Because it's a lame plot device. It's called a deus ex machina; literally "god from the machine".
It's funny you mention that. Guess what the name of that big spiky machine at the end is? Its name, though not mentioned in the movie, is the Deus Ex Machina.
The answer is that writers-directors did not know enough philosophy to answer those questions. So they didn't.
Actually, it's the exact opposite--they included the answers sprinkled throughout the entire trilogy, but you don't know enough philosophy and religion to see them.
It is a badly done movie where the writers-directors focused more on visual effects than on content.
There was tons of content and great acting.
Oh, wow, there was a siege and a chase scene. Yeah, that means the whole movie was special FX! I could say the same about any of the LOTR movies.
People like you keep saying "there was no plot" when people who claim to "get it" DO see the plot. They see the meanings for what happened and the message the movie was saying.
There were tons of hidden references in the intro graphics alone. Fibonacci sequences, a quick view of the Machine City, that strange symbol that was shown...there is so much going on in the movie. Lots of allegory.
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Did you notice the glowing cross and wings when Neo was being charged full of energy from the Source?
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You're missing it. They did a lot. It's all very subtle. The movie was about the acceptance of death. That's why the first one was about birth, the second about life, and the final one about death.
"The purpose of life is to end." Yet Smith asks Neo why he continues and he says because he chooses to.
Things were deliciously subtle in this one. I'm surprised so many people who loved Reloaded missed what was going on in this one. The Merovingian's club was called Club Hel. Mero was like Satan making a deal. Mobil Ave was an anagram for Limbo Ave.
I could go on and on. It was awesome. Reloaded had pointless action scenes, but the ones in Revolutions were actually life and death and had a reason for being there.
Actually, Movie #3 was about the acceptance of the finality of life, and that death is inevitable. Among other things.
The first movie also was about blowing shit up and fighting in slow-motion. You make it seem like it had some magical leg up on the others in that department.
I'll go even further and say that things were explained. These movies are the most intellectual action movies that have ever been released, and I doubt we'll have the opportunity for such things to be made ever again.
The Oracle said the power of the One reaches to the Source. This is why he can feel anything connected to the Machines, including Smith in the real world. That seemed obvious.
Smith entering Bane is less obvious, but I figure if they can download training programs or connect to a virtual reality, programs can also hijack a brain through those same ports.
As for how Neo actually destroyed Smith, it is implied, not explained...things aren't spelled out for the idiots. You can draw endless conclusions. The Oracle said Smith is Neo's opposite, his negative...1 + (-1) = 0. Or you can say once Neo was destroyed, the equation had to "rebalance" itself again, killing Smith.
Hell, look up what the name Sati means and find out the deeper meanings of that ending.
But people don't look at it that way. The thing I find most interesting is that most reviews say it's better than Reloaded, yet give it a worse rating than Reloaded (RottenTomatoes has Reloaded at something like 76%, compared to the 36% of Revolutions).
People just didn't like that it wasn't a Hollywood ending. I will say that this movie has the most hidden religious and philosophical imagery I've ever seen...it's all way more subtle than Reloaded (who noticed the glowing cross and wings when Neo was killing Smith? Who noticed the Fibonacci sequences in the intro, and the reveal of the Machine City? Who noticed that bizarre "goathead" symbol in the Matrix code when the intro finished?).
the fight scene involving Neo rising up with many Agent Smiths around him--this is one of the (many) scenes in Reloaded where they actually used modified graphics from the video game, and thus the graphics were terrible in some parts of the movie.
No, they didn't. Those weren't modified graphics from the videogame. Who in the hell modded you up? At most, the game creators used very low-res textures that the ESC used, but ESC had almost microscopic laser scanners to create that scene.
Regardless, your comment was strictly designed to encourage flames, because it is otherwise nonsensical. It isn't like Evangelion and Akira [rottentomatoes.com] are only held in critical regard on Slashdot! Why pretend this fame is some kind of cultish Slashdot quirk?
Because you just proved his point. Instead of answering his questions, you flamed him.
Honestly--why is Akira held in such high regard? Most of the popular anime I've seen is so incredibly goofy, trite, and cheesy, that I can't help but think it's another case of groupthink.
The very day iTunes for Windows came out, I read articles about people from Apple saying they ran it with no profit and that it drove iPod sales. People linked to it in the last article!
