A sensible guy (Agent Smith) vs. a haughty and selfish one (Neo)... I let you guess who could win in this lame world...

Rating: Null/10 (24 September 2002)

While watching this movie the audience is supposed to join the position of Neo, the freedom fighter, the elected, the one, the saviour of human kind blablabla and his nice company... but, I mean, how the heck can you disagree with Agent Smith when he says: -- " [...] Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move to an area, and you multiply, and multiply, until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet, you are a plague [...] " --
Ok, you can be the typical egoistic/egocentric/selfish type of guy who thinks that humans have the right of exploiting everything just 'cause they can do it, but still you must admit that the (supposedly) bad-guy of the movie is speaking the truth there.
Then again he says: -- "Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to be a perfect human world? Where none suffered, where everyone would be happy. It was a disaster. No one would accept the program. Entire crops were lost. Some believed we lacked the programming language to describe your perfect world. But I believe that, as a species, human beings define their reality through suffering and misery. The perfect world was a dream that your primitive cerebrum kept trying to wake up from. Which is why the Matrix was redesigned to this: the peak of your civilization." --
I found myself smiling at this, have you ever noticed the way some ppl without any apparent reason to be unhappy invent some problems they actually have not, create some paranoia or exaggerate little things just to waste their time in troubles? Ha!Ha! More than once I heard somebody saying the world would be a boredom if everything was right, no thrill, no revolutionary ideals to spread, no fights, no enemies to crush... I see Agent Smith is right once again, human beings find their way to progress by taking how more distance is possible from nature, and sophisticating their tastes and needs, that's why the best Matrix is just a copy of one of ours (supposedly) more evolved civilizations, with all its faults.
I couldn't avoid to sympathize with Agent Smith, also because NEO is definitely an unpleasant character with all his self-complacency, haughtiness and conceit, urged and encouraged to this by his similarly unpleasant company. Are you thinking machines here are blameworthy for the way they use humans? At least they induce us in a realistic dream of a real life, we don't do the same with all the animals we grow jailed, we puff-up and then we slaughter for our pleasure. (PLEASURE, not survival, 'cause we don't need to eat meat to live, we just do it because we like it).
So, IMO this movie has a pretty stimulating plot filled with annoying Hollywood-type exaggerate action... all in all I rate it a 6½ out of 10, 'cause it's entertaining and offers some cues for a reflection.