Animatrix: The Final Flight of the Osiris is a short computer generated prelude to The Matrix Reloaded that I will not recommend to fans of the movie, although both are the brainchildren of the same people.
The Matrix movie is a subject for philosophical discussion. A Toronto newspaper once compared it with Plato's short story The Cave in Republic. In The Matrix, computer programmer Neo is told not to believe his senses because they only betray him and his real existence is only spent in a cocoon; whereas in The Cave, people trapped underground are forced to watch shadows on the wall cast by secret puppet-masters and when one prisoner escapes from the cave, he is blinded by the daylight.
However, many of the philosophical aspects of The Matrix are overshadowed by the fights and stunts, for which Hong Kong martial arts choreographer Yuen Wo-ping spent half a year training the actors up.
It is easy for us to get lost in the 11-minute anime Osiris, which boasts high-end computer graphics and action.
Osiris, one of nine briefs in the series of Animatrix, opens with a man and a woman battling with a sword in a dojo. The story is written by the Wachowski brothers, Andy and Larry, who also directed the Matrix movies. It is no wonder the scene looks similar to the dojo scene between Neo and Morpheus in the first movie.
The difference is that the scene from Osiris is too synthetic and empty. In the fight, the man and woman try to remove each other's clothing with their weapons. Soon the audience will find that they are lovers, and the action is merely a dream which ends when the fighter realises the coming of their common foes, a group of sentry robots.