One forever in the books!

Rating: 9/10 (14 June 2019)

When the movie first came out, I thought to myself - here we go again with a bunch of geek wannabes all dressed in Emo!
The setting at first just seemed to be the common cops and robbers type from the early 50s it had appeared. I still love the line from the Officer in Charge to Agent Smith about jurisdictions.
It started out really slow, and sometimes I still get angry at how they made Neo into such a baby back b***h in the beginning. I mean come on - you go all the way out to the ledge just to turn yourself in? I feel that where it really started to get good was the meeting with Morpheous, and I love the blue pill/red pill reference. It is something I use myself to people to this day as to say "Hey, are you going to keep doing the same thing monotonously, or are you going to take charge and do something daringly different with your life". So it was very clever! And it was clever for Neo to discover that he was the one - not everything can be handed on a silver spoon (the funny thing I can say is a great allusion with the monk like child to Neo's meeting with the Oracle).
At the end of the day - there are a lot of hidden messages and life lessons to be picked up from this movie. I am not sure what the intentions are of the writers of it (are we ever?). However it is a movie that I feel was definitely ahead of its time when it came out and is not a disappointment by any means! Romance, action, betrayal, fantasy, it has a little bit of everything and even for the younger generations to gain some interest!
Check it out people - especially on a rainy afternoon if you have nothing better to do!