put simply

Rating: Null/10 (7 November 2003)

everyone going a little nuts about what should have happened, stop and think from a pragmatic level: if the matrix was dissolved/destroyed and the humans controlled everything again there would still be a large population of people living (unaware) in tanks and the surface of the earth would still be, near as the plot seems to demonstrate, uninhabitable. there's no where else to go but the matrix. it's along the same simple point as arguments over atheism and religion that all three movies touch on. to know definitively of some other power (in our case, NEO as Christ figure or what have you, although to digress a bit there were quite a few "Christ" figures before Yeshua came along...) would negate the need for that power. you can't have faith in your foot, you look down and there it is. So, simply chain of events that WON'T work: Neo wins, the matrix is destroyed and everyone... see? what is everyone left to do, sit around eating oatmeal and having a chat with the "messiah." and oh yeah, it's just a few f*#%ing action movies. when was a sequel to anything founded on much more than the basic marketing awareness that if one sold a million, another should do just as well. looking for the GREATEST MOVIE EVER MADE? Excellent, the industry will continue to make a fortune off you. looking to enjoy yourself with a lightly cerebral action flic? you get what you pay for.