Very Good

Rating: Null/10 (8 May 1999)

It is currently May 7th, 1999, and today if you want to spend 6 bucks to see a movie you can either see The Matrix or crap. (my opinoion anyway). This was a great film. It had an unbelievable and original story, which is rare for a film driven greatly by special effects, and unlike most other sci-fi films made lately (like Armageddon), The Matrix wasn't cheesy and poorly thrown together. It was complex, and I saw it a second time so I could understand it better. The acting was surprisingly good for what the film required. There was really only one thing that let me down, and that was when Trinity in a Schwarzenegger fashion said "Dodge this" before shooting the agent. If you are being hunted by invincible computers, you're not going to be cool and calm enough to nonchelantly blurt out some witty one liner, and up until that point I was totally sucked into the film, but I didn't dwell on it, and it wasn't anything bad enough to ruin the film. Definitely Keanu Reeve's best to date, and the best thing I've seen in a theater of quite some time. 9 of 10.