The Matrix vs The Matrix Sequels

[Maligner]

I had trouble with some of the original movie concept. If I understood it right, the red pills jack in and move about the matrix for their own purposes. It's suggested early that if a red pill comes across an agent, they are very hard to escape. This is further inferred by the agents warping to blue pills and becoming the agent again.

On the other hand, there are many references found by Neo of encounters between Morpheus and "authorities" but Morpheus escapes.

What I never understood was how the agents see red pills through the blue pills. Surely, once a red pill's face is known, then agents, or some other security construct, can instantly see these red pills through any blue pill. Further, do agents not always get involved? Or is Morpheus so good that he can get away from agents regularly?

Once Neo is in play, the agents show up way too much. Sure, there's a traitor that explains some of that. Even after the traitor is defeated, the agents are omni-present. This suggests that jacking in was never really feasible in the first place.

I'm sure it's just me, but I do think that the first movie could've been stretched to a second movie or just a longer first movie with a little more background.

Without my niggling thoughts, it is very good. I just have to accept everything as it is and I enjoy it very much.

I never tried to make a ton of sense of the other two because the first didn't seem to mesh with the concept; I thought it was clear Neo was "The One" and undefeatable. I was never sure why Smith happened except that to have more movies you had to check Neo's power as left by the first movie. This disappointed me intellectually.