The Matrix Revolutions

In The Matrix, hacker Thomas Anderson, known as Neo, learns from Morpheus and Trinity that ordinary human life is a simulation maintained by intelligent machines. Morpheus believes Neo is the One, who can alter the Matrix and potentially end the machines' domination. After crew member Cypher betrays the resistance, Morpheus is captured by Agent Smith. Neo and Trinity rescue him, and Neo survives being shot by Smith, awakening powers that let him perceive the Matrix as code and destroy Smith's apparent form. In The Matrix Reloaded, the machines send a vast force of Sentinels toward Zion, the last major human stronghold. Neo and Trinity are now in love. The Oracle tells Neo that he must reach the Source of the Matrix with the help of the Keymaker, a captive of the powerful program known as the Merovingian. Meanwhile, the seemingly defeated Smith has become a self-replicating rogue program. He copies himself into a human resistance fighter named Bane, giving him a presence in the real world. After a dangerous operation involving several resistance crews, the Keymaker opens a path to the Source but is killed. Neo meets the Architect, the creator of the Matrix, who reveals that the prophecy of the One is part of a recurring system of control. Zion has been destroyed and rebuilt through earlier cycles, and Neo is expected to reset the Matrix and select survivors to rebuild it again. Instead, Neo rejects this plan to save Trinity, who has entered the Matrix and been shot by an Agent. He catches her as she falls, removes the bullet and restarts her heart. Although the Architect warned of catastrophic consequences, the Matrix does not immediately collapse. Back in the real world, Sentinels destroy the Nebuchadnezzar, but its crew escapes. Neo unexpectedly disables approaching machines without entering the simulation, then falls unconscious. Another ship rescues the survivors. The crew learns that an attempted defense of Zion has been devastated by a prematurely triggered electromagnetic pulse. Neo remains in a coma, while the Smith-controlled Bane lies unconscious nearby, leaving the resistance vulnerable on both fronts.