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This is why the Animatrix is great. It's divided into 9 episodes across various points in the timeline. Each episode was created by a different group, so you get 9 perspectives on the overall story.

having re-watched the original recently, one of the most striking things was how successfully they managed to create a setting that excuses practically every single convention of bad screenwriting and still works as a film.

I'd read an article about what those conventions were.

well for one, superman trope.

Neo is a 'god' in the matrix and yet movie avoids 'I'll just punch everyone, so why bother doing something clever'.

The scenes with key-maker escaping are really tense, and neo was cleverly outsmarted to be removed from the chase.

I think it would help if Reloaded and Revolutions are viewed as one film; maybe chop off a few parts here and there too.

Reloaded, the cerebral philosophical expository arc. And then Revolutions, just guns and fists a-blazin'.