APPARENTLY, THE RABBIT HOLE AINT DEEP ENOUGH!

Rating: 6/10 (4 April 2001)

I almost liked this movie, though the rest of the world liked it way too much! In either case, it won best visual fx at the academy (i thought STAR WARS:EPISODE ONE deserved it) and it won best sound fx (FIGHT CLUB should've gotten it without a doubt). The last time i checked, when someone gets kicked in the rib cage, it does NOT sound like a pillow being wipped with a recently used condom! Anyway, this movie is fairly simple; it is very easy to understand because everything is repeatedly spelled out for you. As a matter of fact, I already knew what the movie was going to be about when i first started seeing the commercials for it. And it was so predictable, everything i saw in that movie, i wasn't surprised i saw it because i knew (after seeing the first 10 minutes) that it was going to happen later! Keanu plays an average shmuck who works as a cubicle drone. He knows something is missing from his life as strange dreams echo to him from the real world. He of course uses his computer hacking counterpart named Neo to find an answer. As he gets closer, he recieves a myterious cell phone one day while at the office. It rings. A mysterious voice starts giving him instructions that would eventually lead him to the window ledge 80 stories above the street. To overcome his fears and climb down would mean that he is willing to dive into a dark, dangerous, and mysterious adventure into the unknown of reality. They should have made the rest of the movie the way that window ledge scene was written- MORE ACTION, LESS YAPPING. But why is the rest of the movie so slow moving? It treats as like we're nine-year-olds! It would've been better if they gave us few hints that we can use to figure out the theme of the movie. If i were still seven years old, I would have liked this movie a lot better, but now I'm seventeen and i've already gone way deeper down the rabbit hole than this movie has taken me. It's also formulaic- perfectly designed to get rebelious type teens to empty their wallets at the box office. It is also written based on marketability rather than art so the movie ends in a visually stunning shoot out rather than tying up lose ends or giving a satisfying ending. But what disappointed me most was the characters, they're incredibly dull. None of them caught my fascination and the acting is so weak that when Neo said "Morpheus was like a father to me", it wasn't until then that i realized that he felt this way. If the acting is any good, then we would have known that before he said it out loud. Even the Oracle lady was nothing but useless clutter on the screen. I GAVE THIS A 6/10