The Matrix Revolution in theatres today

Everything that has a beginning has an end

CALIFORNIA - Alternative staff

November 2003

 The Matrix Revolutions is the third and last sequel of the Warner Bros. Matrix.

Released six months after the second sequel, Matrix Reloaded, the Matrix Revolutions is considered a revolution in movie making.

Warner Bros announced on Sept. 29, 2003 that the Revolutions will be released on Nov. 5, 2003 at the same time around the world at 2pm GMT and at corresponding times in over 50 countries worldwide.

The story of the matrix is mainly about a new way of life, where every body is connected to a machine, called the matrix. It is a computer simulation of the real world, but if you die inside the matrix you die in the real world, since your brain is connected to it.

The creator of the matrix, a human programmer playing a role of a creator, designed it with 99 percent precision. Consequently, only 1 percent of humans inside the matrix refused it and are fighting to free the people inside it.

Neo, played by Keanu Reeves, is the chosen one who is expected to save the human race from the attack of the machines.

In the first matrix, Neo succeeded in “freeing his own mind” where he was able to do actions that could not be done in the real world.

In the second sequel, the Reloaded, he enhanced his skills to do “his superman stuff” outside the matrix in what we consider to be the real world defying the conventional laws of nature.

While Reloaded was about life, Revolutions addresses death with its tagline being: “everything that has a beginning has an end.”

Neo is expected to further enhance his skills to stop all the machines and save the world, putting an end to the matrix three-movie series.

The matrix introduces a philosophy that is being taught in some universities and introduced in philosophical discussion forums, with an increasing number of philosophers researching what is known as “the philosophy of the matrix.”

Alternatively, Egypt banned viewing Matrix Reloaded as being too religious. Egypt’s governmental Censorship Board claimed that the story of the film that is focused on the search for the creator and control of the human race may cause “crises” in the country. “Violent scenes might “harm the nation’s civil peace,” a statement by the Censorship Board said.

Whether Egyptians allow the movie into their theatres or not, Egyptians would have further curiosity to watch it, and they can surely find it on the black market, “mostly run by state officials who might have served on the Censorship Board itself in the first place,” according to one Egyptian.

Other Arabs would have the chance to watch the “philosophy of the matrix,” which is expected to score record high revenues in Arab theatres in several countries.