The Matrix Reloaded

When I saw The Matrix in 1999, I was 47 years old and I viewed the film as a brilliantly executed metaphor for civilized life. Fifteen years later I'm watching The Matrix Reloaded on television and it seems like a silly piece of clever entertainment. While most of the fight and effects scenes are repetitive and old hat, the section of the car chase scene where one of the demonic Twins winds up in the backseat with Morpheus, Trinity and the Keymaker is quite humorous. After spending years living in a little cell as a prisoner of the Merovingian, the anxiety-ridden Keymaker must have had the time of his life riding on the back of Trinity's motorcycle going down the Freeway at bullet train speed against traffic.