What Is The Matrix?

I'm
going to make a rare departure from technical stuff for a moment. I've
seen Matrix Revolutions twice in the last twelve hours, once in IMAX. />

A
number of people have asked me for an opinion. To
sum up in a spoiler-free manner:

First
off, IMAX was better, though not enormously so. (Oddly
enough, Reloaded was enormously better in IMAX.) As
an example of state-of-the-art action movie making, it kicked ass. But
what about the underlying theme? Let's
summarize:

The
Matrix was a movie about kung fu vs. evil robots that asked and answered the philosophical
question "what is the nature of reality?"

The
Matrix Reloaded was a movie about kung fu vs. evil robots that asked and answered
the philosophical question "what is the nature
of free will
?"

Matrix
Revolutions was a movie about kung fu vs. evil robots that asked and answered the
philosophical question "if Neo got into a
fight with Agent Smith, who would win
?"

We
return you now to your regularly scheduled programming.