Why do people bitch and complain that the Matrix was too much gobbledygook (translation: they didn't understand, and hate movies that challenge them to think about it anywhere beyond the concession stand on their way out), then act like LotR is this untouchable masterpiece?
Because the Matrix sequels sucked ass. Terrible acting, terrible dialogue, boring pointless scenes (here's the part where you say, "B-b-but the rave scene was supposed to represent humans being humans!"), and an anti-climatic ending that invalidates the entire trilogy: people are still hooked up to the Matrix and we don't know if they're told about their choice. We don't know why the machines didn't just make this treaty before. We don't even know what the Matrix is or why it still exists--we know there is more to the power plant theory because the Architect said they could survive without it.
But, no, we're left with an ending in which the machines hold all the cards. Then fanboys like you come along and pretend it's some sort of heady film just because it discusses standard philosophy textbooks and is one big sci-fi Jesus Christ allegory (seeing the cross on Neo's chest made me laugh).
Meanwhile, Lord of the Rings has no allegory. It was never intended to. It has no symbolic meaning, no hidden agenda nothing. IT'S JUST A GREAT STORY. Do you have something against great stories of good and evil? Or does everything you watch have to have guns and leather and kungfu interspersed with a Frenchy guy babbling on about "causality?"
You can justify the Matrix sequels all you want with their symbolism and religious references, but that doesn't make the storyline suck any less ass.
Because it's the real world. The movie isn't about our world being the Matrix, it's about a possible future where our world is destroyed and a virtual world is created in its place.
The world that Zion exists in is supposed to be our fictional future.
Neo stopped the sentinels because he was able to tap into the Source.
Hello? I know that. I saw Reloaded (and now Revolutions) like you did.
I want to know HOW. Otherewise, it's just a convenient deus ex machina.
Smith enter's Bane because when Neo entered Smith at the end of the first movie he altered Smith so that Smith was like Neo.
Uh, how does that allow the executable code of a program to enter a human brain?
Zion is the hope for humanity to escape the Matrix. It takes humans who are aware that the Matrix isn't real to help the others out. Without Zion, mankind has no hope of leaving the Matrix.
No, Zion is just the falling point--likely created by the machines in the first place--to have a city for people who reject the Matrix and make them think they're in control.
Err, end of the movie where the Oracle gets a garauntee that all the humans will be set free. did you miss that part?
Oh, wow! A line of dialogue which suddenly freed everyone! I guess when the Architect made his little promise, you magically saw images of everyone in the Matrix being freed and the rebuilding of the world.
I, on the other hand, just saw a copout. "You have my word that I will take a complete reversal and stop abusing humans for no reason. I'll let our power supply leave for no reason. Just because the One asked me to."
I know that many people profess not to understand the Matrix, especially after Reloaded, but come on - you don't need a PHd in philosophy to follow a movie plot
I'm sure I understand the plotline and symbolism of all three movies even more than you do.
Seeing as how it was the major bomb dropped in Reloaded at the last minute along with the Architect scene, everyone thought this.
My mistake, you were talking about the ending in the first Matrix.
Yes, everyone wanted, heaven forbid, the people of the Matrix to be freed, because those people represented US. We don't care about Zion and never did. That wasn't what the first movie was about.
I think you got hooked on the last scene in the first movie and can't se past it-- as if the next 2 movies were somehow supposed to be focused around it.
Seeing as how it was the major bomb dropped in Reloaded at the last minute along with the Architect scene, everyone thought this.
The plot evolves to become what it is.. More depth is unravelled as you go.
Typical vague bullshit. Look, the story is just not interesting and unfulfilling. You can justify that all you want but it doesn't change the way it is. What depth is unravelled? There are no twists or answers.
Doesn't it bother you that we still don't know the answer to the question, "What is the Matrix?" Really, what is it? A power plant? A peer-to-peer computing environment? We'll never know.
Neo stops the sentinels because he was enlightened by the process of becoming the One.
We know he does that. Reloaded showed us that at the end. What we want is WHY and HOW. It contradicts the rules of its own story universe.
Imagine if suddenly, for no reason, Frodo was able to fly (barring that it's not Tolkien's style). And it was just explained away as "very Eastern symbolism."
