Movie Reviews...

22:52.02 - Sunday 13th July 2003   (Link to This Entry)

I've been watching a few dodgy SVCD downloads at a friends place recently, seeing as I don't currently have the cashola to actually go to the flicks myself:

The Matrix: Reloaded
When I origiinally saw the trailer for this film I thought it looked a bit dodgy, and it turns out I was right. The fights just don't have the same brutality that they did in the first film. OK, so they're in the Matrix and so things like the Laws of Physics are probably only guidelines, but too much of the fights are made of up the actors flying around on strings. Fights between the two are what it's all about baby, yeah! Oh, and Choice, apparently.

The computer graphics haven't really improved fron the original, either. In that fight scene, there are several shots of an obviously fake Neo floating all over the shop. To make matters worse, at the end of that fight, the Smiths watch Neo take off and most of them go through the same movements, making the whole scene so darned tacky-looking it's embarrassing.

Someone once described this movie as a 'holding pattern'. I'm tempted to agree. Some groovy car chases though.

Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
Another one that had some big shoes to fill, but which didn't do too badly. Arnie returns as a (somewhat older, haha) 'good' Terminator and has to face down a much more advanced female robot. Remember how the T1000 (Robert Patrick) couldn't form complex machinery or weapons? Well this one can.

Given that you know Arnie is gonna win, you'd expect this to be an epic battle, right? Wrong! The Best. Car. Chase. Evar. occurs really early on but the whole movie just kinda trudges after that. As for plot holes - don't get me started! I'd list 'em but that would be spoiling it for you.

But at least this sets the scene for Terminator 4, and I really hope there is one. Arnie probably wouldn't be required for this one as it would mostly be about the war between humans and the machines, and so there'd be no sending anyone back. Shit, they could probably render it all anyway.

Another filler, not a brilliant movie in it's own right. Spot the Robocop-style 'hard reset' routine.

Mortal Kombat 2: Annihilation
Only kidding - it started on Channel 5 a while ago and I managed to watch about five minutes before getting bored and going off to do something else. Only I couldn't find anything else to do. Meh.