Yeah, the acting in the first one was so bad.
The premise was good. They used the circular photography technique. Which had already been used. On commercials. By the Gap. That was really the most ground-breaking effect in the movie. So...mediocre to bad acting. Already used special effects. Not game changing.
Interesting premise, though.
After the first movie, it nose dived into shit.
I agree. Matrix 3 ruined Matrix 2, like Last Jedi ruined Force Awakens. The setups are only good if the payoff is there.
There's some strong evidence that much of the Matrix, story wise, was heavily copied from a comic. Thus, when they ran out of material to copy, their true creative process showed in the sequels.
Prequel where Will Smith plays Morpheus, an origin story of how he lost his hair
Watched 2 and 3 recently. Much better than I remember. The fight scenes are bad and there is random bad cg, but there's considerable amount of good and even great
the most infuriating thing about Reloaded was the very ending when Neo blasted the sentinels in the "real world" which suggested there was yet another layer of the matrix which made Neo the One's One. then 3 happened and it shit all over that and it shit on the second film too.
I might agree with that if 2 and 3 had never been made. Their existence makes 1 a worse movie.
