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Bit surprised people had high expectations for the new Matrix film.
Did anyone have high expectations? I'm still hoping for enjoyable and not awful. Not exactly high. Last year's Bill and Ted delivered on that front.
Also I think Crouching Tiger was maybe more to blame for the wire work overload.
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Crouching Tiger
Good point but my biggest issue with Matrix was it seemed to open the doors for normal actors doing high level physical action scenes. Although not trained martial artists Yeoh and Zhang have a long history of doing HK cinema fight choreography. I'm sure Matrix wasn't the only culprit but it's the one that stood out for me. The John Woo influence slightly before was also annoying but less unconvincing.
jono84
Bit surprised people had high expectations for the new Matrix film. The first one was great on first view but hasn't held up well, the sequels were total shite. Maybe i'm just slightly jaded as they spawned all the terrible physical actor wire work action sequences that plagued Hollywood until Bourne came along and nutted them all in the face. Also disagree with Keanu being generally solid. Like him, Love the first JW and Speed is still top 3 cinema trips for me but about 70% of his work is crap IMO.