Hating Matrix Revolutions
SPOILER ALERT (Deal with it, it’s an old movie now)
Anywho, Matrix Revolutions had a few problems, but I’m going to point out the one that I thought was what both ruins the movie, and holds it in my mind as one of the most interesting endings I’ve ever seen. But, let’s start at why The Matrix was so awesome. People like it because they can make it into whatever they want. Christians, we turned it into the most BA version of Jesus, death and resurrection, to hit the silver screen. Take that Jesus Christ Superstar. Seriously though. Neo was totally the messiah in that movie, and he rocked my world.
The imagery, the plot, the symbolism, the effects, the action. What a good movie. If you’re out there saying, “I didn’t like The Matrix because it doesn’t make sense.” Yes it does. Let’s move on.
Now, then, we move into Matrix Reloaded where we find our messiah in a much cooler spot, killing bad dudes by the truck load. He’s just too cool for school. Now, enter one of the coolest car chases ever, a bunch of babbling dialogue that means absolutely nothing… and wham, we’re struck with a cliff hanger.
In the third installment, Matrix Revolutions, Neo is on his way to finalize this whole machine war business. Because, the machines are completely going to destroy humanity. Apparently, they’d done it before, and another messiah had come and saved them for a time, but Neo was going to change it. He was going straight into machine city (01, if you’re a nerd like me) to face off against the head machine. (Like the Borg, he just didn’t have Q)
Once he get’s there, he’s supposed to fight his archenemy and save everyone. Once this guy is dead, humanity will be safe, for sure.
WRONG.
Neo gives up.
He let’s the bad guy get him. The bad guy then dies too, but Neo is still dead.
He’s carried away into the center of machine city or something. And the machines stop trying to kill humanity.
WHAT? NO! Neo is supposed to be BA! He’s supposed to WIN. Not lose. It pissed me off. I can’t stand that. I want the good guy to win. Because he totally could have won. He could have beat Agent Smith and gone home… but… he didn’t.
He died, and his sacrifice paid for the lives of all of humanity.
He changed the rules.
And it’s met with hatred, criticism, and disbelief.
Who would do such a thing?
