Yes definitely Smith is a virus as evidenced by his replicating ability. Whats interesting is that it is not limited to just the Matrix, or at least what we know of as the Matrix.
As for protecting the Keymaster, I thought he was their hostage. Why would he need to be protected from Neo, Morpheus and Trinity by the Merovingians?
I believe the Oracle is something different, quote the Architect:
"Thus the answer was stumbled upon by another, an intuitive program, initially created to investigate certain aspects of the human psyche. If I am the father of the Matrix, she would undoubtedly be its mother."
Interesting sidebar:
When the Architect says:
"But we already know what you're going to do, don't we? Already I can see the chain reaction; the chemical precursors that signal the onset of an motion, designed specifically to overwhelm logic and reason, an emotion that is already blinding you from the simple and obvious truth: she is going to die and there is nothing you can do to stop it."
I find it interesting/funny that he says "chemical precursors."
The plot was almost non-existant and I didn't really leave the movie knowing anything particularly new about the "Matrix" and the position of the human race was not particularly different at the end than the beginning...
Nothing new? Hmmm, there have been 6 previous Ones and Zion has been destroyed 6 times. The function of the One is to reset the Matrix and then pick (don't remember the numbers) some men and women to populate Zion and start over again. There are rogue programs in the Matrix, one of which is the Oracle.
As far as the position of the human race, at the end of the first movie they were not in any danger which they are now since Neo refused to reset the Matrix. The architect said that they (the machines) were prepared to have an existance that didn't rely on the humans for power even though it wasn't optimal they were prepared for that.
Don't forget this is the 2nd movie in a trilogy, movies like this usually don't advance much and save it for the last movie.
I've heard lots of reviews like yours from lots of people and the problem seems to be that people don't realize that the reason that the first was good in comparison to the second is that most people had never seen a movie like that before. The action style was new, the opening was quite impressive, Neo coming out of the pod and the human race being slave labor for machines.
I guess the problem is that people expect too much, I enjoyed the movie very much but I didn't think it was going to surpass the first because of that "newness" the first one had.
Oh yeah as far as the plot, it was set in the first movie. They are trying to escape from the Matrix, this movie assumed that you saw the first one and did not re-introduce ideas from the first.
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Yes definitely Smith is a virus as evidenced by his replicating ability. Whats interesting is that it is not limited to just the Matrix, or at least what we know of as the Matrix.
As for protecting the Keymaster, I thought he was their hostage. Why would he need to be protected from Neo, Morpheus and Trinity by the Merovingians?
I believe the Oracle is something different, quote the Architect:
"Thus the answer was stumbled upon by another, an intuitive program, initially created to investigate certain aspects of the human psyche. If I am the father of the Matrix, she would undoubtedly be its mother."
Interesting sidebar:
When the Architect says:
"But we already know what you're going to do, don't we? Already I can see the chain reaction; the chemical precursors that signal the onset of an motion, designed specifically to overwhelm logic and reason, an emotion that is already blinding you from the simple and obvious truth: she is going to die and there is nothing you can do to stop it."
I find it interesting/funny that he says "chemical precursors."
The plot was almost non-existant and I didn't really leave the movie knowing anything particularly new about the "Matrix" and the position of the human race was not particularly different at the end than the beginning...
Nothing new? Hmmm, there have been 6 previous Ones and Zion has been destroyed 6 times. The function of the One is to reset the Matrix and then pick (don't remember the numbers) some men and women to populate Zion and start over again. There are rogue programs in the Matrix, one of which is the Oracle.
As far as the position of the human race, at the end of the first movie they were not in any danger which they are now since Neo refused to reset the Matrix. The architect said that they (the machines) were prepared to have an existance that didn't rely on the humans for power even though it wasn't optimal they were prepared for that.
Don't forget this is the 2nd movie in a trilogy, movies like this usually don't advance much and save it for the last movie.
I've heard lots of reviews like yours from lots of people and the problem seems to be that people don't realize that the reason that the first was good in comparison to the second is that most people had never seen a movie like that before. The action style was new, the opening was quite impressive, Neo coming out of the pod and the human race being slave labor for machines.
I guess the problem is that people expect too much, I enjoyed the movie very much but I didn't think it was going to surpass the first because of that "newness" the first one had.
Oh yeah as far as the plot, it was set in the first movie. They are trying to escape from the Matrix, this movie assumed that you saw the first one and did not re-introduce ideas from the first.
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