“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 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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