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I came into the movie with lowered expectations, having paid only $6 US for it (and at an evening showing on opening weekend, at that). I'm not certain I enjoyed it well enough to call it a $10 movie.

It sort of reminded me of life in graduate school, with long stretches spent in seminars barely understanding what the people trading monologues are going on about, interspersed with mindless activity appealing to the senses: an alternation of set pieces.

The only action sequence I felt didn't go on too long however was the celebrated freeway scene, which doesn't even feature Neo. I was surprised when I realized that there was virtually no gunplay the way there was in the first movie's lobby scene.

Also it seemed as if there were some characters who didn't really seem to have a reason for being in this film. This gave this sequel a weird sense of incompleteness, because I'm having to think "they'll explain the reason behind the introduction of that Neo-worshipper Zion kid in the last of the three movies."

I'm half hoping that the last movie will have a decent epistemological payoff to justify all the build-up. But to be honest, I think it's as likely that all this philosophizing was being done as a matter of style, not content.

So why is it that the recommendation is that chimp change their genus to Homo, instead of saying that our own tribemates should begin to style themselves Pan sapiens?

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