: Just saw Reloaded. Dearie me. So full of 'profundities'. The action's grand,
: but the dialogue is rubbish, even worse than the first one. Too bad the W.
: brothers had to further sacrifice credibility by trying to make the
: philosophy hip-sounding. All this stuff about 'choice', but who cares,
: when the 'believing' Morpheus is rabbiting on about 'fate'?
I felt the content was pretty admirable for a mainstream flick, but they managed to shoot themselves in the foot a little by overdoing the philosophical bent in a purely theoretical context. I can understand their desire to make sure that the audience understood an important aspect of the story was the nature and origin of choice, but they could have expressed that more carefully than a handful of contextless speeches from archetypes.
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