It is factual that they stand no match with the first movie, but I really enjoy them anyway.I like how we get a bigger picture of what the story is. I love that we finally understand what being The One means and what he has to do, I like that the lore itself on everything is explored, the story of the matrix (or shall I say the matrixs), that we got to meet the creator of it and even the Deus Ex Machina.The action scenes on Reloaded are amazing as hell, I enjoyed the one at Merovingian's more than the one at the highway or the one with Neo against 10'000 Smiths, but they're all overall good, only flawed by their CGI and maybe by their duration, which is quite long. Quite the strenght of the whole trilogy, they are all fantastic action movies, who bring al almost unique type of fighting for their time, which is as silly as badass, sometimes more and sometimes less.The first Matrix was actually about the Matrix, what it is, what it means, what you can do in it, and everything else that has to do with it, a fucking amazing and horrifyng concept was presented. The sequels disappointed almost everyone because first of all, the hype caused by the first movie which is to this day considered a cinematic masterpiece of cinema, was impossible to live up to, and the other reason in my opinion is that the sequel basically stop being about the Matrix at all. Reloaded mentions the Matrix's story while the Architect talks to Neo, but other than that, is becomes just a location, nothing more. It all becomes an epic fight Humans vs Machines.While the Matrix plays one hell of a big part in the story, it all revolves around The One. The first movie presented us this epic superhero called The One who is supposed to free humanity and save the world. In the second movie is becomes more of a religious thing, something to believe in like people believe in the return of Jesus today, Morpheus's faith is challenged at Zion, because they don't believe in The One as he does. Later on, Reloaded deconstructs the myth of The One explaining to us what is actually means, what kind of program he is and what he has to do with Zion, the Code and the Source. Finally, in the last movie, The One kind of finally saved the World by erasing the virus that Smith became by absorbing every life in the Matrix. It's the journey of Neo, that starts by being Mr. Anderson, a normal person that feels that something is off in the world, and starts a secondary life online as Neo, and then fully embraces Neo and abandons Mr. Anderson by taking a gamble of the Red Pill. Then he discovers the Matrix, the One, Agent Smith, he becomes "real". He's challenged with the myth of The One by Oracle itself, and the first movie ends by him finally 100% becoming it. Now, Reloaded, we have The One, it's time for him to understand what to do, to understand what being himself means, but then breaks the cycle of The One itself when he chooses not to step the original door, bring the Code to the Source and save Zion. He chooses Love. Something that the former Ones never did.But the Architect lied. Stepping the door to save Trinity didn't automatically mean the extincion of mankind. We almost got there, but it didn't happen. He chose the right door.The final movie is the less packed with story elements or evolutions, we don't actually discover other key elements in The One's path, it's rather more about ending it for good. This is it, while Zion is fighting the symptoms, Neo needs to travel to the actual Source, the disease, and fight it. Fight Smith. Fight Smith and save Zion. Neo does the ultimate sacrifice by surrendering to Smith, because by being jacked to The Source, Smith copied himself onto Neo and that exposed him to the Deus Ex Machina who instantly deleted him. The One's path is done. Neo is dead, Zion is saved, and humanity is free.In conclusion, I find the Matrix sequels necessary. I know that they look worse because the balance between goofyness and coolness is unbalanced on the first variable, that the pacing is not the best and that some storylines are just weird, like the Merovingians and Revolutions opening on the Limbo. I just can't imagine anything else happening. Zion's final fight for salvation with all those mechs, ships and cannons against the squids is long and confusingly bad, but it had to happen, we had to feel the danger of time passing, that Neo's actions in the City would have had instant effects on Zion. It all led up to there, it did become Humans vs Machines. All elements needed to be there, Smith too. He indirectly saved Zion. He was the changing coin that assured Neo's power to demand Zion's salvation.Yes, the first one was more shocking, with a horrible truth that crushed us and that led us to question our reality to this day, and the other two didn't. But I don't think they needed to. The first one, above all things, builded a World and it started a story around it to tie all events, and the main end of the sequels is to develop and ultimately end that story, and in my opinion, they did that in a very good way. I aknowledge their flaws, they're far from perfect, but in my opinion also far from how bad people make them.It may very well also be the case that most people didn't even understand the movies. I too had to make a lot of research because after years from the first watch, I found out that the story had wayy many layers that I originally tought, and shout out to all those madlads on Quora who wrote actual essays to answer to my, and others questions. via /r/movies https://ift.tt/3fLUNXn
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