Great use of surround

Rating: 9/10 (26 April 1999)

I might add that the sound for this film is first rate. I was complaining to a friend just a few days prior to seeing The Matrix that a lot of films don't know what to do with the Surround channels. There is an old-school mentality that says we mustn't be bombarded with audio data the whole time. But isn't total immersion the point?
In addition to aurally immersing us for nearly the entire movie, Dane Davis and crew made some awesome fight noises and other special sounds, without which the visual effects wouldn't have seemed quite so impressive. My favorite in particular is when Neo touches the mirror and screams; his scream is broken down, sounding as if it had been turned into a bitstream like those streaming green characters we see throughout the movie (a nod to "Tron," perhaps, where Flynn gets reduced to his component "bits.")
See it in a THX-certified theater if you can...