and the third installment of The Matrix trilogy
. The film was released six months following The Matrix Reloaded
. The film was written and directed by the Wachowski brothers and released simultaneously in sixty countries on November 5, 2003. Despite the fact that it is the final film in the series, the Matrix storyline continued in The Matrix Online
.
The film was the second live-action film to be released in both regular and IMAX
movie theaters at the same time.
After the events of The Matrix Reloaded
, Bane and Neo are unconscious.
If that's true, then I've made a mistake and you should kill me now.
You were right, Smith. You were always right. It was inevitable.
I don't have time for this shit.
I wish I hadn't. That was my last thought. I wished I had one more chance to say what really mattered; to say how much I loved you, how grateful I was for every moment I was with you. But by the time I said what I wanted to, it was too late. But you brought me back. You gave me my wish. One more chance to say what I really wanted to say... Kiss me, once more. Kiss me.
Everything that has a beginning has an end. I see the end coming. I see the darkness spreading. I see death... and you are all that stands in his way.
He is you. Your opposite; your negative. The result of the equation trying to balance itself out.
Mr. Anderson. I see you are as predictable in this world as you are in the other.
Can you feel it, Mr. Anderson, closing in on you? Oh, I can. I really should thank you, after all it was your life that taught me the purpose of all life. The purpose of life is to end.
Wait. I've seen this. This is it. This is the end. Yes. You were laying right there, just like that. And I. . . I... I stand here, right here, and I'm supposed to say something. I say, "Everything that has a beginning has an end, Neo."
This is my world, my world!