and the unseen reality behind it is harmful, whereas in the Bible's worldview, the everyday world is real, and the unseen reality behind it is an infinitely good, infinitely wise, infinitely powerful, personal God.
In The Matrix, the savior / messiah figure Neo is a 'mere mortal', full of self-doubt, who sets out to save the world through dramatic and violent actions.  In the Bible's worldview, the savior / messiah figure is Jesus, the unique Son of God, who saves his people not through violence, but through extreme self-sacrifice.
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 Filmtracks: The Matrix Reloaded (Don Davis)
Perhaps due to the belated arrival of the mandatory sequel, Warner Brothers is releasing two sequels, The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions within the span of a single year.
Interestingly, the original was not predicted to be the smashing success that it was, and thus, the studio did not insist on an A-list composer for the task of scoring the project, allowing instead the hiring of the very talented, but lesser known Don Davis for the post-modern scoring project.
While Davis was hired to reprise his musical role in The Matrix Reloaded, Warner Brothers had seen fan response to the first film and discovered that Davis' score wasn't necessarily the most popular music in that original project.
www.filmtracks.com /titles/matrix_reloaded.html   (1548 words)

  
 The Matrix Reloaded - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Matrix Reloaded is the second installment of The Matrix series, written and directed by the Wachowski brothers and released by Warner Bros. in North American theaters on May 15, 2003 and around the world during the latter half of that month.
Reloaded garnered the biggest (inflation unadjusted) debut ever for an R-rated film (the 2001 film Hannibal is a distant second at $58 million).
The Matrix Reloaded had a positive critical reception in certain sects of the media, with a Rotten Tomatoes score of 74%.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Matrix_Reloaded   (4583 words)

  
 The Matrix Reloaded
Reeves says the next two Matrix chapters "are so beyond the first film it's unbelievable." Without revealing anything about the plot, he promises the films will be deeper and more elaborate in every way, especially in regard to story.
MATRIX star Keanu Reeves hopped straight back on his bike after returning to Sydney from Los Angeles last week.
And with filming of Matrix Reloaded due to start this week, the brooding young hunk looked much more the movie star than last week.
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 The Mediadrome - Reviews - The Matrix Reloaded
Where the first film was a thinking person's action movie that combined elements of technology, martial arts, special effects and Japanese anime for a style that was all its own (and the Wachowskis' inventive "bullet-time" photography didn't hurt either), the sequel definitely advances to the next level.
The Matrix Reloaded is also hampered by an incredible amount of exposition.
The other half, The Matrix Revolutions, doesn't open until November, so in the meantime, Reloaded will have to be judged as a single body of work.
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 The Matrix Reloaded: The Corporate Mofo Guide
Going into The Matrix: Reloaded, I wasn't worried if the fight scenes or special effects would measure up to the first film—it was the metaphysics that bothered me. The first Matrix was such a neat allegory of
He says, basically, that though ninety-nine percent of humans believe in the illusion of the Matrix, there is that troublesome one percent (comparable to the few awakened Gnostic true believers) who refuse to believe in the created world.
At once all human and all machine, rather than being a device to refine the Matrix into a more perfect simulation of reality, re-found Zion, and thus continue the endless cycle of death and rebirth—as the Architect says he is—the purpose of the One is to be manipulated into destroying all of humanity.
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 The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
Review: The Matrix Reloaded is surely one of the most ambitious sequels ever produced and exceeds its predecessor (The Matrix) in presenting more slow motion mayhem, impossible wire-fu, and even more philosophic babble.
The machines that govern the Matrix are within days of tearing into the last remaining bastion of human civilization known as Zion.
Aside from the unknown fate of humankind, the big dangling carrot left by The Matrix was Zion, which we never saw.
www.kungfucinema.com /reviews/matrixreloaded.htm   (1349 words)

