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I loved each and everyone of the matrix movies. There can and never will be a movie as great as the first. It was new and unknown and you were captured by it the moment you saw it. I enjoyed Revolutions very much and i think it was quite a bit better than the second movie, although it did not touch the first. The problem i have is some unanswered questions. I can deal with some of them, and maybe its just me but the very end was the part i really wished to have been a bit clearer. When Agent Smith did his duplicating thing to neo, did it unbalance the equation. So by winning did Smith actually lose. If this is true did the previous ones lose? And why the similarity to what happened in the first movie when Neo defeated Smith. ok maybe im way off the wall here but can someone please help me out here. Also one more thing, does anyone think their is any coincedence to the "human" virus reference made by smith to morpheus in the first movie, to how he later became like a computer virus (duplicating himself). Just some thoughts...

This is a post i made early ont the Neo Vs Smith Topic. Someone else posted some interesting thoughts too, which ill post after this one:

The way i see it, the end scene with Neo and Smith, is there to sum up the whole "choice" idea thats been carried throughout the movie. Smith says "why do you keep getting up" and Neo says "because i choose to". Basically, Neo has freedom of choice, and smith does not.

Just before Smith is about to "delete" Neo, he realises that he doesn't have a choice. He knows that he will ultimately destroy himself (no Neo = No Smith), but he can't stop himself, because all he can do is clone himself, and he doesnt have any CHOICE. Hence the look of surprise on his face when he clones over Neo.

Basically; Smith's own self-destruction is due to he's inability to be able to choose...

This was posted by "The Moogle" after my post above. I dont know about the last part, I thought Smith die's because he can't exsist without Neo, but its an interesting idea none-the-less:

Extension on that last post's ideas...

The way I saw it was that Neo and Smith are counterparts. Specifically, Neo is the power of choice and Smith is the power of inevitability. They are so good at exercising their specific powers, too. For example, Smith acts very predictably , finding the Oracle and learning everything he wants to hear, knowing that he has already been chosen as the winner. Neo on the other hand has so much choice in him that not even the oracle knows what he will do. At the end, Smith struggles to figure out why Neo continues to persist, why he keeps getting up. Neo answers, Because I choose to. When Neo choses to die, this choice is so powerful that it triggers his innermost power, activating his anti-smith abilities, and Smith is killed. That's what I thought.

yea thanks alot for that interpretation... it kind of combines some of the things i was thinking with some things i wasnt ...

I don't think that the other One's had to deal with Smith like Neo did!
In the second movie The Architect tells Neo that all of Neo's predecessor's had choosen to reset the matrix, as opposed to confronting the problem.
So it would be a fair assumption to think that Neo has gotten the furtherest against Smith then any one else before him. (how long will peace last? suggests its the first time it has happened)

Also, I think the fundamental difference between Neo and the rest, is that Neo is in love with Trinity, and has to save her life (she is falling). He CHOOSE to save Trinity and to not take the easy way out (the whole choice theme coming up again).

I would just like to say that i agree with you saying this movie is awesome. The depth of this series is unparallel to anything i have seen before. There are so many different interpretations of the themes that are present in this movie, and, even though some people see this as being a negative, I think its great that the more you think about it the more questions arise. (Alice down the rabbit hole?)

Peace