He sees the Matrix as what it is -- an input/output stream communicating with the senses, and sees it logically instead of allowing his senses to interpret it. It's very Eastern - the idea that the world is not what you simply perceive.
That's the Matrix, which has nothing to do with the real world...or does it? That's the shitty part, we'll never know. We got ripped off.
Smith enters Bane by essentially hacking his brain.
We were told sentient programs could only enter plugged-in people, which makes sense, as though they're taking over that "node" of the Matrix. However, Smith carries over directly into the real world as a conscious human being. How in the hell does executable artificial intelligence code bury itself into a random human brain of nerve cells? It's stupid.
Zion is the focus because its the free world; everything else is 'controlled', whether virtual or real.
You're giving me reasons and whys. We all know why. It doesn't change the fact that it's poor storytelling.
Trinity isn't human when she says that dying was fine, but she should have been telling Neo how good it was instead of apologizing for dying, and thanks for the second chance to be real?
Huh? I don't understand your sentence at all.
I dunno, I thought that scene was a LOT more touching and a lot less fake than EITHER of the first two movies Trinity-saves-Neo or Neo-saves-Trinity scenes.
I was saying that Neo shouldn't have been able to bring Trinity back in Reloaded. It would have at least added to some delicious character tension. Have Neo head straight to the Machine City all by himself, a man driven by loss with nothing to believe in but himself.
I'm sorry but I had no trouble understanding all the parts you say have no explaination: *Neo stopped the sentinels because, apparently, his powers are not limited to just the matrix, but are actually in the real world too.
I understood it just fine. But the movie never explained HOW it happens. That makes it just a convenient deus ex machina (pun intended).
Saying "the One's powers extend to the source and the real world" doesn't actually explain anything. Look, Oracle, we KNOW that. It's obvious. But tell us why and how? Why didn't he have the power before? What is Smith, really?
Smith entered Bane by somehow hijacking the hardline or something I guess, I just kind of look at it as he found a way to the subway station (what the hell was with making the portal between worlds a subway station anyway?) and then entered the real world.
Hijacking the hardline? So you find it completely plausible for a virtual AI program to somehow "download" itself into a random human brain? I know people mention the training programs, but we're talking about a fully self-aware AI being here. How does its executable code transfer to a human brain?
As for the subway station, notice the train says "Loop" on it--it's the same subway train from the first movie.
*The people of the matrix are freed. The Architect said the machines agreed to free all humans who wish to be freed now that the humans and machines are going to coexist peacefully. This was kind of what the entire movie was about.
Look, who's holding the cards here? The machines. They have all the power. We're back to where we started, except that we have the word of some random AI we know nothing about.
I understand that many will enjoy the lesser amount of monologues in this film, but after raising so many questions in Reloaded--is Neo a program? Is the One designed? Who is the Architect? What was the point of Persephone's kiss?--and not having them answered, it's completely unfulfilling.
That's why the reviews are so bad. It doesn't resolve anything.
The Wachowskis had a general idea for a serial, episodic adventure, and they originally concieved it for comics, but decided to write one as a movie, setting up the world. They said they put every action movie idea they had into it.
They didn't have finished scripts for sequels. It's been stated they just had some ideas bouncing in their heads. They may have had the idea to write to other movies, but then why was the original plan to film a prequel then a sequel? That's right, because they really DIDN'T have this thing fleshed out. They decided to let the Animatrix take care of prequel matters and fill things out for two sequels after all (probably Joel Silver's idea).
I think it's obvious when watching the sequels that it really had the "we made this up just to further the Matrix universe for another movie" feel to it.
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Because it's a lame plot device. It's called a deus ex machina; literally "god from the machine".
It's funny you mention that. Guess what the name of that big spiky machine at the end is? Its name, though not mentioned in the movie, is the Deus Ex Machina.
The answer is that writers-directors did not know enough philosophy to answer those questions. So they didn't.
Actually, it's the exact opposite--they included the answers sprinkled throughout the entire trilogy, but you don't know enough philosophy and religion to see them.
It is a badly done movie where the writers-directors focused more on visual effects than on content.
There was tons of content and great acting.
Oh, wow, there was a siege and a chase scene. Yeah, that means the whole movie was special FX! I could say the same about any of the LOTR movies.
They didn't surrender. They were threatened by Smith as well.
