I just saw this today, at a matinee (only way to avoid crowds)... it was fun, I thought. I'm not really enthralled by martial arts, although I do enjoy Jackie Chan movies <g> but the scenes were pretty amazing and some of them were gorgeously done.
The main plot, from what I could tell, was a massive head-frell about the nature of reality. *Nothing* from the first movie necessarily applies anymore. Also lots of philosophy about choice vs. fate, free will vs. destiny, etc. Which was interesting, but it did slow things down.
I've always understood Neo's "powers" to be an advanced form of hacking -- Morpheus can bend some rules, but Neo can get inside the code and rewrite it on the fly. Sometimes literally
But who the heck knows, really. He shouldn't have been able to do that bit at the end...
And of course, it is part 2 of 3, so it had to end on a down note (like "Empire Strikes Back").
Anyway, I'll be looking forward to seeing the third one.
PJ
