I took a break yesterday and went to see Mattrix II. Well worth it! Very thin plot, but who cares? The special effects are incredible. Agent Smith is back as a super virus and can duplicate himself. Watching countless Agent Smiths fight Neo was mind boggling and worth the price of admission for that scene alone.

Roger Zelazny once wrote an awesome fight scene about a battle between two time travelers. I believe this was in Creatures of Light and Darkness. Zelazny called this a fugue as the time travelers could summon future versions of themselves to fight against one another in battle of tens, then hundreds, then thousands. I always thought this was a cool concept despite the chronological paradoxes. Seeing several Agent Smiths start fighting Neo, then summing scores more as needed, was awesome and made me wonder if the writers had read Zelazny.

I am only commenting on this one scene as the trailers already gave it away and I do not want to be a spoiler. But there are special effects scenes galore, many of which make the first movie look primitive. If you liked the first movie, you will love the second one.

Warnings: The movie is rated R for violence. It has more adrenaline moments than any other movie that I’ve seen in quite some time. So I wouldn't suggest taking youngsters to it – it is rated R for a reason. Also, if you are the impatient sort, you may want to wait six months to see it. This is really half of a movie. It just stops half-way through and the story continues in Matrix III, out in November.