Went and saw The Matrix: Revolutions yesterday night (first day, second screening). Reaction: predictable movie, if you’ve been following all the hints the Brothers W have been dropping in the Animatrix and Enter the Matrix, but fascinating to watch and a visual (and acoustic) treat nevertheless.

Of course, some critics miss the point of the movie entirely, but the creators of the movie have remained very consistent with their intention of creating a SF messiah movie, even down to disappointing a large percentage of their fanbase with an allegedly weak ending.

Animatrix-watchers, on the other hand, would agree that the trilogy ended very well. In The Second Renaissance (which you can see online: parts one, two), leaders from the machine city, 01, go to humanity’s doors — actually, the UN — and ask for peace and coexistence. Their pleas are denied, the war soon begins.

At the end of Revolutions, humanity‘s representative — Neo — travels to the machines to ask for peace. If, to a machine, that would not be a satisfyingly symmetrical and fitting note to end the war, I do not know what would be.