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I didn’t want it to sound like I’m a complete Wachowski fanboy because the Matrix Trilogy didn’t get past me free of criticism. My critique is just different from the far more common “I hate everything that’s groundbreaking and popular” mindset. Essentially there’s one thing about the movie that I don’t like.

1. Neo is “born” with this skill, and noone else has it. “Prophet”
2. Someone else knows about it before hand and searches him out. “Prophesy”
3. Neo must learn about, and then use, his special power or all is lost. “Savior”

Those kinds of story lines bother me. Religous implications aside, this type of baseline is the start of so much racist/classist thinking, that people are somehow born with or without the skill to succeed and there is nothing they can do about it. Too many people have used birthright as a way of claiming superiority where it really doesn’t exist. I prefer to think that anyone has the potential to succeed given sufficient effort. Just be clever. If Neo was just a normal clever guy rather than something unique, it would have been a lot better for me.