I haven't seen it yet, but have been hearing about the story changes. My take is that the original story is fairly complicated for many audiences to grasp. I ha

I haven't seen it yet, but have been hearing about the story changes. My take is that the original story is fairly complicated for many audiences to grasp. I had to watch the movie a handful of times to really start to get the philosophical ideas in it. It's likely they wanted to simplify and clean up the ideas to make it more palatable to a wider audience. Probably a mistake IMHO, the Matrix after all showed that huge audiences will turn out for awesome action scenes and setting and philosophical jibber jabber without complaint.