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This reviewer has the right attitude. His observations of the movie and especially of uberFANBOY Knowles was dead solid perfect. The entire Matrix series was at best a B-movie. Lots of action and special effects and producers just as strange as Ed Wood.

If you look at it as a B-movie, you don't mind the fact that Keanu Reeves can't act and that one of the major stars, Lawrence Fishburn, has gained over 40 lbs since the first movie, which is about six months in the Matrix timeline. You'll also enjoy seeing Hugo Weaving continue to ham it up as a whacked out agent with a serious identity crisis -- everyone just has to become Smith. His acting style, though overdone in Lord of the Rings, is just perfect for his character in the Matrix. All of the battle scenes, special effects, and tense moments make the movie an enteraining piece of eye candy.

Even though it is eye candy this movie made me think. It made me realize how shallow we are and how quick to forget what is really important. If you look at the first Matrix movie the things you looked to have resolved concerned the machines controlling the humans, using them to produce their energy, growing humans in fields and liquifying some to produce food for the others. At the end of Matrix 1, we want to know how all the little hints and threads in this movie are woven into a resolution, hopefully one that benefits the human race.

By the end of the Matrix 3 little has been resolved except that the machines are no longer attacking Zion. Are the machines still using humans for their own benefit? Yes, the humans are still batteries, the machines are still killing and liquifying humans to feed others and the real world outside of Zion is still uninhabitable for human life.

That few people seem to be bothered by this is what has caused me to start thinking. Have we become so desensitized by all the flashy CG that what has really happened goes over our heads? The machines won people, they still have everything they ever wanted except now the vacuous humans in Zion have "PEACE." Morpheus dreamed of the end to the war and now they have it. Their greatest wish has been fulfulled. Not justice for all humans -- just peace and there will be fewer people willing to fight for justice for all now that some have peace.

Just like the politics of those who are willing to give up everything they know is right because of their desire for peace. You will never have true peace without justice. The Machines know it will be a matter of time until the humans wise up, but they had this whole thing planned from the beginning. Everything they did including the careful creation and nurturing of the One and the One mythology was to counterbalance and control what they perceived as human behavior and tendencies. So that they could continue to use human beings for fuel while on the other hand making humans feel they had accomplished something.

The ending of the movie with the Oracle, and the little girl was very disturbing to me. The false sense of security from the Oracle the humans were given with this token acknowledgement of Neo by the little girl reminded me of something political. The patronizing condescending treatment of blacks by the Democratic party. The same way they have pulled the wool over the eyes of my people, the Oracle and the Architech have pulled the wool over the eyes of the people of Zion.

It seems the Wachowski brothers may have pulled the wool over the eyes of a few others too, but not so many as they would have liked.

The ending of the movie with the Oracle, and the little girl was very disturbing to me. The false sense of security from the Oracle the humans were given with this token acknowledgement of Neo by the little girl reminded me of something political. The patronizing condescending treatment of blacks by the Democratic party. The same way they have pulled the wool over the eyes of my people, the Oracle and the Architech have pulled the wool over the eyes of the people of Zion.

If you watched the ANIMATRIX DVD set, you will discover that the machines set up shop in the middle east as their hub.

Zion is a label where humans live outside the matrix.

Is it just me, or have any others noticed the parallels to the current affairs occuring in the middle east vs the civilized Western nations? Was this coincidence or planned?

Something to chew on. :)

...and that one of the major stars, Lawrence Fishburn, has gained over 40 lbs since the first movie, which is about six months in the Matrix timeline.

That's not weight. It's extra RAM! ;)

By the end of the Matrix 3 little has been resolved except that the machines are no longer attacking Zion. Are the machines still using humans for their own benefit? Yes, the humans are still batteries, the machines are still killing and liquifying humans to feed others and the real world outside of Zion is still uninhabitable for human life.

You're certain this is how things stand? Could it be otherwise?