Beautiful Intelligent Scientific Series. But only after...

Rating: 9/10 (14 August 2008)

My appeal to all People: Rate DOWN any movie you want but ... ONLY IF you understand the movie totally and then think it does not deserve a very high rating and NOT because ... you simply did NOT understand the movie at all in the first place so it irritated you and you did not like it.
Remember, it may really be a masterpiece like this one movie, valued down only due to YOUR incompetence.
Plot: We're into a very, very futuristic life on earth to the extent that there is almost no life existing on the earth surface due to the Big War between Artificially Intelligent Powerful Machines who have taken control of themselves and us humans. The Former have taken the latter as slaves. And using humans as a source of their requirement for energies. But in order to ensure that the slaves don't rebel, the Machines create a Virtual Reality atmosphere called 'The Matrix' that represents a version of the 20th century and it wraps the humans with the Matrix so that the poor humans think everything is going on fine with them and everything is perfect in their universe. But soon, humans find out that the universe was far too perfect for their liking albeit only subconsciously and so the Machines consider that all humans might rebel which may result in non-yielding or 0 % efficiency of energy creation because humans are the source of energy after all. So the Machines create a new Matrix but NOW it also contains a separate space for the rebel humans, if any present, that they can use as a haven/ home for themselves called ''The Zion'. These Rebels in Zion are provided with an aim to find 'The One' (the Anomaly) who will be their leader and the only one to defy the Matrix. But their's a twist. The aim is also provided by the ... Machines ! ... thus creating an illusion for the humans again. And the Machines can regularly keep cleaning the Zion off the rebels whenever they want to. Also the Agents are nothing but some Infecting Viruses injected into the Matrix by the Machines themselves. Each Version of the Matrix has its own version of the Anomaly (Neo). In this movie, Neo, finally, has the two choices: 1. Returning to the Matrix but which will result in the destruction of all humans. 2. Allowing to clean the Zion and refilling it. Of course, his power of choice is too an illusion created by the Machines again. He in fact can only 'choose' the second one.
Oh! I really love this Matrix series! Far too intelligent! It overestimated its audience! My Opinion: Perhaps this is the only SECOND perfect example of any masterpiece after Kubrick's/ Steven Spielberg's 'Artificial Intelligence(2001)' to be voted down by some people NOT because they did not like it BUT because they did not like it since they did NOT understand it in the first place. And this opinion comes from a movie-crazy fan like me who has done a Physics Major and works in the field of Software. It is the various Technical Theories in this masterpiece that some people could not properly interpret and digest. And this makes some movie-fans go crazy and bring the rating down because: 1. it challenges their IQ that fails to stand up to the required criterion set by movies like these. OR 2. They have enough IQ but are simply too lazy to put efforts to grasp movies like this. (At the time of me writing this, this is overall rated 7.0 which is not bad but still it deserves a NINE.) The Matrix Series is the Second most Ultimate Masterpiece in the Sci-fi Criterion, only AFTER 'Artificial Intelligence(2001)' which perhaps is one of the Best Masterpieces in cinema history. All these movies are better than '2001: A Space Odyssey'. The technicalities depicted in this intelligent film (...And I am not talking about the visual/sound effects of the movie) can be only be grasped (not totally but still...) by those in the engineering fields especially Software, Robotics and Electronics, basically anyone from the field of Artificial Intelligence. This movie is made for people like us. People like us don't care if this movie becomes the Greatest Blockbuster of all time or not. Simply because this movie satisfies us.
What to Expect:If you are a fan expecting that a sci-fi movie ONLY means black leather, Ray-Bans, bullets, guns, explosions, ruthless man-killing robots and mind-boggling action scenes, then ... this IS the movie for you. And a lot of Stunning Visual Effects Extravaganza. PLUS a very,very intelligent plot line.
Ironically, this is movie has not been made keeping the ordinary non-technical movie loving public in mind even though it IS concerned with the long-range future of all human beings.
Also only two types of movies never win any Oscars: 1. The 'Razzie trash' types that don't go well with the critics because they are way below the IQ of the critics and hit below the belt. 2. The 'Artificial Intelligence' types that don't go well with the critics because they are WAY ABOVE the IQ of the critics. This movie belongs to the second category.
The more times you watch this series, the more you learn.
For me, perhaps the Best Sci-fi movie ever made till date, is the most realistic practical scientific movie: 'ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE(2001)' which gets a 10 out of 10.
But since this, the Matrix Series and the Terminator(1 and 2) series contain some Time and Space warping events that are a little too futuristic even by today's technology standards, I subtract one star from their ratings and give them both: 9 out of 10.