The time has come. The battle of good and evil will be settledon a dark, stormy night between Keanu “whoa” Reeves andHugo “Elrond” Weaving.

Curiosities set aflame more than four years ago by the Wachowskibrothers will come to a subtle and satisfying finish in the finalchapter of the “Matrix” series, “The MatrixRevolutions.”

When we last left Ted “Theodore” Logan, aka, Neo(Reeves), he was in a coma after stopping Sentinels in the realworld with the same ease as when he would stop the occasionalbarrage of bullets in the Matrix. The surviving hovercraft crewmembers are gathering their remaining resources to do what they canagainst a seemingly apocalyptic army of machines.

Trinity (cunning catgirl Carrie-Anne Moss) and Morpheus(Laurence “Othello” Fishburne) are still alive in mindand body, Niobe (Jada Pinkett Smith) gets into bad mama-jama modeand the Oracle (Mary Alice, taking over for the late Gloria Foster)is getting painted into a corner by Agent Smith (Weaving),who’s growing stronger and stronger by the moment.

It’s only a matter of hours before the fate of themachines, humans, Smith and Neo will be sealed.

For those who have been following “The Matrix”detail-for-painstaking detail since its spring break release in1999, there will be no disappointment.

It wouldn’t be fair to say whether or not issues areresolved and to what degree they are or aren’t. But as AgentSmith himself says in the second film, “Smith willsuffice,” so shall this finishing chapter in one of thegreatest trilogies of recent years.

Nobody in the cast stands out as Keanu is still in fullmonosyllabic mode, Fishburne is re-redeeming himself for”Biker Boyz” (did you really need the money that badly,Larry?) and Weaving is just as charming as ever as an evil MIBagent.

Monica Bellucci is even hotter in here, though sadlyunderutilized.

Special effects are nothing worth writing home about, so allthat’s left is the story. Basically, two peoples/factionscome together for a common purpose: survival. It’s executedin the best way possible for a series selling sci-fi with varyingdoses of philosophy and such.

The first film presented the Matrix and the real world asfantasy in a practical way, resulting in a charming and engagingsetup of sorts.

As the closing chapter, “Revolutions” does the same,not to mention cleaning up the mess left by the previous and nearlyindecipherable “Reloaded.”

Perhaps the best way to critique the film without giving awaytoo much would be to mention the mid-production passing of GloriaFoster. Being the Oracle, many wondered how the story could getalong, with such meticulous attention put towards creating theMatrix. Incidentally, her death is more instrumental to thestoryline and essence of the Matrix world than could ever beimagined.

It’s bitter-sweet serendipity in a science-fiction world.After having seen “The Matrix” and “The MatrixReloaded” countless times and attentively soaking in everysecond of “The Matrix Revolutions,” I wouldn’thave it any other way.