[ from the spoiler-potential dept. ]
I just returned from seeing Matrix Reloaded. While the film is visually stunning, it did not do for me what the first one did. I believe that the next film may offer the explanation that Neo is existing within a Matrix, represented as the “real world”, which itself contains “The Matrix”. Witness the repeated references to such a concept in Neo being able to control aspects of the “Real World”, of the Architect discussing the repeated anomilies, and that Zion would have to have been built several times before for continuity to work. Either this is the big twist in Matrix Revolution or these points must be addressed in some other way. Neo is not in any coma in the traditional sense.
Jon.