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Matrix is great all the way through. The problem is that a lot of people didn't understand the story. There's a good explainer on YouTube by Looper.
My only real gripe with the matrix trilogy is where Neo can “see” agent smith in Bane’s body and “see” all the machines at the machine city. It didn’t need that over the top messiah thing when he was already the messiah simply because of his power within the matrix.
And if the idea is “the real world is also a simulation, made to convince humans they were free” it sort of goes against all the monologuing that smith and the architect do about how humans rebelled against versions of the matrix in which they were free
That's explained in the video. Neo can see the machines because he communed with the Source.
Sure but that’s a massive leap. Whereas most tech in the movie is based on a sense of “hard” sci fi to an extent, and they spend so much time with exposition on “why” something happens, neo just grows a 5ghz WiFi card in his head. And if that hardware is in every human’s head already, why is it never used for any purpose? And if it’s not cybernetic, it’s even a bigger leap because his brain tissue was rewritten to be a big antenna