The license plate of Smith's car in Reloaded is a Bible reference which mentions his name. Smith is the main villain of the movies.
Presumably, machines can't lie (they haven't in any of the movies), so they keep their word.
Don't you get it?
People like you keep saying "there was no plot" when people who claim to "get it" DO see the plot. They see the meanings for what happened and the message the movie was saying.
There were tons of hidden references in the intro graphics alone. Fibonacci sequences, a quick view of the Machine City, that strange symbol that was shown...there is so much going on in the movie. Lots of allegory.
Did you notice the glowing cross and wings when Neo was being charged full of energy from the Source?
You're missing it. They did a lot. It's all very subtle. The movie was about the acceptance of death. That's why the first one was about birth, the second about life, and the final one about death.
"The purpose of life is to end." Yet Smith asks Neo why he continues and he says because he chooses to.
Things were deliciously subtle in this one. I'm surprised so many people who loved Reloaded missed what was going on in this one. The Merovingian's club was called Club Hel. Mero was like Satan making a deal. Mobil Ave was an anagram for Limbo Ave.
I could go on and on. It was awesome. Reloaded had pointless action scenes, but the ones in Revolutions were actually life and death and had a reason for being there.
Actually, Movie #3 was about the acceptance of the finality of life, and that death is inevitable. Among other things.
The first movie also was about blowing shit up and fighting in slow-motion. You make it seem like it had some magical leg up on the others in that department.
You nailed it.
I'll go even further and say that things were explained. These movies are the most intellectual action movies that have ever been released, and I doubt we'll have the opportunity for such things to be made ever again.
The Oracle said the power of the One reaches to the Source. This is why he can feel anything connected to the Machines, including Smith in the real world. That seemed obvious.
Smith entering Bane is less obvious, but I figure if they can download training programs or connect to a virtual reality, programs can also hijack a brain through those same ports.
As for how Neo actually destroyed Smith, it is implied, not explained...things aren't spelled out for the idiots. You can draw endless conclusions. The Oracle said Smith is Neo's opposite, his negative...1 + (-1) = 0. Or you can say once Neo was destroyed, the equation had to "rebalance" itself again, killing Smith.
Hell, look up what the name Sati means and find out the deeper meanings of that ending.
But people don't look at it that way. The thing I find most interesting is that most reviews say it's better than Reloaded, yet give it a worse rating than Reloaded (RottenTomatoes has Reloaded at something like 76%, compared to the 36% of Revolutions).
People just didn't like that it wasn't a Hollywood ending. I will say that this movie has the most hidden religious and philosophical imagery I've ever seen...it's all way more subtle than Reloaded (who noticed the glowing cross and wings when Neo was killing Smith? Who noticed the Fibonacci sequences in the intro, and the reveal of the Machine City? Who noticed that bizarre "goathead" symbol in the Matrix code when the intro finished?).
Waichovski? Don't be a moron.
the fight scene involving Neo rising up with many Agent Smiths around him--this is one of the (many) scenes in Reloaded where they actually used modified graphics from the video game, and thus the graphics were terrible in some parts of the movie.
No, they didn't. Those weren't modified graphics from the videogame. Who in the hell modded you up? At most, the game creators used very low-res textures that the ESC used, but ESC had almost microscopic laser scanners to create that scene.
Troll a little better next time.
Regardless, your comment was strictly designed to encourage flames, because it is otherwise nonsensical. It isn't like Evangelion and Akira [rottentomatoes.com] are only held in critical regard on Slashdot! Why pretend this fame is some kind of cultish Slashdot quirk?
Because you just proved his point. Instead of answering his questions, you flamed him.
Honestly--why is Akira held in such high regard? Most of the popular anime I've seen is so incredibly goofy, trite, and cheesy, that I can't help but think it's another case of groupthink.
Uh, this is old news. It's not even news.
The very day iTunes for Windows came out, I read articles about people from Apple saying they ran it with no profit and that it drove iPod sales. People linked to it in the last article!
Thanks, Slashdot, for being FAR BEHIND as usual.
Why do people bitch and complain that the Matrix was too much gobbledygook (translation: they didn't understand, and hate movies that challenge them to think about it anywhere beyond the concession stand on their way out), then act like LotR is this untouchable masterpiece?
