Movie: The Matrix Revolutions (2003)
Matrix 3

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The Matrix Revolutions (Matrix 3)

Starring: Keanu Reeves , Laurence Fishburne , et al.
Director: Andy Wachowski , Larry Wachowski

Despite the inevitable law of diminishing returns, The Matrix Revolutions is quite satisfying as an adrenalized action epic, marking yet another milestone in the exponential evolution of computer-generated special effects. That may not be enough to satisfy hardcore Matrix fans who turned the Wachowski Brothers' hacker mythology into a quasi-religious pop-cultural phenomenon, but there's no denying that the trilogy goes out with a cosmic bang instead of the whimper that many expected. Picking up precisely where The Matrix Reloaded left off, this 130-minute finale finds Neo (Keanu Reeves) at a virtual junction, defending the besieged human enclave of Zion by confronting the attacking machines on their home turf, while humans combat swarms of tentacled mechanical sentinels as Zion's fate lies in the balance. It all amounts to a blaze of CGI glory, devoid of all but the shallowest emotions, and so full of metaphysical hokum that the trilogy's detractors can gloat with I-told-you-so sarcasm. And yet, Revolutions still succeeds as a slick, exciting hybrid of cinema and video game, operating by its own internal logic with enough forward momentum to make the whole trilogy seem like a thrilling, magnificent dream. -- Jeff Shannon

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I think whoever wrote the review before this is on the right track about Neo's powers outside the matrix. The idea of another ship's EMP is stupid, and a matrix within a matrix is just going to get boring and repetitive. If there's one thing I've learned form watching Reloaded, its that the Wachowski bros. are definitely fans of anime, and theory of Neo evolving to some new level (most likely from his coming face-to-face with the architect) is very much in the plot style of anime. Having been in the central "command room" of the matrix, it is possible that his brain may now be in tune with the signals that control the sentinels and other machines.
There's another factor in play here. Many of the computer entities (Merovingian, Architect, etc.) keep going on about causality, and how they basically know everything that will ever happen because it's all cause-and-effect. I've studied causality in college, and this is where Smith is going to become a key factor in how all of this will play out. As an out-of-control rogue program, he is the only factor the Architect and his "minions" never took into account (funny how he called the humans a virus only to become one himself). Whether it will ultimately be for good or ill I do not know, but I have a strong feeling that whetever happens next is going to hinge upon the actions of Smith.

I have seen Reloded manytimes and have my own theories. I dont think they are living inj a chain matrix, as its a common imagination, and would ruin the plot. We have to understand that machines dont have a sensory system like us, that even their vision is defined in a machine language. Thus the mind of the machine itself may be somehow connected to the matrix, which means when Neos physical form is sensored, its decoded to his residual self image within the mind of the machine, resulting in the anamoly. The sight of Neo and his actions in real world is decoded into the machine brain, and is converted into his residual self image inside the Sentinnels brain, and since Neos residual self image is an anamoly, it can crash the sentinnels, even if it means that Neo lacks any direct power in the real world? get it?
Thats one Theory. the other is, the machines do not want to kill the anamoly, since the failure to get him into the source will result in a cataclysmic crash killing everyone plugged into the matrix. Eventhough the archetech didnt panic when neo went through the other door, the machines may not be prepared to take steps in the event all crops died. The test subjects died in the first two matrixes, but I believe that it was at a smaller scale and didnt involve billions of crops. If humans are extinct , machines may not have asn alternative energy source, and because of this, the higher order machines probably triggered some kind of a suicidal emp in those squiddys to deactivate them before they destroyed Neo, in which case it was a mere coincidence. Enter the Matrix game has revealed the reason why Neo is in a coma. His mind is now seperated form the body and is in the source. The Squiddys somehow found a way to get his mind seperated, and be loaded into the source. So is Smith, as we know he fell into a similar coma. Thats why Neo will confront smith in the source in revolutions, in my opinion.

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After watching the Matrix Reloaded three times (once at Imax-you have got to experiance that) i was under the impression that the real world (zion) was not a differant matrix but in fact all part of the same matrix as the one the people still 'in the matrix' are in. The architect said people needed choice whether they knew it or not, their minds needed choice or they would not accept the matrix. The matrix and zion are the two choices that humans have, live in the matrix or live in zion - they are the samething but the human mind is tricked into thinking it has a choice. This is also why neo could use his powers in zion, because he had realised that zion was part of the matrix and so was governed by the same rules as the matrix. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title

A theory that has not been told , October 15, 2003