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Matrix II Spoilers

If you enjoyed the Keanu cyberpunk extravaganza which was the film the Matrix, then here's some hot rumours for you - fresh from the production studios in the UK.

Apparently the human resistance officer Trinity (the lovely Carrie-Anne Moss) - Keanu Reeves' main squeeze - is kidnapped and taken to an alternative virtual reality; but one not based on the 1990s analogue existence seen in the first film.

Our hero Neo will once again be played by Keanu Reeves - no doubt still sporting the trendy marine crop seen in Speed and every other movie he's ever been in - will have to hunt her down by going back into the AI-controlled Matrix.

The plot for this one has some distinct Philip K. Dick moments when Neo is led to believe that Trinity is an AI double-agent tasked with finding Zion and destroying humanity's last enclave on Earth.

But when you're in a virtual reality, can you trust anything you see or hear? The film then features a weird sub-plot where Neo believes that he might be the double agent.

After all, all those weird powers he has could have been given to him by the computers controlling the world, in the same way as they enhance their Agents? Right. The events of the first film were a cover-building exercise designed to trick Zion into letting Neo get close enough to the city to do some real damage.

Oh well, it seems you can't trust anybody, not even yourself (haven't we been here before with Arnie S. on the Mars Colony?).

The Last City, Zion, features large in the movie, as does its massive good-guy mainframe - the Core Conscience (said to look a little like London's Big Ben. The original site is still over at www.whatisthematrix.com but the URL www.whatisthematrix2.com hasn't yet been registered (now there's an opportunity for some eager fan to get sued by Warner Brothers).

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