A never ending story?

Rating: Null/10 (10 August 1999)

Neo, the film's central character, has a problem with the reality of the world surrounding him. Like so many philosophers before him, he poses the questions: Is it real? And, through a number of adventures, he finds that it is not. The world, as he knows it, is but an intricate make-believe, wool pulled over our eyes by intelligent machines. It is the Matrix, designed to maintain the illusion of the late twentieth century in the minds of humans vegetating on huge breeding farms and supplying the machines with bio-electricity.
The Matrix is a very entertaining and even intelligent film, however, it leaves one question unanswered. How would Neo know that he had really exited the Matrix? How can he be sure that what he perceives as the real world as opposes to the reality of the Matrix, is really real?
Could this be on purpose? Is there a sequel, a Matrix II. coming, where Neo find that Zion, the last stronghold of humans is also just a part of the Matrix? Then he would have to break out of there too, to find reality - a reality that, once again, may be called to doubt, leading on to Matrix III and beyond...