So they made a movie about Jean Baudrillard's -- author of the book Simulacra and Simulation which was claimed to be an inspiration for the original trilogy -- criticism of the original trilogy?

…the most embarrassing part of the film is that the new problem posed by simulation is confused with its classical, Platonic treatment. This is a serious flaw. The radical illusion of the world is a problem faced by all great cultures, which they have solved through art and symbolization. What we have invented, in order to support this suffering, is a simulated real, which henceforth supplants the real and is its final solution, a virtual universe from which everything dangerous and negative has been expelled. And The Matrix is undeniably part of that. Everything belonging to the order of dream, utopia and phantasm is given expression, “realized.” We are in the uncut transparency. The Matrix is surely the kind of film about the matrix that the matrix would have been able to produce.

Expanded upon a bit in this review of the original trilogy given from a dissident right standpoint. I particularly like the argument that Smith is the only true rebel in the movie:

We start the series with a hopeful moment of self-actualization in the first movie, and the apparent goal of liberating all of humanity. We learn in the second movie that things don’t work that way, and that Neo is supposed to follow a path laid out for him, which he rejects in favor of his own path. And finally, in the third movie, Neo’s path converges back onto the path that he was originally supposed to follow anyway. Where, exactly, is the “radical rebellion” and “tearing down of the system” supposed to be?

The actual, full-blown “rebel” in this situation was Smith all along—in being freed from his programming, he comes to embody chaos, which is what made him a threat to the stability of the system. Had Smith succeeded in crashing the Matrix, the outcome would have been cataclysmic and radically transformative: the Machines compromise with Neo because Smith is on the verge of destroying the Machine City itself. Although most humans still connected to the Matrix would likely have died, the freed humans might have been more able to live apart from the Machines, and maybe even would have been free to grow their numbers and eventually rebuild civilization in the Real World.