spoilers ahead

Rating: 7/10 (5 November 2003)

so many questions. i went into this movie hoping for the best as one of the people that didn't hate the second, but it truly left me with a seriously bad taste in my mouth. first, the one sucks. i truly hated the fact that the only purpose he had was to bring a short lived peace between man and machine. if agent smith would have taken over neo's body and smith as a virus destroyed all machines in the real world, i would have been much happier, but that didn't happen. instead, neo dies and the world is left with man and machines living together. how long is that going to last. second, that kind of sucks for neo since his purpose was to save mankind in the real world when im sure he never followed the white rabbit in the first place with the thought of dying, he wouldn't even walk on the building ledge in the first movie. so what if he was unhappy in his job, i still think he would have been better off in the matrix. no, he wouldn't have loved trinity, but they would have never met, so what would he have to lose. maybe it's just me. i also personally believe that everyone would have been better off inside the matrix because you led a better life. i mean consider it, if you had the choice right now, would you want to leave. zion doesn't really seem like the place to be. hey, maybe it's just me. im just disappointed that the conclusion is that there might be a peace for a little while between man and machine. i am complaining alot, but the funny thing is, i actually enjoyed the movie. i hated the end, but loved the battle between man controlled machines and machines themselves. i was always hoping to see the war in the terminator movies between man and machine, so im happy that they showed this. i have to commend the wachowski's that though each movie was apart of a trilogy, that each movie was uniquely different in its own way, and each was enjoyable. but the problem is that they were part of a trilogy, and its just didn't come together with any sort of satisfaction. also, the fight scenes are pretty much non existent involving hand to hand combat, and when people or programs do fight, it's really not that entertaining. but i do reccomend watching it if you enjoy special effects and long, entertaining battles, but be forewarned, you probably wont enjoy how it comes together, for your own reasons. maybe its just me.