editor's note: don't read if you haven't seen matrix revolutions yet and don't want to read any spoilers

dear wachowski brothers,

first i have to say thank you for a few things:
thanks for restoring some of keanu's acting credibility.
thanks for casting miss moss and miss belluci in sexy sexy roles.
thanks for stirring my imagination for the last four years.
thanks for creating a fantastic video game (while not great on playability, it was superb on storyline and mythology of the matrix).
thanks for creating the animatrix, which filled in so much backstory and heightened the myth of the matrix.
thanks for using stunning visual effects and fantastic cinematography that kept me riveted the whole way through.
thanks for making mr weaving one of the greatest villians of all time--i'll never get tired of saying, "hello, mr anderson."
and lastly thanks for copping out and making a horrendous ending to what could have been one of the greatest trilogies of all time.

did you attend the george lucas how to fuck up a wonderful franchise school of filmmaking?

fine, neo dies as an allegory to christ. but, jesus, man, could have have found anything more contrite than settling for peace between the humans and machines?
according to your movies, this war has been waging for hundreds of years, and everytime, a one appeared, there was massive struggles and battles for who would win. the machines always triumphed, and humanity survived.
and now, it all just ends because neo convinced the machines to do it that way?
come on.
way to add way more to the story of the oracle, but then do nothing with it!
way to add sati, the last exile, and then do nothing with it!
way to make smith's role garguantuan, and then never explain why it was happening that way in this iteration of the matrix!
if smith was neo's opposite--his "negative"--to balance out the equation, wouldn't the matrix be fine, then? two values of opposite sign add to zero! 12 year olds know this, dude.
what happens with niobe and morpheus? love? hate? morpheus was fighting his whole life for the war, and now it ends and we don't know what he does next?
the architect--who dropped such a hugh mythology bomb on us in reloaded--gets just a few lines in this one?
the frenchmen and his hot wife appear for a few moments and then are forgotten for the rest of it?
i could go on with many more complaints about the weakness of your final third plot, but i won't.
i'm sure you'll hear from thousands of other fans that you managed to anger.

where was the real ending? the one where either the humans really triumph and vanquish the matrix, or the one where the machines crush us and our puny hopes? why did you cop out and take the middle road? roadkill happens in the middle of the road. either of those endings would have left us stunned, speechless, mind-fucked beyond belief. allowing us to talk about the matrix for years to come in a glowing tone.

just know, wachowskis, you had the potential to make a sci-fi trilogy that would have made starwars look like a fucking teletubbies trilogy, but you copped out.

sincerely,
reger

ps. i won't buy any of the trilogy on dvd now.