Last 20 minutes of Matrix Revolutions **SPOILERS**

[StevenJGore]

What on earth is going on? :-?

Call me slow, but for various reasons I only got to see Matrix Revolutions for the first time last night!

**SPOILERS**

I just about managed to follow it up to the point where Trinity dies, including all that weird stuff with the train station and the asian girl with her father, but in the last twenty minutes I got rather confused!

Neo is connected to the matrix by that huge thingy whose face is made up of thousands of those sentinels, and we see him appear in the matrix in a street surrounded by thousands of Agent Smiths. Lots of rediculous over-the-top fighting follows (*yawn* *yawn*) and then it ends up with Agent Smith and Neo in the crater in the road. Smith is saying something along the lines of "Yes, I've been here before! Now where is it I'm supposed to stand? What is it I'm supposed to say?" and he sticks his hand in Neo (steady!) and Neo gets that black stuff crawling all over him towards his face and he is turned into another Agent Smith. But then we see Neo (outside the Matrix) get pulses of energy sent through him and Smith (back in the Matrix) starts to panic, and then all the Agent Smiths are destroyed from the inside by bright intense light. Cue cheesy and 'emotional' last few minutes of the film.

Huh?

So what is the explanation for Smith being destroyed? And what happens to Neo in the end?

Any explanations/theories welcome!

Steve.

[StevenJGore]

Basically, when Smith takes over a person, part of that person is still residual in there. Once Smith had realised that he'd seen the end and he positioned himself he said something (I can't remember what) then looked confused.

The Smith that Neo was fighting used to be the Oracle, and she was the one who said those words, not Smith. Neo knew this and realised that he would still have some presence even after Smith had take over his body.

Neo allowed Smith to take over his body and once that was done the Source (for lack of a better word) was able to kill off Smith (like a virus) through the direct link it had with Neo.

That's why you see the Oracle at the end of the scene.

Many thanks Vincent! I would NEVER in a million years have worked that out for myself! :-)

It's a bit of an obscure ending though, don't you think? I wonder how many 'casual' viewers understood it, as opposed to die-hard Matrix fans? (I class myself as somewhere in between!)

who was the stupid designer that put the 'pilots' out in the open when using those rediculous bots

I was wondering that myself! All it would take is a stray bullet or a piece of shrapnel hitting the 'pilot', and the huge fighting machine would be disabled!

Steve.

[StevenJGore]

Neo gets killed at the same time as Smith

Neo died?!!! I didn't think it was particularly clear either way. We see him lying down and those probe things removing themselves from him, but I'd just assumed he was knackered!

Neo gets returned to the source to be taken apart and figured out so they can make a next messiah

Did it show/explain that, or is it a theory? I think I need to watch it again, I seemed to have missed loads!

Steve.