Equal to 2001 A Space Odyssey

Rating: 10/10 (26 October 2012)

A movie that stands beside 2001 A Space Odyssey (which also got a lot of negative reviews when released). Anger, fear, hope, love, laughter, tears...it's 3 hours long, and I hated to see it end, hated to leave the theater--I watched all the credits, which I don't usually do, so as not to break the spell the Wachowskis weave. This is a movie you feel with everything in you. Incredible. I had read the novel before seeing it, and the movie makes a few changes, but it has the same range of ideas and depth of emotion. How appropriate that it was released around Halloween, the season of transformation and masks. Don't judge it by these reviews, though--just see it for yourself.