Posted by jkm822 at alb-24-195-238-32.nycap.rr.com on June 03, 2003 at 22:40:42:
In Reply to: the animatrix posted by smells like right guard on June 03, 2003 at 22:37:19:
: fills in a lot of holes.
: that and seeing the first one over again.
I'm not taking about plot holes, I'm talking about the fact that it didn't actually go anywhere. The bad guys are still NEAR, but not quite AT, the throats of the good guys. The protagonist gained a little more control of the powers he's supposed to have. And we introduced some new and interesting characters. Add in some fight and chase scenes, and that's the whole movie.
I'm not saying it sucked, I'm just saying as far as the trilogy goes, it was simply the middle child. It was Empire. It was a way of getting from the end of the first one to the beginning of the third one, without actually accomplishing all that much. It's just obvious that all the truly big things are coming in the next one; Reloaded was designed to make us want the 3rd one.