Loved the film... I didn't even mind the rave scene... it was, at its very worst, what the Ewok party at the end of Return of the Jedi should have been. "Yub nub" my ass, George...

I think the rushing at the end of the movie was to not give people any time to think about the possibilities of what the Architect meant util they were out of the theatre... I am a big fan of the "secondary Matrix" theory... it also lends credence to the whacky idea running through my head from the first movie (and possibly confirmed by some of the rumours of spoilers that have come from the Enter the Matrix game) about why Neo is able to do what he do. The suggestion that Neo and Smith have something in common is great foreshadowing, I think...