Starts with P. K. Dick, ends with gospel

Rating: 6/10 (30 March 2008)

The first movie started by exploring themes covered by P. K. Dick (what is reality? if everything was just an illusion?). Then after the revelation that Neo's is the Chosen One, the main storyline heavy relies on analogies with the Christianesim.
Neo = the Saviour, the Messiah. In fact he's dressed like a priest.
Agt. Smith = the bourgeoisie, enslaving men to serve its own materialistic purposes by feeding them hand-crafted, pre-chewed reality (TV?)
Morpheus = St. Peter
Trinity = contrarily to her name, she's not a divinity as much as a mix of the Virgin Mary (who "gives birth" to Neo by saving his life in the first movie) and Maria Magdalena. She is also resurrected by Neo like Lazarus was.
Cipher = Judas (Lou?), selling his Saviour for a steak
Architect = God. He's also white bearded and white dressed.
The Oracle = a prophet.
Seraph = an angel without wings.
The symbols are particularly blatant in this third movie:

all the plot revolves around the "faith" in Neo against all evidence and the "belief" that he's the one who will end the war

the final battle against Smith looks like a flying priest is fighting an army of homologated yuppies all looking alike (or was it a Magritte nightmare?)

when Neo is defeated by Smith the first time, a cross of light spreads from his real body lying in the city of the machines

when finally the Smiths are destroyed, light beams crack their skin open ("I am the Light"); when they are annihilated, the explosion propagates as a Celtic cross of light

the Zionist in the final scenes, when Morpheus announces that the Prophecy is complete, look like the first Christians gathered in the Catacombs

the final lines of the movie go like this:

Children: "So you knew?" Oracle: "I didn't know. But i believed. I believed much."
And I'm sure I'm missing a lot of them.
Plus there where other minor references from oriental religions and philosophy, mostly Hinduism and Buddhism.
And a lot of kung-fu.