Because the Matrix sequels sucked ass. Terrible acting, terrible dialogue, boring pointless scenes (here's the part where you say, "B-b-but the rave scene was supposed to represent humans being humans!"), and an anti-climatic ending that invalidates the entire trilogy: people are still hooked up to the Matrix and we don't know if they're told about their choice. We don't know why the machines didn't just make this treaty before. We don't even know what the Matrix is or why it still exists--we know there is more to the power plant theory because the Architect said they could survive without it.
But, no, we're left with an ending in which the machines hold all the cards. Then fanboys like you come along and pretend it's some sort of heady film just because it discusses standard philosophy textbooks and is one big sci-fi Jesus Christ allegory (seeing the cross on Neo's chest made me laugh).
Meanwhile, Lord of the Rings has no allegory. It was never intended to. It has no symbolic meaning, no hidden agenda nothing. IT'S JUST A GREAT STORY. Do you have something against great stories of good and evil? Or does everything you watch have to have guns and leather and kungfu interspersed with a Frenchy guy babbling on about "causality?"
You can justify the Matrix sequels all you want with their symbolism and religious references, but that doesn't make the storyline suck any less ass.
Because it's the real world. The movie isn't about our world being the Matrix, it's about a possible future where our world is destroyed and a virtual world is created in its place.
The world that Zion exists in is supposed to be our fictional future.
Sparkle? Couldn't they come up with a better name? The blatant rip-off of not only ideas, but names, is insane.
Yeah, kind of like KIllustrator, or KWord, or any "start menu" or "taskbar" in a Linux desktop environment, or...
Neo stopped the sentinels because he was able to tap into the Source.
Hello? I know that. I saw Reloaded (and now Revolutions) like you did.
I want to know HOW. Otherewise, it's just a convenient deus ex machina.
Smith enter's Bane because when Neo entered Smith at the end of the first movie he altered Smith so that Smith was like Neo.
Uh, how does that allow the executable code of a program to enter a human brain?
Zion is the hope for humanity to escape the Matrix. It takes humans who are aware that the Matrix isn't real to help the others out. Without Zion, mankind has no hope of leaving the Matrix.
No, Zion is just the falling point--likely created by the machines in the first place--to have a city for people who reject the Matrix and make them think they're in control.
Err, end of the movie where the Oracle gets a garauntee that all the humans will be set free. did you miss that part?
Oh, wow! A line of dialogue which suddenly freed everyone! I guess when the Architect made his little promise, you magically saw images of everyone in the Matrix being freed and the rebuilding of the world.
I, on the other hand, just saw a copout. "You have my word that I will take a complete reversal and stop abusing humans for no reason. I'll let our power supply leave for no reason. Just because the One asked me to."
I know that many people profess not to understand the Matrix, especially after Reloaded, but come on - you don't need a PHd in philosophy to follow a movie plot
I'm sure I understand the plotline and symbolism of all three movies even more than you do.
It doesn't make the third one any less idiotic.
They never, ever claimed that. There was talk of the sequels even during the filming of the first one.
That was added in after Empire Strikes Back, dumbass.
As usual, Matrix fans defend aspects of the movies using the reasons behind them.
That has absolutely no bearing on whether it's actually INTERESTING or not.
Seeing as how it was the major bomb dropped in Reloaded at the last minute along with the Architect scene, everyone thought this.
My mistake, you were talking about the ending in the first Matrix.
Yes, everyone wanted, heaven forbid, the people of the Matrix to be freed, because those people represented US. We don't care about Zion and never did. That wasn't what the first movie was about.
What are you, a blinded fanboy?
I think you got hooked on the last scene in the first movie and can't se past it-- as if the next 2 movies were somehow supposed to be focused around it.
Seeing as how it was the major bomb dropped in Reloaded at the last minute along with the Architect scene, everyone thought this.
The plot evolves to become what it is.. More depth is unravelled as you go.
Typical vague bullshit. Look, the story is just not interesting and unfulfilling. You can justify that all you want but it doesn't change the way it is. What depth is unravelled? There are no twists or answers.
Doesn't it bother you that we still don't know the answer to the question, "What is the Matrix?" Really, what is it? A power plant? A peer-to-peer computing environment? We'll never know.
Neo stops the sentinels because he was enlightened by the process of becoming the One.
