[Apocryphon]

It really was a middle ground. The first third promises deconstruction and meta-stuff, but then the rest of the movie is redoing Matrix cliches, right down to the utterly confusing final rescue sequence in the real world coupled with the awfully shot final chase sequence in the Matrix.

This movie doesn't know what to be.

[oneoff786]

The real world rescue sequence really was confusing, and on top of that was comprised of a bunch of really uninteresting characters. They kept saying it was extremely difficult but it didn’t really come off that way in the film.

[Apocryphon]

It reminded me of the final sequence of Reloaded, it did the "character describes plan as plan happens on-screen", but at least the mission in that movie had some tension after things went awry when the Sentinels attacked the third ship that wasn't captained by Morpheus or Niobe.