| The Matrix Reloaded |
| Agent Smith appears. He and Neo have a short discussion in which Smith says something about the similarity of the two. I don't understand how he came back yet or why they're similar. Was he an old "the one"? Anyway, during their discussion, about 10 other Smiths show up. He tries his new trick on Neo, but of course, it doesn't quite work. They all start fighting Neo. Neo is easily winning at this point. While they fight, people start crowding around like it's some kind of middle school fight, except those people are more Agent Smiths. Now Neo is fighting about 30 of them. He's going crazy on them, in what could be the most impressive fight scene I've ever seen. Then more show up and fight. He's fighting about 75 of them and winning. Then one knocks him over, so he gets mad. He pulls a pole out of the ground and starts whooping the hell out of them. They show what the scene looks like from outside. It's great! Smiths are flying everywhere. Someone from the audience yelled "Barry Bondss!!!!!!" in a high pitched voice. Then the Smiths finally tackle Neo, and one mentions something about inevitability. Neo suddenly stands up and the Smiths go flying off of him. Then he flies away, leaving 100 Smiths on the ground, looking up. Then, they all start looking around. Then they go home. It's pretty funny. I don't understand why Neo didn't fly away in the first place. He doesn't have to bother with that. Why does he? To keep the action in the movie, of course, silly. We probably transition to the real world here. There is a big theme of hope, faith and trust in this movie. The new ship operator wants his wift to trust in Morpheus and the prophecy, but doesn't believe in his wife's religious necklace. Ironic, I guess. Most people don't quite believe or trust the prophecy, but they let Morpheus and Neo go do their thing, for the same reason that we went to see this movie. That unrealistic hope. Um, I can't remember what actually happens here, but since we're in the real world, horn-dogs Trinity and Neo probably have sex. Right before he goes back into the Matrix, the guy who got possessed by Agent Smith tries to kill Neo. They don�t know about it though. He plays it off and wishes Neo good luck. Now Neo has a new mission. The oracle mentioned a keymaker, and Neo has to go see him, to get into the mainframe of the matrix. He, Trinity, and Morpheus visit some rich, successful guy who apparently has a great understanding of the matrix. He seems to be able to program things, such as the cake that makes the girl orgasm. I think that he is holding the keymaker prisoner because he enjoys his life so much. If you could do that kind of thing, would you want someone to go ending the matrix? Anyway, he's a pompous prick. They have to leave without getting the keymaker. But then the pompous guy's wife shows up and says she'll help them under one condition. Neo has to kiss her as if she was Trinity. She was hot. Trinity was mad. I was confused for a few reasons. First, what kind of demand is that? She tells them that her husband used to be like Neo, but now he's a jackass, so she wants to feel a true kiss again. OK, I guess....seems kind of outlandish, but whatever. Then Trinity gets mad. But she knows that it's not real. Why would she get jealous? Oh well. She takes them down to get the keymaker, a little Asian guy. Then the husband shows up. That little keymaker runs like he's never run before, down the hall. Neo stays to keep the guys from getting the keymaker, Morpheus and Trinity run after the keymaker, and the keymaker never looks back. He just runs and runs. It was really funny to me, but I�m now sure how funny it really was. Anyway, all the bad guys unload machine guns on Neo, and he stops the bullets. They realize that it�s worthless to try to shoot him. Luckily, they are in a room with hundreds of weapons on the walls. They all fight Neo in another gratuitous fight scene. He starts doing things like hitting them with the butt-end of weapons, but then ends up killing everyone anyway. Why didn�t he do that in the first place? Answer: he�s too powerful. There�d be no action in the movie. Again, something just doesn�t seem right in this movie. Trinity and Morpheus finally catch the keymaker, but they have some bad guys on their tail. Twins, with white dreads and white suits. They are known as the twins, and they can disappear, move through things, and reappear. Seems pretty cool to me. I wonder what Neo would do against them. Anyway, next comes the car-chase scene. I was too into it to even remember what happened. A lot of awesome camera shots, stunts, and fighting, I know that. It was really long, and involved Trinity and Morpheus passing the keymaker back and forth to each other while they tried to get away from the twins, the agents, the police, and agents who have become police. Pretty bad-ass. I can�t do the scene justice, so I�ll fast forward to when Morpheus fights an agent. He is losing, but I didn�t think that he was losing badly enough. It�s an agent, and not only an agent, an upgrade from the first movie! That agent should have had his way with Morpheus. Notice how I keep changing my verb tenses? It would probably be better if you just ignored that. Anyway, I guess the twins are dead and gone from the movie, way too soon. They Wachowskis only explored the possibilities of these characters in one scene, in which one of the twins jumps from his car into the good-guy car and starts fighting them. It was awesome because he kept disappearing, appearing, and fighting. Anyway, Neo flies in and saves the day. They now have the keymaker. The machines will be inside Zion in 9 hours. They have to act fast now. The keymaker tells them about a room in a building, on a floor that can�t be reached by stairs or an elevator. In this room is the mainframe of the matrix, but the entire floor is rigged with bombs. The good guys come up with a plan to shut off the electricity to the city so that the security alarm won�t be tripped. Neo asks Trinity not to come into the Matrix, no matter what. She agrees, and they start to carry out their plan. Something goes wrong, though, and the plan to shut off the backup electricity goes wrong. Trinity has to enter the Matrix and save Neo, Morpheus, and the keymaker from getting blown up. Neo and company, meanwhile, are in a back-door passageway to the building. Agent Smith somehow appears in the passageway. They have to fight him, but then a bunch of them show up. The keymaker runs away again. Then he appears in one of the doors behind the Smiths. He opens the door right after Trinity turns off the electricity, and Neo and Morpheus fly through. The agents try to shoot him, but only get the keymaker. The keymaker knew it was going to happen, and accepted it. He was a machine too, and believed in fate. I�m not sure if it�s significant at this point that the Agent Smiths delayed Neo from opening the door. Was he helping them? I just don�t know. Finally, Neo opens the door to the mainframe and goes inside. Inside, there are a bunch of TVs with Neo�s face on them, and a guy who calls himself the architect sitting at a desk. He looks like Colonel Sanders or Mel Gibson�s dad in Maverick. He is the builder of the Matrix, or at least he and the Oracle were. Anyway, he starts in with the philosophical rantings, and Neo shoots him in the face. OK, not really, but he should have. He says that the choice has already been made. Then he explains that this is the 6th version of the matrix, and that every once in a while an anomaly appears that is �the one�. He ruins the matrix, and the architect has to start all over again, trying to make it �the one� proof. Then we find out that Neo is there because Zion is going to fall, just like it has 5 times before, and that he has to choose people from Zion to restart the city. The prophecy was a lie. Since the oracle was a builder of the Matrix, she tells the prophecy to keep the one to mess things up. Also, he has to make a choice between saving Trinity and saving Zion or something. I don�t know. I�m not sure I understood any of this part. His little speech went over my head. I got so confused as to what was happening. This was one of my biggest complaints of the movie. They kept some of the philosophy from the last Matrix, but they either went too deep or didn�t explain it well enough. I still don�t understand what happened. Neo chooses love over logic, and saves Trinity from the situation he envisioned in the opening dream. Then they come back into the real world. The one thing I did like about this is that in an instant, Neo went from all-powerful to insignificance. What he could do in the Matrix apparently was not to free the human race. It was just part of the system. |