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The
Matrix
- Matrix Reloaded
- Matrix Revolutions
The film's events are immediately
following those of The Matrix Reloaded and assume
familiarity with the story of the last two films.
Bane/Smith
and Neo are both in an unconscious state. The former is said to be
merely asleep, but neural patterns indicate that Neo is somehow
connected to the Matrix. Morpheus,
dispirited after the destruction of the Nebuchadnezzar
and discovering the true nature of the Prophecy at the end of the last
film, starts a search for Neo within the Matrix. Neo is in fact trapped
in a subway station
named "Mobil Avenue", a transition zone between the Matrix and the
Source (the Machine mainframe). At this station, Neo meets a 'family'
of programs, including a girl named Sati. Her father tells Neo that
Mobil Avenue is controlled by a program called The Trainman who is an
exile loyal only to The
Merovingian. When Neo tries to board the train with the
family, the Trainman refuses, and knocks him away from the train.
Seraph
contacts Morpheus on behalf of the Oracle,
who informs Morpheus and Trinity
of Neo being trapped in Mobil Avenue. Seraph, Morpheus, and Trinity
pursue the Trainman to secure Neo's release, but he escapes. The trio
enter Club Hel to
confront the Merovingian for Neo's freedom. The Merovingian demands "the
eyes of the Oracle" in exchange for Neo's release. Trinity
loses her patience and provokes a mexican standoff, where everyone is
pointing a gun at someone's head, thus forcing the Merovingian to
release Neo.
Troubled by new visions of the
Machine City, Neo decides to visit the Oracle one last time. She
informs him that as the One, he developed a connection with the Source,
the machine mainframe which both the Matrix and the Machine world are
derived from. All of Neo's abilities - both in and out of the Matrix -
exist because of this connection. This is how Neo was able to stop the
Sentinels near the end of The Matrix Reloaded,
although his lack of preparation resulted in a temporary confinement in
Mobil Avenue (notably, "Mobil" is an anagram for "limbo"). She
characterizes Smith (who is also growing in power) as his exact "opposite"
and his "negative", who threatens to destroy the
Machine city as well as the Matrix. She tells Neo cryptically that
"everything that has a beginning has an end," and that the war is about
to end "one way or another." After Neo takes leave of the Oracle, a
large group of Smith clones arrive and successfully assimilate the
unresisting Oracle, gaining her powers of precognition.
In the real world, the remaining crew
of the Nebuchadnezzar and the Mjolnir
(also referred to as "the Hammer") encounter Niobe's deactivated ship,
the Logos, and its crew. They successfully
reactivate the ship and begin to interrogate the now awakened Bane, who
claims he has no memory of the events of the earlier battle. After
contemplating his visions, Neo announces that he needs a ship to travel
to the Machine City, although he cannot explain why. Niobe, who was
told by the Oracle that she would have to make a choice to help Neo or
not, lets him take the Logos. Trinity decides to
accompany Neo.
The remaining crews plan to return to
Zion, and avoid the Sentinel army by allowing Niobe to pilot the Mjolnir
through a series of service tunnels, which are nearly impossible to
navigate. Shortly after departure, they discover that Bane has murdered
a crew member and has hidden aboard the Logos.
However, they are unable to warn Trinity and Neo. Before the Logos
can depart, Bane ambushes Trinity and takes her hostage. Neo fights
Bane, who reveals himself to be a manifestation of Smith. During the
struggle, Bane manages to blind Neo by cauterizing
his eyes with a severed electric cable. In spite of his blindness,
however, Neo can see Smith inside Bane as a fiery
form, and kills Bane. Neo releases Trinity, who pilots them towards the
Machine City.
In Zion, the defenders deploy
infantry armed with rocket launchers and Armored Personnel Units in
order to protect the dock from the incoming assault. The dock is
invaded by a massive horde of Sentinels as well as two giant drilling
machines. The APUs fail to keep the Dock, with their leader Captain Mifune fatally
wounded. With his last breath, Mifune tells Kid, who was refilling his
ammunition supply at the time, to open the gate for the Mjolnir.
Encouraged by Mifune, Kid gains the courage to fight and open the gate.
Just as the remaining humans are about to be overwhelmed, the Mjolnir,
with more Sentinels at tow, arrives at Zion and sets off an EMP that
disables all the Sentinels as well as the remainder of Zion's defenses.
The humans are forced to fall back to the temple entrance and wait for
the next swarm.
Nearing the Machine City, Neo and
Trinity are attacked. Neo uses his power to destroy the incoming bombs,
but Sentinels overwhelm the ship. To evade them, Trinity flies the Logos
up into an electrical storm cloud. This manages to disable the
Sentinels, but also disables the ship's engines. Above the cloud layer,
Trinity gets a glimpse of real sunlight and blue sky. The ship then
free-falls directly toward the Machine City, and despite Trinity's
attempts to ignite the engines in time, the ship crashes. The impact of
the collision fatally wounds Trinity, and she dies in Neo's arms.
Neo emerges into the Machine City to
strike a bargain with the machines, personified by the Deus Ex Machina. Neo warns
the machines that Smith (who has by now assimilated every human and
program within the Matrix) is beyond the machines' control, and will
soon assault the Source. He offers to help stop Smith in exchange for a
ceasefire on Zion. The machines provide a connection for Neo to enter
the Matrix and confront Smith. The world is now wholly populated by
Smith copies - the clone with the Oracle's powers steps forth, claiming
he has already foreseen his own victory.
The city's population of Smiths
stands by and watches while Neo and Smith square off. Fighting on the
streets, through buildings and into the sky, they finally brawl in a
flooded crater. Neo is eventually outmatched by Smith but refuses to
give up the fight, and a frustrated Smith continues his attack until
Neo is too badly hurt to go on. Smith announces "Everything that has a
beginning has an end, Neo." Hearing the Oracle's parting advice again,
Neo baits the scared Smith into assimilating him. Neo's final words to
Smith are, "It was inevitable," quoting Smith's oft-spoken admonition.
Smith's assimilation of Neo is
seemingly successful, and when the Oracle-Smith asks Neo-Smith whether
it is over, he receives a nod and smile as reply. Back in the Machine
city, Neo's body spasms as a surge of energy enters his body through
the Matrix connection. Starting with the Neo copy of Smith, a white
light begins to rip the clones apart from the inside out, similar to
the destruction of Agent Smith at the end of The Matrix.
With the elimination of the Smiths,
all the programs and humans that were possessed return to normal,
including the Oracle. The Sentinels that are about to attack withdraw
from Zion. Neo, having sacrificed himself to save both the Machines and
humans, is unplugged from the Matrix and his body is respectfully
carried away by the Machines.
The Architect, upon meeting the
Oracle, tells her that she "played a very dangerous game" by attempting
to change the way the Matrix functioned. The Oracle responds by saying
that she understood the risk and knew it was worth taking. The two
reach an agreement to unplug any humans who want to be freed. The
closing shot of the film depicts a new dawn on the world of the Matrix,
free of green tint, created by Sati.
(Wikipedia)
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