There are a few things that The Matrix: Reloaded leaves you with- you know that Neo has somehow brought his Matrix powers into the real world and can use them to stop the squid-like Sentinel machines.

You know that in doing so, Neo was plunged into a catatonic stupor, and now lies on a table opposite shipmate Bane, who Agent Smith has taken over. Both, now aboard a Zion ship, lie in comas on tables as Trinity and a nurse keep close watch.

However, everything that has a beginning has an end.

The gang’s all back for the third and final installment of the wildly popular, culture-influencing Matrix series.

Keanu Reeves reprises former hacker-turned-the-One-Neo, Laurence Fishburne is once more the prophetic believer of the One’s messianic potential as Morpheus, and Carrie-Anne Moss as Neo’s girlfriend Trinity, Jada Pinkett-Smith is back again as Niobe.

All the villains you love to hate aren’t leaving without a fight, either. Lambert Wilson once again plays Merovingian and Hugo Weaving is in full force as the despicable, replicating program, Agent Smith.

Although Neo’s body is present in the real world, his aura remains stuck between it and the Matrix in a solemn and sterile white train station. Neo encounters the Trainman, a gruesome Wild West gunslinger-looking figure, played by Bruce Spence.

The Wachowski Brothers had a hole in the plot to fill with the untimely passing of Gloria Foster. Foster, who had played the Oracle in the first two Matrix movies, was replaced by Mary Alice, an actress bearing similar facial features as Foster. The switch was tied into the film. The Oracle was seemingly taken away before the conclusion of the last film and has been reloaded into Revolutions. Audiences will quickly notice that Alice is a new Oracle. The Oracle quips of the change: “I still don’t recognize my face in the mirror.”

Not to give too much away, but fans of the first and second movies will understand that there are a few givens in the final movie: A) there will be a gigantic battle to defend Zion from the onslaught of the approaching Machines, by the filmmakers’ promises, it is 11 minutes long and $44 million dollars; B) Neo will ultimately fail or succeed in his role as savior for the people of Zion; and C) the world is going to end and be created (as predicted by the Architect, played by Helmut Bakaitis) again and again, or the pattern of Matrixes will be ended by the One. As expected, there are eye-popping visual effects, insane action sequences and more of the Matrix philosophy that fans so lovingly embrace.

There are a few surprises along the way (blindness, destruction and death, all of which make for good drama), but in the end, Revolutions brings the series to a full head and completes the cycle that began with 1999’s The Matrix.

The final movie creates a trilogy that will stand as the Information Age’s Star Wars, lauding as many memorable characters and fantastic action, along with a philosophic bend that embraces Eastern and Western religion.

Everything that has a beginning has an end, and Revolutions goes out with a bang.