We know he does that. Reloaded showed us that at the end. What we want is WHY and HOW. It contradicts the rules of its own story universe.
Imagine if suddenly, for no reason, Frodo was able to fly (barring that it's not Tolkien's style). And it was just explained away as "very Eastern symbolism."
He sees the Matrix as what it is -- an input/output stream communicating with the senses, and sees it logically instead of allowing his senses to interpret it. It's very Eastern - the idea that the world is not what you simply perceive.
That's the Matrix, which has nothing to do with the real world...or does it? That's the shitty part, we'll never know. We got ripped off.
Smith enters Bane by essentially hacking his brain.
We were told sentient programs could only enter plugged-in people, which makes sense, as though they're taking over that "node" of the Matrix. However, Smith carries over directly into the real world as a conscious human being. How in the hell does executable artificial intelligence code bury itself into a random human brain of nerve cells? It's stupid.
Zion is the focus because its the free world; everything else is 'controlled', whether virtual or real.
You're giving me reasons and whys. We all know why. It doesn't change the fact that it's poor storytelling.
Trinity isn't human when she says that dying was fine, but she should have been telling Neo how good it was instead of apologizing for dying, and thanks for the second chance to be real?
Huh? I don't understand your sentence at all.
I dunno, I thought that scene was a LOT more touching and a lot less fake than EITHER of the first two movies Trinity-saves-Neo or Neo-saves-Trinity scenes.
I was saying that Neo shouldn't have been able to bring Trinity back in Reloaded. It would have at least added to some delicious character tension. Have Neo head straight to the Machine City all by himself, a man driven by loss with nothing to believe in but himself.
Nope. Heaven forbid we have good storytelling.
I'm sorry but I had no trouble understanding all the parts you say have no explaination: *Neo stopped the sentinels because, apparently, his powers are not limited to just the matrix, but are actually in the real world too.
I understood it just fine. But the movie never explained HOW it happens. That makes it just a convenient deus ex machina (pun intended).
Saying "the One's powers extend to the source and the real world" doesn't actually explain anything. Look, Oracle, we KNOW that. It's obvious. But tell us why and how? Why didn't he have the power before? What is Smith, really?
Smith entered Bane by somehow hijacking the hardline or something I guess, I just kind of look at it as he found a way to the subway station (what the hell was with making the portal between worlds a subway station anyway?) and then entered the real world.
Hijacking the hardline? So you find it completely plausible for a virtual AI program to somehow "download" itself into a random human brain? I know people mention the training programs, but we're talking about a fully self-aware AI being here. How does its executable code transfer to a human brain?
As for the subway station, notice the train says "Loop" on it--it's the same subway train from the first movie.
*The people of the matrix are freed. The Architect said the machines agreed to free all humans who wish to be freed now that the humans and machines are going to coexist peacefully. This was kind of what the entire movie was about.
Look, who's holding the cards here? The machines. They have all the power. We're back to where we started, except that we have the word of some random AI we know nothing about.
I understand that many will enjoy the lesser amount of monologues in this film, but after raising so many questions in Reloaded--is Neo a program? Is the One designed? Who is the Architect? What was the point of Persephone's kiss?--and not having them answered, it's completely unfulfilling.
That's why the reviews are so bad. It doesn't resolve anything.
There was an interview linked on MatrixFans.net with the actor who plays Rama Kandra.
In it, he says when he went to the premiere of Matrix Revolutions, he asked Andy Wachowski if he was happy with the film.
Andy said he was just glad it was over, and even told the actor "not to get his hopes up."
Wow.
The story wasn't designed to be a trilogy.
The Wachowskis had a general idea for a serial, episodic adventure, and they originally concieved it for comics, but decided to write one as a movie, setting up the world. They said they put every action movie idea they had into it.
They didn't have finished scripts for sequels. It's been stated they just had some ideas bouncing in their heads. They may have had the idea to write to other movies, but then why was the original plan to film a prequel then a sequel? That's right, because they really DIDN'T have this thing fleshed out. They decided to let the Animatrix take care of prequel matters and fill things out for two sequels after all (probably Joel Silver's idea).
I think it's obvious when watching the sequels that it really had the "we made this up just to further the Matrix universe for another movie" feel to it.
Harry at Aint-it-cool news has a RAVE review, if you can stand to read the huge fonts.