Writer and director Mahiro Maeda adapted the two-part film from the Wachowskis’ notes about the mythology, to present a history file from Zion’s archives. Read more: Megazone 23 – The Sci-Fi Anime That Predicted The Matrixīut it’s “The Second Renaissance” which really contextualizes the whole trilogy, because it elaborates upon the history of the war, and of the Matrix, from the otherwise unexplored perspective of the machines. “Final Flight Of The Osiris,” which played in cinemas before Warner Bros’ Dreamcatcher in the months before Reloadedwas released, also leads directly into the events of the second movie, with a crew making a last ditch effort to deliver intelligence about the Sentinel attack to Zion. The character is here is more promising than Clayton Watson’s live-action performance as Kid turned out, as one of the most notoriously irritating things about the sequels – he’s the trilogy’s Jar Jar. Another highlight, “Program,” involves a training program in which two unplugged crew-members duke it out over quality of life in the real world.Ī couple of other shorts link directly to the trilogy. “Kid’s Story” is a really interesting film that is briefly referenced in Reloaded, wherein the titular teenager manages to believe so strongly that his world is an illusion, he frees his own mind from the Matrix without help from the resistance. “World Record” explores how extraordinary people, in this case an athlete, could see through the Matrix without, say, having online hacker buddies or otherwise getting head-hunted by the Resistance, and “Matriculated” is about the machines’ perception of reality, given their lack of consciousness. The animated anthology was released straight to video and DVD a few weeks after Reloaded was released in theaters, and consists of nine short films which takes place before The Matrix and in the six months between the first film and the sequels.įor the most part, the films explore the world and characters of the Matrix, outside of the ground covered in the live-action trilogy, by asking questions about consciousness within the Matrix from various different perspectives. So, if Reloaded and Revolutions tell one climactic story, then the only thing that really fits in the middle to make it a trilogy would be The Animatrix. “May there be mercy on man and machine for their sins.” – B1-66ER
From here, everything that follows is actually about understanding the machines.
The case for the defense of the sequels would be that at this point, he only understands the world that his enemies have created and can throw his enlightened weight around within that world. Read more: The Matrix, Cypher, and the Curse of the Red Pill Joss Whedon once called this one of his favorite films of all time and what he said to Rotten Tomatoes pretty much sums it up: There are all kinds of factors to explain why the sequels aren’t as together as the first, which still stands up as a more or less perfect balance of action, philosophy and science fiction. It’s not totally unbelievable to think that the Wachowskis had this whole trilogy sketched out in their heads when they started on the first film, but we’re not here to quibble about that. I came here to tell you how it’s going to begin.” – Neoīearing in mind that we have a lot to get through, I won’t cover this one in too much detail. “I didn’t come here to tell you how this is going to end. End Of Part One – the final scene of The Matrix But most of the problems with the sequels come down to the way that it’s split up and the delivery of a whole chunk of vital information outside the live-action trilogy itself. “No, no, no, it’s better if you’ve watched the spin-off media” isn’t really the best defense of any film, which is why this isn’t the only point we’re making. It’s tempting to do more than one article about the Matrix trilogy, but that would almost fall into the same trap. Saying “the Matrix sequels” has become a punchline, or a by-word for disappointing crap that is sometimes expectorated across the internet like a particular disappointing loogy.Īs we see it, the problem is that when all of their spin-off media eventually panned out, Reloaded and Revolutions don’t look like the second and third parts of the trilogy – they look like the final part, split in two.
The Star Wars prequels are arguably much more hollow and forgettable than either Reloadedor Revolutions, but we’re still talking about George Lucas’ films. What’s really extraordinary about those movies is how completely they seem to have been forgotten.
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