[Morpheus1]

Nitram. You are very much like me; I base everything I know about the Matrix on facts, not beliefs. With that said, Neo's little destruction of the machines at the end can not and will not be explained by reloaded. That part, like you said, was meant to give the viewers disbelief in the real world. That part has too much symbolic meaning, and it goes back to the point made in the first Matrix by Morpheus "What is Real?"

I think that the outside world could be fake, or even an older Matrix. Like The Architect said, the older versions were perfect, but man didn't have a choice. In Zion does it look like Man really has a choice? There is also a bit of symbolic meaning in one of the orphans giving Neo the Spoon. Maybe they realized they can bend it.

The outside world being fake would be a cheap way to end it, but, if it's fake and inescapable then I would consider it reasonable (we live in an inescapable world as we speak). Also, it could be explained by Neo being a machine who takes human form inside Zion and the Matrix. Like the last movie in the Animatrix, Matriculation, they plugged up a robot who took human form inside.

I doubt that the wachowskis would make a bad third movie. In reloaded they have already proved that they can think very deep, the only questionable part is the ending. In this series they have made two very thrilling endings, but they were all inconclusive. They haven't proven themselves when it comes down to a real ending.