The Matrix Rebounded

For a couple of hours this Wednesday, the world will be one. The Matrix Revolutions, the climax of Andy and Larry Wachowski's science-fiction trilogy launched in 1999, will premiere in major cities around the globe at precisely the same moment. The clocks will read 6 a.m. in Los Angeles, 9 a.m. in New York, 2 p.m. in London, 3 p.m. in Paris and 11 p.m. in Tokyo, but moviegoers everywhere can feel a kinship with their fellow Matricians — as if they were linked, in sacred harmony, to a giant computer brain being fed the same data. But paying for it....