If you want me to expand then sure:
The movie acknowledges 2/3 happened, but reboots it as "well the machines are still doing what they want even if humans are technically free". So it kinda goes back to the ending of the first movie where the power dynamic of yeah you have the machines but at the same time humans now have power as well. The movie in general is a love story about Trinity and Neo and it worked really well for me while at the same time setting up a universe where they can make new movies after this one. Which clearly didn't happen since this one bombed so bad. But yeah, I liked it but I understand how the meta commentary of the first 40 minutes filtered pretty much everyone.
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Still - I'd buy it on boomer-disc I suppose if one day they finally released a 4k boxed set that included the Animatrix. That cool anthology all but disappeared from pop culture.
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That's another trend from the 2000s that should come back. Those weird Direct to video anime interquels of movies. Animatrix was great, Riddick got one of those as well, Batman Begins also had one. There's others I'm forgetting, Hellboy and some others.