WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE.('The Matrix Revolutions,' 'Veronica Guerin' and 'Beyond Borders')(Movie Review)

"Not much philosophy there," a real-world philosopher, Colin McGinn, of Rutgers, said to me after a screening of "The Matrix Revolutions" last week. I hasten to add that my own unphilosophical temperament found the picture somewhat more entertaining than the second movie in the series, "The Matrix Reloaded," a noisy sleeping potion administered to the world last spring. But McGinn is right: this time, as in the second movie, the directors Larry and Andy Wachowski have made the intricacies of the original "Matrix" (the play between actual and simulated reality?) secondary to the main events of spectacle, fighting, and stunningly wooden dialogue. At its best, the picture is ...