'The Matrix Reloaded' Hits Theaters

By Bob Mondello

Published May 15, 2003 at 12:00 AM EDT

The Matrix Reloaded, the long-anticipated sequel to the Matrix, arrives on movie screens Thursday. Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss and Laurence Fishburne reprise their roles as leaders of a human rebellion in a machine-ruled dystopia. Critic Bob Mondello reviews the film.

Bob Mondello

Bob Mondello, who jokes that he was a jinx at the beginning of his critical career — hired to write for every small paper that ever folded in Washington, just as it was about to collapse — saw that jinx broken in 1984 when he came to NPR.

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