Dear readers, It is a universally accepted fact that truth is always bitter. To all those people who are new to the matrix, let me tell you what the matrix is all about. There is war between man (humans) & machine (Artificial Intelligence). AI wins.
Matrix is a virtual reality created by AI. Humans are no longer born; they are grown by the AI. Humans need to be provided an illusion that they are living in the real world. For the same purpose the architect is created who in turn creates a Matrix program which has flaws like all computer programs. In order to deal with the flaws, he creates “the one” program. The story revolves around a hacker called Anderson/Neo (Keanu Reeves) who is chosen as THE ONE (as we saw in Matrix).
There is another program called ZION which has a group of people who understand the matrix. The architect sets a limit for the ZION population and once the limit is crossed, zion is destroyed and the matrix is reloaded. Neo has to surrender his program since it needs to be upgraded and he has to rebuild zion. There have been many versions of the matrix and in all cases, the ONE chosen had surrendered the code. In matrix reloaded, Neo refuses to do so.
That forms the gist of the movie. What the movie is trying to say is that computers cannot exist without humans. Of course the cast was the same as the previous movie. All in all, a good one which makes one think!! But then, I believe it could have been made a lot better by not channelising most of the effort towards action and special effects.