I started watching a DVD of Matrix Reloaded the other night. This is the second instalment of the Matrix series which represents the real world as an elaborate computer simulation. The original Matrix was a box-office hit. Maybe every one liked the idea of reality being a fiction, programmed into the heads of sleeping millions by evil computers. Matrix is a row of green digits. The basic conceit of “The Matrix” is the notion that the material world is a malevolent delusion, designed by the forces of evil with the purpose of keeping people in a state of slavery. The essential Matrixian setup: a bunch of brains in a vat hooked up to a machine that was “programmed to give [them] all a collective hallucination, rather than a number of separate unrelated hallucinations.”

I turned Matrix Reloaded off after the "franchise film" after the scene known as "The Burly Brawl", (Chinese ballet) and before the car chase scene. I mailed the disc back to Quickflix, despite the fight scenes or special effects.The action sequenceswere so over-the-top . I haven't seen the the last film of the trilogy, The Matrix: Revolutions, nor am I likely to.

The sequel to The Matrix is more of the choreographed action genre with less of a focus on the plot-- Zion is the last bastion of humanity and one which is under imminent attack from the machines. In order to avert the attack, the humans are going to have to send out an emissary (Neo and his ship) and re-enter The Matrix. Neo is the One—the Messiah figure who will see through the Matrix and help free mankind.

The plot is in the form of hero's journey into the Underworld. The Oracle sends the hero off on his journey, from where he returns with special knowledge.