The moment I saw the indian couple talking about love, I knew that the machines would not all be destroyed. I thought, "oh crap, does this mean we have to live with machines now?" Personally, I wish Neo would've just leveled everything and everyone inside the matrix.
Smith fulfilling his purpose? Eh, I don't like that explanation only because there were all these exile programs, seemingly with no purpose, just "kicking it" in reloaded. The part where Smith talks about what he's suppose to say and do, and then backing away from Neo in fear, then killing Neo anyways.... well I don't get it.
Neo can do all this wonderful stuff in the real world. Ok, so he's psychic or somehow has a psychic link with the matrix. Seems out of place to me. The psychic that has to be blind to see, seems like something out of a magic fantasy movie. Neo would be a pretty sweet jedi though... well if all he had to fight were machines.
Smith has run amuck in the matrix and is now taking over all programs and human minds. The only reason the matrix even has to run a simulation of the 20th century is because that's the world the human mind would accept. The machines just want to keep the humans under control, pacified, so that they can have energy. Now the machines don't even have to worry about that anymore, with Smith taking over everyone. Forget running the simulation, just jack in a human and Smith will enslave his mind. Electricity without anymore work. Seems like a sweet deal for the machines to me. (Btw, those 2 white transparent guys from Reloaded... they would never be assimilated by Smith right? They would just float around for all eternity?)
The sunshine ending... I almost thought someone in the projection room had played a cruel joke and switched reels. Seems pretty out of place when, imho, the human race still feels pretty darn screwed. Zion only survives because the architect feels like letting them live. That's a pretty precarious situation for the human race, if you ask me. Besides, I bet the architect could devise a pretty wonderful advertising campaign so that no one would ever want to leave the matrix. "Stay in the matrix and be rich and famous, or live in a hole in the ground." Hrm....
Action's not bad. What I really liked about the previous matrix movies was Neo doing some good old fashion hand to hand combat in the matrix, with a bit of omnipotence mixed in. Too bad there really wasn't any of that in Revolutions. And I didn't enjoy seeing Trinity's now signature move in all three movies.
All in all I'm disappointed. But every beginning has an end. And now I'm at the end.
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