Grieving the loss of Trinity, Neo brokers a ceasefire with the Machines, negotiating a truce between them and Zion… if he can stop the seemingly unstoppable Smith. Meanwhile, Agent-turned-computer virus Smith has overrun the Matrix, absorbing pretty much every sentient being within its virtual reality – with designs on invading and corrupting the real world next. The conflict between Zion and the Machines has finally boiled over into all-out war, and the Machines stand poised to wipe out their human enemies for good. So, with this in mind, let’s take a look back at what happens during the climax of The Matrix Revolutions, unpack why these events happened and what they really mean, and tease out how this sets the stage for The Matrix Resurrections! How does The Matrix Revolutions end?Īs The Matrix Revolutions draws to a close, things are looking pretty grim for our heroes. Everyone seems convinced their interpretation of Revolutions’ ending is correct – and, fittingly enough for a franchise that asked its characters (and viewers) to question their reality, it’s hard to know what to believe.
This intentional ambiguity has given rise to several fan theories about what actually happened and why, and what that means for Neo, Trinity, Morpheus and everyone else caught up in the war between Zion and the Machines. The Matrix Revolutions co-writer/director (and sole director of Resurrections) Lana Wachowski has previously noted that the film “asks you to actually participate in the construction of meaning”. This means revisiting the ending of The Matrix Revolutions – originally the ending of the Matrix story, period – and trying to wrap our heads around that flick’s notoriously hard to follow finale. With only two weeks until the release of The Matrix Resurrections, many of us are hurriedly rewatching the Matrix trilogy, trying to tease out the connection between those movies and the new sequel.
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