  
 The Matrix Reloaded (kottke.org)
[No real spoilers] After reading this breathless article about the Matrix Reloaded in Wired last month, I was very much looking forward to the movie and in particular, the special effects.
The Matrix Reloaded would have worked a lot better as an action movie that took itself a little bit seriously (taking a page from the fun X2 flick) instead of a drama interspersed with action.
The Matrix Reloaded is one of 306 movies reviewed on kottke.org.
www.kottke.org /03/05/the-matrix-reloaded   (323 words)

  
 The Matrix Reloaded   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The Matrix is a vast computer simulation feeding the minds of humanity, whose bodies (housed in row upon row of nutrient-filled cocoons) provide energy for the Machines who have conquered their creators.
As far as everyone "trapped" in the Matrix is concerned, it's the year 1999.
The Matrix Reloaded returns to the same visual sensibilities that made The Matrix such a sensation: the eye-popping martial arts, "bullet time" special effects, and the leather-and-latex supercool of Morpheus and Company.
www.scifidimensions.com /May03/reloaded.htm   (678 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Matrix Reloaded: Music: Various Artists   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Matrix Reloaded boasts one of the most anticipated soundtrack albums in years.
`Matrix Reloaded' was a huge seminal step forward from the first movie, setting the bar even higher for the others to follow.
Then to finish off the music is the `Matrix Reloaded Suite', where Don Davis is able to bring all the threads that musically tie the Matrix together during its nearly 18-minute length.
www.amazon.com /Matrix-Reloaded-Various-Artists/dp/B00008W2OO   (2446 words)

  
 The Matrix: Reloaded, Explained
Zion and the Matrix are consistently portrayed as opposites.
Several iterations of the Matrix are tried, and finally one is devised that allows humans to grow (so they won't reject it).
Matrix 3.0 will be deleted, and quite likely Matrix 4.0 will be in the works, but this time it does not enslave but liberate.
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 Matrix Reloaded (2003) - A Hollywood Jesus Movie Review
Matrix is about waking up and refusing to go back to into the service of the old way.
The Matrix takes these age old ideas and throws them into a computer world, an idea not at all original to the film, but for the first time The Matrix sets out to create a definite answer through the action instead of just posing a question inside the story.
Choice, as often described in The Matrix, is central to human existence, and it is inescapable; even the refusal to choose is a choice.
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 Amazon.co.uk: Matrix Reloaded: Music: Original Soundtrack   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
In many ways the Matrix Reloaded soundtrack is what should've happened with that for the first movie.
But here in Reloaded he picks up the same themes again but combined with the sensibilities of Juno Reactor the whole thing is jumpstarted and kicked into high gear.
The Matrix Reloaded album contains to disc of music from what what was probably the greatest file in 2003 (along with The Matrix Revolutions).
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 The MATRIX 101 - Understanding The Matrix Reloaded
The Matrix Reloaded, released in May 2003, was not what many people had been expecting from the first sequel to 1999's The Matrix.
Dense with ideas and unexpected twists, Reloaded was bigger, stronger, faster, and far sexier than the first movie had been.
These polls proved prophetic, as Reloaded broke several box office records in becoming the fastest film to reach $150 million in ticket sales (only 6 days), and also in having the biggest opening week ever.
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 Matrix Reloaded, The (2003): Reviews
If The Matrix Reloaded is a trip through high-toned mediocrity, not nearly as suggestive or cohesive as ''The Matrix,'' it's one of the most wizardly mediocre movies I've seen in quite some time.
Where The Matrix was a heady cocktail of gnostic Zen Philip K. Dick cyberpunk '60s psychedelic bull, well spiked with high-octane digitally driven Hong Kong action pyrotechnics, those elements reloaded soon separate out.
In making The Matrix's leaden answer to "The Phantom Menace," the Wachowski brothers seem to be afflicted with George Lucas Syndrome: They're so enthralled by the convoluted mythology of their own private universe that they've lost touch with its human core.
www.metacritic.com /film/titles/matrixreloaded   (1848 words)

