Mediocre

Rating: 2/10 (27 August 2005)

Some action scenes are entertaining. Otherwise, this movie is a waste of time. Wooden acting. Fighting scenes are too long and martial arts look tedious and unnatural. Bog standard conspiracy theory story. Old idea. The "matrix philosophy" has been treated in superior ways in dozens of earlier films and books. But I would forgive all of that if it weren't for one of the most pathetic explanations I've come across in science fiction: That humans were kept in those cubicles for generating electric power (If the machines were so clever, why didn't they just build power plants? ... and it would have blended nicely with the story if the explanation had been that the brain's computing power is utilised). Call me petty, but that ruined it for me. There is nothing worse when going to the cinema than being taken for a fool by the directors.