Here’s the thing: the first Matrix was a real, I know this is a word that’s overused but it was a game changer, it changed the way that science fiction movies looked in the same way that Blade Runner had done beforehand, in the same way that something like William Gibson’s Neuromancer helped invent cyberpunk. So you do have a pre-Matrix and a post-Matrix world.
Neither of the immediate sequels lived up to the original. I mean Reloaded was a…