Well done, well thought out, with only a couple of issues.

Rating: 9/10 (11 November 2003)

My first mistake was listening/reading reviews before seeing the movie. I was VERY impressed with the movie. The visuals were wonderful. I measure how good a movie is by how much I think about it once I am done watching it. I've been piecing the story line together in my head. I didn't find the movie anti-climatic. I didn't find it below my intelligent level, in fact the more I think about it the more depressed I get. It seems that the mere humans were just pawns in a struggle between good and evil, the good and evil of two human created, non humans. The Architect and the Oracle. Which one was good and which was evil? It wasn't by chance that the Architects was light skinned, and so gray as to appear all white. His clothes were even light colored. The Oracle on the other hand was dark skinned, dark haired, and even had a dark habit, smoking.
The Architect created a world for the humans to live, love, and grow. What was the Oracle doing? Franly, just creating chaos. In fact so much chaos that the lives of millions of human and non humans were nearly ended.
Was Neo modeled as a savior, or an anti-savior? I guess this all turns back to ourselves. Seldom, if ever are people pure good or evil. Causing mass murder would be evil, right? Well that is what Neo, and his group were doing. Not to mention that they were working for someone that was looking to destroy it all. Hmmmm makes you think.
Two minor problems I have with the movie. Neo was able to destroy the sentinel by his thought alone. Where the hell did that come from? This one aspect could have turned the movie into a interesting direction. It was glossed over by the Oracle, but not explained in any detail. Frankly it shouldn't be an ability outside the Matrix, hmmmm outside the Matrix...makes you think. Secondly. In the mech fighting exoskeletons, well bluntly, they were shooting MANY MANY more shells that was contained in those two tiny ammo packs. One can only hope that most of the frame contained ammo, and those packs were just topping it off, yeah right.
Bottom line? Good movie. Better than the first, for action. Better than the second, because the second was just irritating. The second movie was good, but I don't like being left hanging. Go see the movie, but put your thinking cap on first.