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Gary Varner
Date
December 18, 2021

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Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture, Philosophy of Mind, Relationships

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Agent Smith (character in Matrix series), Featured, Matrix Revolutions (film 2003), Neo (character in Matrix), Trinity (character in Matrix)}

The Matrix Trilogy: Some Final Thoughts

_{I enjoyed the films and am looking forward to the Matrix Resurrections but there are some things I need to say as a reviewer} _{Gary Varner
December 18, 2021

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Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture, Philosophy of Mind, Relationships}

While waiting for The Matrix: Resurrections, December 22: I admit, I’ve given this trilogy a hard time. But I do actually enjoy the films… when I’m not thinking about them. There are some good elements, and I want to point those out before going further. First of all, the relationship between Neo and Trinity is solid. It develops with the trilogy and we don’t have to suffer through a bunch of “will they?/won’t they?” tropes. A viewer can get invested in their relationship, so it hurts when Trinity dies. I appreciate any film where this risk is taken, instead of breaking up the characters and then getting them back together just so the writers don’t have to show the relationship’s Read More ›

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Gary Varner
Date
December 11, 2021

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Arts & Culture

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Matrix Revolutions (film 2003)}

The Matrix Revolutions Churns Into a Cosmic Drama

_{It turns out to be a conflict between chaos and probability with no apparent moral compass} _{Gary Varner
December 11, 2021

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Arts & Culture}

In preparation for when The Matrix: Resurrections drops, December 22, I’ve been reviewing the Matrix trilogy (1999–2003) that provides a foundation (links below). Last time out, I offered a map of what happened in The Matrix: Revolutions, the third film in the trilogy. Now for the details from that film: There is one important scene that must be mentioned before Neo is rescued from digital purgatory. While searching for Neo, Morpheus and Trinity visit the Oracle, and we get some much-needed exposition concerning her relationship to the Matrix. The Oracle turns out to be — more or less — an avatar for chaos, or variables, and the Architect, is an avatar for order, or probability. So, the movie balances its Read More ›

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Gary Varner
Date
December 4, 2021

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Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture

Tagged
Matrix Revolutions (film 2003), Neo (character in Matrix), Science fiction, Trinity (character in Matrix)}

The Matrix Revolutions (2003) Spins Out of Control

_{In Part I of this review of the third film in The Matrix trilogy — anticipating The Matrix: Resurrections (December 22) — we bring you up to date on the story} _{Gary Varner
December 4, 2021

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Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture}

Recently, I’ve been reviewing — and reminiscing, if you like — The Matrix (1999) and The Matrix Reloaded (2003). After all, The Matrix: Resurrections opens December 22. Although I find the plots disjointed so far, I can at least provide you with a cheat sheet for what happened earlier. Now let’s see what happens in the third film in the turn-of-the-millennium trilogy, The Matrix Revolutions (2003). Alas, the confusion continues. The movie opens with our lead characters discovering that Neo is not in a coma after all but has been taken to a zone between the Matrix and the real world; think digital purgatory. How does this happen? We don’t know. How can Neo be taken anywhere when he’s not Read More ›

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Gary Varner
Date
November 27, 2021

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Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture, Philosophy

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Science fiction}

The Matrix Reloaded (2003) Just Did Not Load Properly

_{Although the second part of the Matrix trilogy offers interesting ideas and exciting action, the confusing plot obscures the concepts it should explore} _{Gary Varner
November 27, 2021

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Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture, Philosophy}

What a mess of a story is The Matrix Reloaded (2003) — the second part of the Matrix (1999) trilogy, in which the world we know turns out to be a simulation created by AI intelligences. We met some of the characters in the first part, The Matrix (1999), reviewed here. But then what happened? First, we’re introduced to the new technician, Link, but no one explains where his predecessor Tank went. Then Zion (“the last human city, the only place we have left”) is introduced and there we find ourselves at the infamous Party Scene: To look at this techno-hedonistic rave, one might think we’ve entered volcano-challenged Pompeii of long ago. But this party is more reminiscent of the Read More ›

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Gary Varner
Date
November 20, 2021

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture, Philosophy

Tagged
Matrix Resurrections (film), Matrix Trilogy (films), Science fiction}

Will The Matrix Resurrections (Drops December 22) Break the Mold?

_{The culturally influential trilogy (control by evil aliens) enjoys a fascinating beginning — but a thud! ending} _{Gary Varner
November 20, 2021

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The Matrix trilogy is famous for starting strong, then falling apart by the end. Will this happen again? We’ll see. After eleven years, the Matrix Resurrections comes out December 22, 2021. Now is the perfect time to look back at the original trilogy, starting with the first film, The Matrix (1999). The Matrix series begins by following a computer hacker named Neo, who is led by a beautiful stranger into a forbidding underworld. There, “he discovers the shocking truth — the life he knows is the elaborate deception of an evil cyber-intelligence.” He had been searching for the mysterious Morpheus who defends a human civilization from attack by machines. Neo is horrified to discover from him that not only is Read More ›