Watched the last Matrix movie. Too bad they didn’t do anything with the (hardly revolutionary) philosophical questions brought up by the first movie. So storywise it, uhmm, sort of tied up some loose ends, left others untied (what happened with the relationship between Lock and Naiobi?) and still others utterly frayed and dangling (too many to recount). The thing simply didn’t make sense on a bunch of levels. How did machines expect to survive without human ‘batteries’, and why would they agree to doing without? It might have been fruitful to demonstrate the real damage that the rogue program Smith was causing the machines: seeing it infect a human being “in the flesh” made for an elegant demonstration of its virulence against humans. Here’s another: what were the machines so heavily fortified against? Save for a few stragglers in Zion, most of humanity has been subdued, which would leave machines essentially unopposed. The best armaments humans could count on were on display at the battle for the dock, in the movie’s climax: guys in robot-suits, shoulder-missiles and an unseen “artillery” which was nevertheless declared insufficient. Maybe I just needed to be more of a comic-book geek.All in all, it was fun to watch, but the thrill most definitely is gone. I really hope this is the last we hear from the Wachovskis on this topic.