so close yet so far

Rating: 7/10 (7 December 2003)

this may have spoilers. so please be aware of what you are reading.
this was probably the best trilogy to come out in a long long time. its also hard to say that the movie had the best ending that could possilby be made for such a story. as much as the trilogy had a disappointing ending, one should ask themelves if they saw it, or better yet, before they saw the thrid/last movie, "How could i have ended this story?"
fact remains, one can get puzzled over such a matter for a long period of time before just saying that the story itself is a simulation, which is what the story was. the story of a simulation playing another simulation, made by the oracle. in the end there are no machines or humans, just numbers and figures made by the architect.
as much as that is disappointing and heart breaking for things like Morpheus's ideals and neo's purpose in the story, but Agent Smith puts it all together throughout the series trying to find his purpose. and when he finds it, he finds out that he has made the biggest mistake of his life, which flushes him out of the matrix, allowing for the bug/virus (smith) to get thrown out.
people gave pretty mean ratings to this movie, but it think its because they didn't fully pickup the end of the story, so people go in denial, saying that there were no 2nd and third movies. that's just low, knowing that the directors did put a great deal of thought into this movie series. as much as it was a bad ending, credit must be given to the best ending for such a complicated story.
kudos to the Wachowski's. they were close but with no cigar.