Bruce Lee as avenging hacker teams up with Will Holden and shoots up some bandidos!!

Rating: Null/10 (13 November 1999)

I bet some X-generationers are going Will who?, maybe
even Bruce who?.Sorry folks, before your time. So what have we got here, a movie with guts, a film overloaded with special effects, or an
anti authority cinema verite?
I opt for the second. While the CGI effects, are the largest, possibly the most costly, maybe the best you'll ever see on celluloid; they don't maketh a movie.
It could be argued that this piece of cinema 'eye candy' is clearly targeted at the video game chomping, web addicted under 25 year old male side of the planet.
Why we have a hacker out to save the world with a renegade half dozen team, a kind of half apostle contingent. The pseudo-religious overlay is remarkably upfront and disconnected. I.e. Morpheus= moses the prophet or Joshua or John the baptist (take your pick). Neil/Neo is of cource Christ, the resurrector, the redeemer, saviour, messiah.Half way through the film I thought, 'I bet Neil gets nailed!'
When I noticed 2/3rds into the movie they were setting up for a sequel, that's the point where it all became a huge turnoff for me. That told me marketing had highjacked the project. Crass commercialism became like the Matrix itself, out to delude us by parading before us illusion of originality while the marketing execs where really the dark 'agents' hell bent on preserving this illusion and making suckers out of all of us.
The acting, well I absolutely cringed on seeing Neil's meeting with the prophet, (is that an insert from another movie).
well how about the viewing experience... a bad Bruce Lee movie caught in a time warp. My advice see Dark World, infinitely better.
rating 4