I braved Covid-19 and saw this today. I give it my blessing. Worth seeing. It's now a love story. First, the spoilers:
So, there was a peace brokered between humans and machines. A peace of sorts. The machines, without any source of power, fought among themselves in a civil war. Humans and machines built a new city of Io together, and humans and machines live together there. However, many humans didn't want to leave the Matrix and a new version was rebooted. This version was purged of many of the old programs, and as exiles, these programs, such as The Merovingian, would quite like to get back in too.
Neo and Trinity, although they had died, were resurrected by some very clever medical machines and put back into the Matrix by The Analyst, the architect of this new version. When Neo and Trinity are apart, apparently there is no electricity between them, but when they are together, that chemistry makes lots of power for the machines. Special new pods were designed for them by The Architect and his wife, who gave details of there design to their daughter. When The Analyst found out about this deceit he had them erased. Their daughter still holds a grudge against him for this.
This new version is set in our present day, although the real time that has passed is longer, 50 or 60 years. The Matrix can be entered via mirrors now, rather than having to dial telephones. Morbius is still dead, but Neo, as Thomas Anderson. re-created him as a modal program to try to remind himself once again. Agents have been replaced by Bots who can be anyone anywhere. Agent Smith exists as Thomas Anderson's business partner and head of the company he works for. The Analyst is his analyst. Trinity is married with kids.
We find Thomas Anderson is the world renowned creator of a trilogy of extremely life-like Matrix games at the turn of the century, that are still remembered with affection today. The company he works for is now a subsidiarity of Warner Brothers, who want to make a sequel. This plot obviously leads to a lot of fun during the focus group sessions.
Thomas Anderson himself is on medication (blue pills) because he has in the past believed his game was real and even tried to fly by jumping off a building. There is a lot of fun in the first half of the film with names and situations. The analyst's black cat is called Deja Vu, and the cafe where several scenes take place is called Simulatte. He is contacted by "Morbius" and a new ship's captain character.
Despite the fun, I thought the film only got better in the second half, when Neo becomes aware once again that his life isn't real. He then has the option to free Trinity as well, forcing another new reboot of the Matrix, and a possible new war, or else returning to the Matrix voluntarily. Obviously, they find an option 3 instead.
I also wondered, is she "Trinity" because she is the third person (after Neo and Smith) (other than it's programmers) to be able to manipulate the Matrix code?
*If I misunderstood any of that plot, then sorry, the blame lies entirely with myself.