  
 The Matrix Reloaded.
The Matrix of life is projected and connected to each perceptual individual consciousness through a Thought/Supercomputer (The Matrix) that interacts with its sensory input/output individual computer (brain).
The unplugging from a lower-level MATRIX to a higher level one is always monitored by higher levels (Creators) of the Original Awareness and is only given if the awarenesses that define a creation show a higher purpose of being and co-operative inclination.
The Creator of that Matrix often feels that in order to ensure the continuity of the experience of that Matrix by its unaware sub-parts, It is required to think for them and act for them without them being aware of it.
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 Amazon.co.uk: The Matrix Reloaded [2003]: DVD: Ray Anthony (III),Christine Anu,Andy Arness,Alima Ashton-Sheibu,Helmut ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The Matrix Reloaded continues the story but with a twist-the machines have 'reloaded' the Matrix with better agents and new, worse characters.
Reloaded may not make perfect sense but you can follow the plot to a point where you can understand what is going on and why.
Reloaded is a film you can watch over and over again and has thrown keanu Reaves into superstardom, he has just starred in the brilliant "Constantine".
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 Amazon.ca: The Matrix Reloaded (Widescreen) (2 Discs): DVD: David R. Ellis,Andy Wachowski,Ray Anthony,Josephine ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Matrix was a mind-blowing one-trick-pony that just did not stretch into to a second movie well.
Among other things, Reloaded is so top-heavy with bombast and claptrap that I actually stopped caring about the characters and had no further interest in what might happen.
As in "The Matrix", the opening Warner Bros. logo is green on a gray sky, and the opening Village Roadshow logo is green.
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 THE MATRIX RELOADED (R): ChildCare Action Project (CAP) Media Analysis Report MAR23051
Such is a rather worn-out science fiction formula plot but The Matrix Reloaded manages to put a brighter coat of paint of many colors on The Matrix and manages to skew the logic enough to titillate the imagination, in spite of the droll little episodes of mundane philosophizing.
The Sentinels (sort of anti-virus programs of the matrix, the brilliant performance of Hugo Weaving as one of the Sentinels, Agent Smith) do their best to kill all humans who have broken free of the matrix and who are aware of the real reality and of the oppression of the matrix.
The Matrix Reloaded is a computer geek's hearty meal and a sci-fi fanatic's cinematic fix, but it is rated R and deserves it.
www.capalert.com /capreports/matrixreloaded.htm   (2915 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Matrix Reloaded (Widescreen Edition): DVD: Ray Anthony (III),Christine Anu,Andy Arness,Alima ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The Matrix is the chapter one; the beginning and the end is chapter three with The Matrix Revolutions.
No doubt the Matrix trilogy will change how films are made in the future but it should never be forgotten that technical merit does not replace important themes in a story.
While Matrix Reloaded has exemplary action scenes and state-of-the-art CGI effects, the movie is not as cohesive as the original Matrix.
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 The Matrix Reloaded
The Wachowski brothers disappear down the rabbit hole with The Matrix Reloaded.
To simply say the “Matrix Reloaded” is better than the first is too easy.
The Matrix Reloaded is not the end all be all of movies.
www.rottentomatoes.com /m/matrix_reloaded   (1088 words)

  
 Movie Info for The Matrix Reloaded on MSN Movies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
After creating an international sensation with the visually dazzling and intellectually challenging sci-fi blockbuster The Matrix, the Wachowski brothers returned with the first of two projected sequels that pick up where the first film left off.
With The Keymaker in tow, Neo, Trinity, and Morpheus are chased by Merovingian's henchmen: a pair of deadly albino twins (Neil Rayment and Adrian Rayment).
Filmed primarily in Australia and California (the extended chase scene was shot on a stretch of highway build specifically for the production outside of San Francisco), The Matrix Reloaded was produced in tandem with the third film in the series, The Matrix Revolutions.
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