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Warning: If you haven't seen the film yet, this thread will most likely ruin it for you.
Really, don't keep reading unless you want to know what happens. 
Ok, lets hear it. What exactly happened? Has Neo been absorbed into the Source? Did he and Smith cancel each other out, balancing the equation? What is the deal with the little girl? Did she paint that sunrise for Neo? What is her role? As a program, does she now serve a purpose in the Matrix? Did the Architect and the Oracle say that people who wanted to be freed from the Matrix would be? What do you think?
Have only seen it once. And to amplify what Mike said, please don't post if you're just going to be a troll.
Neo's been put into hibernation in the Matrix so he can come back for the sequel when the "evil Trinity" attacks. Or, if we go by the theory of the matrix being reset yet again (witness the black cat), perhaps so he can come back as "The One" again in his next life.
Smith go buhbye. Positive and negative. Needed the Oracle (who apparently is the Mother of the Matrix after all, way to use that as a throwaway) submitting to Smith so be able to tell Neo he had to do the same (rather than continuing to fight).
The little girl is harder to read. Seems clear that she did paint the sunrise. She's found a purpose in the Matrix, as opposed to in the machine world. Which, afaik, we haven't really "seen". I mean, it was well and good to see a program could love, but a trainstation as a waypoint between the machine world and the matrix?
Let alone the nutter with a bad hairdo and the Merovingian relegated to an effete Jabba the Hutt role...
Yes, the Architect and Oracle seemed to say that there would be freedom for some. Though, I've got to tell you, the Matrix is going to look pretty good when they see the sunday-morning frat house that is Zion.
Humanity has lost all their ships. Zion's a pile of rubble. Neo's off somewhere. The Kid is probably getting laid as a hero of the battle. Link and his wife are like "wow, more screentime than Morpheus!"
Who wants to volunteer to head out past the docks and meet with the machines? 1-2-3 NOT IT.
I mean, it's clever and all that to leave things unresolved. But... it seems like lots of stuff from Reloaded was just ignored when the time came to edit Revolutions. We'll do lots of cool effects and leave the audience guessing!
I expect they'll do the next superman better. Like, in daylight. With it not raining. And no roostertails when flying around a warehouse 2 feet from the floor.
Though that one effects shot with the rain cool as hell.
Too much action. I mean, 25 minutes of guys in power armor shooting at sentinels? 95% of which sentinels are doing nothing but swirl around in the background?
And I'm probably not the only one who went into the movie going "gee, I hope Niobe, Link, and his wife get as much screentime as Morpheus! And I hope we see Morpheus adjust thruster controls during an overly long sequence with no sense of tension!"
| Humanity has lost all their ships. Zion's a pile of rubble. |
This is something that's puzzled me since we first learned of the previous incarnations of Zion and The One. If the machines destroyed Zion each time, then how was it rebuilt and where did the ships come from each time? Did a few humans "awaken", go underground, and begin building a city from scratch? Did they find the remains of Zion, assume it was simply the remains of humanity prior to the machines taking over, and build upon that?
It seems unbelievable that newly freed people with zero resources could build a society dependant on machinery for survival using technology far beyond our own, which is all they should have an understanding of considereing the world they were raised in, inside the Matrix, was based upon the present day world. I mean, a bunch of regular people living in a hole in the ground can come up with massive military hovercraft, those sick mechanical soldier exo-skeletons, and an oxygen/co2 exhange system that allows them to live hundreds of miles beneath the surface?
I've seen all the movies, including Animatrix, I've beaten the game and witnessed all the insight it has to offer, and I still have tons of unanswered questions. In a way, I guess that's what makes it a great trilogy. I'll still be thinking about it long after its conclusion.
Doubtlessly, all your answers will be available in The Matrix MMORPG, for a mere $10 a month. After 24 months.
And for all practical purposes, they really can't be living hundreds of miles underground. But, then again, practicality was thrown out the window with hundreds of miles of tunnels everywhere fit for hovercraft.
I don't know that it's quite clear what happened to Neo at the end. Or exactly how the Smiths were eventually defeated. Was it just a balancing of opposites? Did the Source "send a spike" into Smith?
More questions than answers. Which is a fine way to end the film. But so many other questions from the other two movies were also dodged.
I just came back from seeing it. IMAX, big screen, awsome sound. A great show.
But... I'm disapointed. I exprected to get all the answers from this movie, not have yet more raised.
I imagine marketing wanted the the possibility of a fourth movie.
I too am dispointed that Phersephone didn't mean anything more than that to the story. Seems futile.
What has made Smith so strong between the second and the third movie? How can Neo fight with hundreds of SMiths in Reloaded, and have trouble with only one of them in Revolution?
I believe that Neo let Smith assimilate him, in order to let the machine (the architect?) zap him, and therefore zap Smith with him. That was the only way to kill all the Smiths. BTW, what is Smith exactly? A computer virus? Seems the closest thing I can think of.
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