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Matrix Revolutions

Last night was opening night for this movie. The theater was totally packed and there was a long long lineup. I could only make it in to the very late show, so by the time I got home it was almost 2 am. Didn't get much sleep. Anyway...

**** WARNING: SPOILERS ****
If anyone figures out what is going on in this movie, and what really went on in the previous movie, please explain! I was hoping that the mysterious stuff from Reloaded would be all cleared up in the third movie, but no, the questions are not answered. I still have no clue what is happening. I must say, the first Matrix movie was better than either of the two sequels.

OK, so the machines drill through the ground and finally make it to the Last human city of Zion deep in the earth. There's a big battle where the humans try to defend the city, but they're losing. In the matrix, Agent Smith has zillions of duplicates and is becoming really powerful. They don't really explain why Smith has this ability or why he's so special. Neo is in a sort of coma but his mind is in a strange reality which is not the matrix but not the real world either, and he's trapped there. The place looks like a train station and he can't leave without the cooperation of a A.I. guy named the Train Man or something like that, who is one of the bad guys, and Neo gets beaten up by him. Morpheous and Trinity visit the Oracle, who looks like a different person now, and she tells them to make a deal with the powerful French A.I. guy from the Last movie, to free Neo. So Morpheous and Trinity go and fight their way into the French guy's hideout and after a lot of making threats and pointing guns at each other, he agrees to free Neo. So Neo is able to get back into the real world. Then he decides to fly one of the ships to the Machine City to try to stop the war. The guy on the ship who was taken over by Agent Smith's mind gets up and kills one of the crew. So Neo and Trinity go on Niobe's ship, while everybody else (Morpheous, the captain and crew of the other ship, Niobe, Linx, and so on) are on the other ship, and they try to get back into Zion by flying through a narrow shaft that is very difficult to pilot through. So Niobe's flying the ship, and sentinels attack them, and to make a long story short, they get back to Zion and use the EMP pulse to kill a bunch of the machines that were attacking the city. But more machines attack and it is obvious that the humans are doomed. On Neo's ship, the guy who is possessed by Agent Smith attacks Trinity and Neo, and Neo manages to kill him but Neo's eyes are burned and he's blinded. However, for some reason he has developed a new power and he can see. On the way to the Machine City, the ship is attacked but Neo can blow up the sentinels with his mind, and they manage to get there, but Trinity is killed. They don't explain why Neo has all these new powers in the real world. In the Matrix, Agent Smith has absorbed the Oracle and he's now able to fly, just like Neo. In the Machine City, Neo makes a deal with the machines, saying that he will stop Agent Smith if the machines agree to stop the war with Zion. So Neo goes into the Matrix and there's a big battle between Smith and Neo. In the end, Neo seems to lose, and Smith absorbs Neo, but then all the Smiths explode. The machines stop attacking Zion and they leave. Neo is lying on the platform in the machine city, but it's not clear whether he's alive or dead. The people in Zion are all cheering and happy that they made it. Then in the Matrix, there's a brief conversation betwen the Architect and the Oracle. The End.

What???? There are so many unanswered questions.
Why is Neo able to destroy machines in the real world?
Why is Neo able to see when he's blind?
Was Zion really destroyed and rebuilt many times?
What's all this cryptic stuff about balancing the equation and unbalancing it, and the One being a manifestation of the imbalance or something like that?
Why is Agent Smith able to duplicate himself? What's so special about him?
Where there really many 'Ones' before Neo, and what happened to the previous Ones?
Why did Neo come back to life near the end of the first movie?
etc.

They said that the story of the Matrix is over and there will be no more sequels. The first movie was very good, but in the sequels they introduced way too much weird stuff...