Yesterday, Karen and I finally went to see The Matrix:Rebounded. Like everyone else on the Web, I had my opinions about it.

First, long-term thought doesn't seem to be Morpheus' forte. Let's say they do manage to shut down the Matrix without killing all the humans connected to it.

Then what?

There's a quarter of a million people in Zion. If the number of human "coppertops" is roughly equivalent to present-day real-world population, there's about six billion humans who'd suddenly be needing food, clothing, and shelter — 24,000 new mouths to feed for each man, woman and child in Zion.

The surface of the Earth is, if I remember correctly, uninhabitable; nothing growing. Do they have enough mush synthesizers to feed all six billion people? Do they have a distribution network for that food (and clothing) in place? Do they have the medical facilities to rehabilitate all those people's atrophied muscles, like they had to do for Neo when he was first ejected from the Matrix?

And all that assumes they can actually get those people out of their capsules before they starve or suffocate (or, if the machines dump them into the slurry like they did to Neo in the first movie, rescue them all before they drown).

Second, what on earth makes them think they can hold secret meetings in the Matrix? Every word they "utter" is converted from neural impulses into data which is transmitted to all the other people (or programs) located in the same virtual vicinity. There shouldn't be a need for an Agent to be present to hear it; the Matrix need only pay attention to the data as it's being transmitted, like the FBI's Carnivore system.

For that matter, how can there be such a thing as a "rogue program"? It's all being executed on the Matrix's systems; seems like a simple thing for the Matrix to simply terminate a program that isn't behaving. (And, of course, all the "rogues" we saw ultimately turned out to be furthering the Architect's plan.)

Thirdly, why didn't Neo just send the bullets back at his attackers rather than simply letting them fall to the ground? Failing that, since he was able to telekinetically grab some weapons for himself, why not just send all the weapons lining the walls at his opponents? Silly Neo.