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Waluigi1 posted...

I dislike this sentiment. It's just conjecture. People assume he was God, but like you pointed out, all he did was fly inside of Smith and destroy/reprogram/whatever the hell he did.

perhaps i could have worded it differently

don't you think it was implied he had more abilities than just flight, stopping bullets, and "good fighting"?

if you have the ability to turn into light, it seems like you could use that power more creatively than neo does in 2 and 3. you think he just got a single-use ability to do all this crazy stuff for a hot minute?

the simple fact is that the business wanted to have a bunch of traditional fight scenes in the sequels, and the rest of the movie had to warp around that. turning into light and doing crazy shit would make that an impossibility, and the movie would have to be about either the real world, or a cold war esque transition of the matrix into something better for humans

they even address this directly in the hyper-meta 4th wall breaking of the first act of m4. they ask "what is the matrix? is it just cool martial art fight scenes with bullet time?"