I Wanted Sci-Fi, Not Christian Propaganda!

Rating: Null/10 (30 November 2003)

Okay... so the first Matrix was awesome. The special effects were ground-breaking, and the plot wasn't half-bad either. Then, the second film came along. Reloaded formed a bridge from the effects-based original into the philosophical world of the Matrix. Thus, the Wachowski brothers brought us further glimpses of the plot of the Matrix: Machines vs. Men, computer programs personified, the overwhelming theme of Choice. Then, they brought us Revolutions. By this point, the effects, though still pretty awesome, had lost that new car smell, and we began to see a bit of redundancy. The brothers carried over the same theme of Choice into this film as well, but they made one major mistake, in my eyes. While they should have been capping off this spectacular trilogy they placed over it, a blanket of Christianity. The Matrix, in its whole, as a trilogy, is an obvious parallel to the Crucifixion, the Resurrection, and the Passion. As if the imagery wasn't obvious enough, they gave us Zion, Trinity, and the Nebuchadnezzar, all biblical or Christian references. Then, there were the multiple crucifixions and resurrections. For example, when Neo goes to the robot city, and they plug him in, with his arms out at ninety degree angles, as if he was on a large cross. And the light goes through him, and blatantly forms a cross at his abdomen region. And finally, the last scene of Revolutions, where Sati creates the magnificent sunrise, and she tells the Oracle that she did it for Neo. I thought for a good amount of time, after the first and second films were released, that someone had actually succeeded in producing a purely awesome sci-fi movie with excellent philosophical themes. But after seeing Revolutions, I realized that the Wachowski brothers could not resist turning their masterpiece into a piece of Christian propaganda.