not all that bogus, dude
Like every other person in the whole entire world, I saw the second Matrix movie this weekend. I liked it. I like it now -- when I'm discussing it with various people and reading articles about it -- even more than I actually did when I was watching it. Proof positive that I am a gigantic dork: I couldn't stop thinking about philosophy, specifically Locke, Kant, Descartes, Hume and Foucault, during the entire thing. One character uses the word "causality" as though that's a normal thing to do.

It would have been a better movie without all the BORING FIGHTING, and without Keanu generally being the worst actor in the entire universe, eternally waiting to "excellent!" himself out of his horrendously flat affectation. But even though the movie didn't take philosophical ideas to new heights or anything, it's certainly made me think more about the way it all hooks together. Sometimes being unsubtle with that stuff is OK, and an action movie with a million different allegorical levels is allowed to be unsubtle. I wish it would have gone a step further, that the theological and philosophical (others would probably add scientific, technological, etc.) aspects could have really been explored rather than just throwing them out haphazardly, like, "oh wait, he's the Chosen one? there's a character named Persephone? and one named Locke? hey, empiricism, what's that all about, again? did I ever finish 'Critique of Pure Reason'? did he just rip a lamppost out of the ground?" but I'll take it.